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texasboy:
Have read through several articles where exceeding ram limits on your PC will actually cause it to slow down as the processor has more area to cover etc.
Today I removed my 2x128mb sticks and installed one 512mb. Instant difference in speed and data searches. This is on the old family PC HP710  1.3GHZ.
Running info from HP and others the recommended ram is indeed 512mb. Most things in this world have a safe working load (SWL) and earlier I remember that (maybe Everest scan) a figure of 650mb was maximum supported. Yes I realise that manufacturers specs are to keep us safe and simple.My question is if I put back one stick of 128mb in the empty slot bring my total ram to 640mb will this  in fact help further?
cheers

Quantum:
My mate downstairs runs 1GB, I run 2GB, my housemate I built a computer for has 3GBs and someone else in my society has 4GBs. None of us have ever noticed a slow down when installing more RAM.

Furthermore, I've noticed signficant improvements in the server we run downstairs when either installing more RAM or faster RAM.

Quantum:
For a bit of clarification, RAM does have a certain amount of latency, but it is measured in the nanoseconds. Usually there are a bunch of numbers after the amount and speed of a ram when you but it, something like 5-5-5-12, these tell you the latency, the lower the better.

texasboy:
Many thanks for the input Quantum.
Carefully installed one 0f the 128mb sticks. On boot up it showed the usual windows error  due to hardware or other conflicts. Tried last good config ,tried starting normally. It boots up to the end of the winxp logo  run and then screen goes blank.Tried switching to the other spare stick and same thing happened.
Removed stick and left 512mb one in and as you can see its back to normal
Maybe there is a limit on this board? The only other question would be,if the different sticks are compatable with each other?
128mb by Implex
128mb by PNY europe
512mb by Kingston
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial122.html  Some good info here.

any thoughts
cheers

Quantum:
RAM is a complicated thing, also from my experience of computers the peice of hardware that will fail most. Some mobos are very good and accept all sorts of different brands of RAM, others do not. Fraid the best I can advise is to run the most possible RAM that actually works.

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