RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-11 Thread Adrian Lynch
he label on them. What you've run across is actually the best reason to learn about hardware, and build your own system. -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay > > -Original Message- > From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 11 Septe

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
run across is actually the best reason to learn about hardware, and build your own system. -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay > > -Original Message- > From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 11 September 2001 14:24 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-11 Thread Adrian Lynch
1 14:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough? On Tuesday 11 September 2001 04:47 am, Adrian Lynch escribió: > Speaking of RAM, I hope nobody minds me slating a PC company, but it > needs to be said. I bought a PC from Evesham a while back, it should > have co

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 04:47 am, Adrian Lynch escribió: > Speaking of RAM, I hope nobody minds me slating a PC company, but it > needs to be said. I bought a PC from Evesham a while back, it should > have come with 128Mb PC133 SDRAM, just opened it up lastnight, and > what do I find? Two 64M

RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-11 Thread Lin
cient for this sort of stuff?? > > > rgsd > > Frank > > > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brandon Caudle > Sent: Tuesday, 11 September 2001 7:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: R

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-11 Thread s
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 04:47 am, Adrian Lynch wrote: > Speaking of RAM, I hope nobody minds me slating a PC company, but it needs > to be said. I bought a PC from Evesham a while back, it should have come > with 128Mb PC133 SDRAM, just opened it up lastnight, and what do I find? > Two 64Mb

RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-11 Thread Franki
audle Sent: Tuesday, 11 September 2001 7:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough? If you talking about how much ram is necessary, I feel there is never enough, I have 768meg of PC133, and Suse Still uses 400meg of swap. With 200 days+ up time its a little excusab

RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-11 Thread Brandon Caudle
If you talking about how much ram is necessary, I feel there is never enough, I have 768meg of PC133, and Suse Still uses 400meg of swap. With 200 days+ up time its a little excusable, but if your building a server, that has a required uptime, Get the max you can afford! ~Brandon Caudle >Ad

RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-11 Thread Adrian Lynch
Speaking of RAM, I hope nobody minds me slating a PC company, but it needs to be said. I bought a PC from Evesham a while back, it should have come with 128Mb PC133 SDRAM, just opened it up lastnight, and what do I find? Two 64Mb chips, one PC133 the other PC100. Not a happy bunny, see >> :o(

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-10 Thread markie
Warren, chances are that those not so young boxes of yours run with 133 Mhz memory like my old pentium 75 does. Over here (Belgium) is 133Mhz memory cheaper than 100Mhz. Marc Adrian Lynch wrote: > Sorry about the lateness of this post, but £30 buys you 256Mb of SDRAM and > even DDR! Whats the

RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-10 Thread Adrian Lynch
I wish I had read the other answers before sending that last one. Sorry :o( -Original Message- From: Warren Post [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 September 2001 04:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough? I will be installing LM8.0 on two PCs as soon as I f

RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-10 Thread Adrian Lynch
Sorry about the lateness of this post, but £30 buys you 256Mb of SDRAM and even DDR! Whats the problem? Unless of course you're after some older memory type! -Original Message- From: Warren Post [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 September 2001 04:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbi

RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-06 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
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RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-06 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough? | | |On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 09:54, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: |> That one is right up there with memorable sayings from CEO's... |> |> Another of my favorites was DEC's CEO saying that no one would ever |> have or toler

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-05 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
he auditorium was being rendered in _real-time_ by a GeForce 3 in a Mac. Simply amazing. > -JMS > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > |-Original Message- > |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Sridhar > |Dhanapalan > |Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 8

RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-05 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
D]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough? | | |Perhaps you mean this little quote: | |"640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981 | |On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:21, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: |> Didn't someone once say that 640K of Ram was more than

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-05 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
Well said. Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, etharp wrote: > "enough RAM" and "Enough Money" are myths. they do not really exist, you > always want more. > > On Tuesday 04 September 2001 17:08, Charles Punch wrote: > > "Arthur H. Jo

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-05 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
|-Original Message- > |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of etharp > |Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 7:00 AM > |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Charles Punch; > |[EMAIL PROTECTED] > |Subject: Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough? > | >

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-05 Thread Paul
> On 05 Sep 2001 14:08:13 +0200, Robert MacLean wrote: > > I think so.If I remember right they work for Microsoft now on > > something called Windows Memory Management ;) > > > > > Didn't someone once say that 640K of Ram was more than anyone would > > ever > > > need? > > The infamous Bill

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-05 Thread etharp
"enough RAM" and "Enough Money" are myths. they do not really exist, you always want more. On Tuesday 04 September 2001 17:08, Charles Punch wrote: > "Arthur H. Johnson II" wrote: > > I would recommend 128 Megs. You may be able to get away with 64 on the > > k5. > > > > Arthur H. Johnson II > >

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-04 Thread Charles Punch
"Arthur H. Johnson II" wrote: > > I would recommend 128 Megs. You may be able to get away with 64 on the > k5. > > Arthur H. Johnson II > On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Warren Post wrote: > > > I will be installing LM8.0 on two PCs as soon as I finish downloading > > it. I know I need to get more RAM, b

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-04 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
For that price you can migrate to Duron! Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Matt Greer wrote: > on 9/4/01 11:18 AM, Mark Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Warren, I know we are all on a budget but RAM is dirt cheap right now.

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-04 Thread Matt Greer
on 9/4/01 11:18 AM, Mark Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Warren, I know we are all on a budget but RAM is dirt cheap right now... you > can get a 256MB for about $33 now... That's true for RAM intended for recent computers. But if a computer uses SIMMs and such, it's not so cheap. A 128MB

RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-04 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
stuff... > http://www.microchipcomputers.com/ > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Arthur H. Johnson II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 11:10 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough? > &

RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-04 Thread Mark Johnson
son II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 11:10 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough? > > > > I would recommend 128 Megs. You may be able to get away with > 64 on the > k5. > > Arthur H. Johnson

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-04 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
I would recommend 128 Megs. You may be able to get away with 64 on the k5. Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Warren Post wrote: > I will be installing LM8.0 on two PCs as soon as I finish downloading > it. I know I need to get more

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-04 Thread Matt Greer
on 9/3/01 10:13 PM, Warren Post at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I will be installing LM8.0 on two PCs as soon as I finish downloading > it. I know I need to get more RAM, but how much is enough? > > Box 1 is a Celeron 366 MHz with 32 MB, box 2 is a K5 100 MHz with 16 MB. > Both will be used for pu

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-04 Thread Robert MacLean
It will run on 32 Megs (you'll just need a big swap partition) I suggest a minimum of 64 Megs or if you can get more 128 Megs. I have 384Megs and it is perfect, it virtually never uses the swap (and if it does it uses no more than 20Megs) so everything is fast. HTH Robert MacLean - Original