Paul Pedersen

Thanks to all.

I think I'll replace the existing 512MB PC5300 with a 2GB PC6400. That will
still leave room for future expansion.



"Paul Pedersen" <nospam@no.spam> wrote in message
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> I'm setting up a new computer for a friend. It has a Sempron 3200 running
> at 1.8GHz and 512 GB RAM (shared with the video, I think) with Vista Home
> Basic (bottom of the line, I know).
>
> The processor score is 3.7, not great but acceptable. But the RAM score is
> only 2.0. Why is it so low? It's all new equipment from a computer
> superstore. I don't care about graphics for games, because there will be
> no games on this computer. But apparently something about the RAM is
> cutting overall performance by 46%!
>
> Is half a gig of ram considered inadequate these days? What can I do to
> speed up this thing?
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