Windows ME RAM requirements

Collapse
X
Collapse
 
  • Page of 1
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
Previous template Next
  • ALBPM
    Super MURCer
    • Aug 1999
    • 3868
    #1

    Windows ME RAM requirements

    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

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



    Paul
    "Never interfere with the enemy when he is in the process of destroying himself"
    Tags: None
    • ayoub_ibrahim
      Super MURCer
      • Dec 1999
      • 2445
      #2
      interesting! I hope cking4@ford.com reads it as he's trying to improve his dad's computer.

        Comment

        • birdy
          MURCer
          • Nov 1999
          • 313
          #3
          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 :-)
          1st system

          Athlon AXIA Y 1Ghz @ 1.40Ghz, coolermaster hsf, Elite K7s6a, 512 MB Crucial DDR RAM, 20GB IBM 7200RPM Hard drive, Radeon 8500le 64mb, SB Audigy, 3 com 10/100NIC, 300w PSU, midi tower, FPS 1600 Surround, Belinea 17" monitor, Intellimouse explorer USB

          System 2

          Athlon TB 1.4 @ 1.5, Zalman Flower in silent mode, Elite K7S6A, 768MB DDRAM, Ati Radeon 8500le 64mb ddr, SB Audigy, 3Com 10/100NIC, 80GB IBM 7200rpm, Liteon 16 speed DVD, Lite-on 24102b CDRW, Songcheer Superwide, USB scanner, Intellimouse explorer, Microsoft keyboard, 19in iiyama Monitor, FPS1600

          system 3
          Abit ST6 RAID, Celly 1.2 @1.4 ,512MB SDRAM, Zalman Flower HSF noisey mode, ATi Radeon 8500le, SBLIVE, 3com 10/100 NIC, 80GB Seagate barracude HDD, 40GB IBM120GXP, 60GB IBM60GXP,Extra highpoint controller card, 16x Pioneer DVD, Pioneer DVR-104 DVD-RW, ATX Full tower case. 300w psu, 17in LG monitor, 20in Samsumg telly, epson stylus colour 880, 200W RMS Surround sound amp with Mission M71 Speakers.
          .

          System 4
          Elite K7S5A, Duron 1.0, 128mb sdram, Coolermaster hsf, 80GB 120GXP IBM, Liteon 16x DVD, Radeon 7200 64MB DDR, SBLIVE.

          Linksys 4 port router/firewall

          512k Cable modem. nice

            Comment

            • DosFreak
              MURCer
              • Feb 2000
              • 645
              #4
              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.
              C:\DOS
              C:\DOS\RUN
              \RUN\DOS\RUN

                Comment

                • DentyCracker
                  Super MURCer
                  • Jan 2000
                  • 2023
                  #5
                  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.
                  [size=1]D3/\/7YCR4CK3R
                  Ryzen: Asrock B450M Pro4, Ryzen 5 2600, 16GB G-Skill Ripjaws V Series DDR4 PC4-25600 RAM, 1TB Seagate SATA HD, 256GB myDigital PCIEx4 M.2 SSD, Samsung LI24T350FHNXZA 24" HDMI LED monitor, Klipsch Promedia 4.2 400, Win11
                  Home: M1 Mac Mini 8GB 256GB
                  Surgery: HP Stream 200-010 Mini Desktop,Intel Celeron 2957U Processor, 6 GB RAM, ADATA 128 GB SSD, Win 10 home ver 22H2
                  Frontdesk: Beelink T4 8GB

                    Comment

                    • Brian R.
                      Super MURCer
                      • Aug 1999
                      • 3874
                      #6
                      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.

                        Comment

                        • jackzod
                          MURCer
                          • Oct 1999
                          • 204
                          #7
                          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).]
                          Athlon64 4800+
                          Asus A8N deluxe
                          2 gig munchkin ddr 500
                          eVGA 7800 gtx 512 in SLI
                          X-Fi Fatality
                          HP w2207

                            Comment

                            Previous template Next
                            Working...