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    P-6831 - Anyone upgrade jsut one stick of ram?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Divine_Madcat, Feb 12, 2008.

  1. Divine_Madcat

    Divine_Madcat Notebook Evangelist

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    Perhaps this is a silly idea, but has anyone tried upgrading just the 1GB stick? I ask, since you can get one 2GB stick for fairly cheap. Now, i know that it is always best to match sticks (especially OCing), but in just thinking, it should work...
     
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    Yes, it will work just fine
     
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    It will work but I don't think you will see any performance gains.
     
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    No performance gains is fine - i do alot of photoshop work, so ram is important. While 3GB on XP would be great, 3GB on Vista is no better than my 2GB desktop... thus, i just want to add a bit more.
     
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    yeah I've got a second 2gig stick of G.skill on the way, and I'll be using Vista Ultimate 64
     
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    Are you using Vista64? Vista32 won't recognize more than 3 GBs.
     
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    hydra Breaks Laptops

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    I'm running CS3 just fine, which has a 512Meg ram requirement. CS2 on XP always had a 20 second start up on my old XP machine.

    Are you getting slow response or errors?
     
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    Divine_Madcat Notebook Evangelist

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    Well, it will with PAE, so i am not concerned.

    I haven't tried CS3 on my laptop yet, but I can speak to my desktop experience. I shoot a 12MP dSLR, and shoot in RAW. When PS gets involved, it is getting a 12MP 16bit tiff; needless to say, this will cause PS to take up several hundreds of megs (which annoyingly does not get freed until i close CS3; if i open another tiff, i chews even more ram); add in the fact that the RAW converter with one or two files open also takes several hundred megs, I have commonly run out of all my paging room. So, I am just looking for the most ram i can physically get, so i can do things like a resize without running out of all my room..
     
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  9. hydra

    hydra Breaks Laptops

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    OK. I'm shooting raw with my dinky C8080. Yes, this chews up lots of ram. I hope your extra 1Gig helps you out. Or at least try a different work flow.

    I used to run PS1 on my 512k Mac. Needless to say I'm thrilled with the newer machines :)

    Post back when you get a chance.
     
    hydra, Feb 12, 2008
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