Windows ME RAM requirements

[ALBPM]

Here's an artical from Crucial regarding RAM requirements for Windows ME.

By the way the Crucial PC133 7E is on sale for $91.79/128MB DIMM

http://www.crucial.com/library/WindowsME_RAM.asp


Paul

[ayoub_ibrahim]

interesting! I hope cking4@ford.com reads it as he's trying to improve his dad's computer.

[birdy]

It seems to me that no matter how much ram you have you should leave Me alone if their results are nything to go by. One thing they dont explain though is why win98 se actually gets slower once you add more than 256mb of RAM and Me suddenly gets a real boost.

Could it be that the author is just trying to sell more ram?

I had a look at their results from the W2k benchmarks aswell and found that, contrary to what was written, after you go above 128mb even with w2k the benefits are minimal to say the least.

It could be that the difference between 128 and 256mb is greater, as the author states, but the benchmark results shown here say otherwise. It could be that the winstone benchmark just doesnt use the full 128 so adding more makes no difference.

thas wot i fink anyway :-)

[DosFreak]

Trust me. You want at least 128m in Windows 2000 for anything....even desktop work. For instance currently I have 2 IE windows, Norton Antivirus Corporate, CD Copy, and DirectCD open. Total Memory usage=140m and heck that's with barely anything loaded.

If you wanna game without alot of disk swapping go for 192-256m in 2000. That's a fact and you heard it right here from DosFreak.

[DentyCracker]

DOSFreak is right. You want at least 128 MB with win2k. I am running with 384 at the moment and both win2k and Me appreciate it.

[Brian R.]

Don't ask Crucial how much RAM to use. Ask someone who doesn't have something to gain. I doubt WinME needs any more RAM than Win98. None of my computers have shown any noticable difference when upgrading. If anything, WinME seems to be faster than Win98. If you do multimedia, all bets are off.

[jackzod]

Here I've noticed that Win ME seems to eat more memory (at least in my rig).

One thing to notice, I had a nasty bug causing a memory leak in Win ME, caused by the auto-restore option, where all my memory (256 meg) was slowly used (doing nothing) and after, Win ME kept accessing my HD every 2 second till the system stall. After I removed the auto-restore, no more problem, so that might explain why some people find Win Me more memory hungry.

[This message has been edited by jackzod (edited 12 November 2000).]