Comments on: For RAM addicts: FreeRAM XP Pro

By: minhtung

minhtung — Tue, 22 May 2007 01:38:01 +0000

Freeram Xp pro is very wonderfull.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 20:38:18 +0000

Deathventure, it depends. If we're talking about desktop computers, CPU power is very seldom an issue here. The only desktop apps I can think of that need CPU power are games and video/graphics editing software.The average office PC doesn’t need much CPU power. We just replaced 250 office PCs. I think, we bought them more or less 5 years ago. Each PC had a 450 Mhz CPU and 256 MB RAM. The PCs were so slow that the people could hardly work with them. It never was a CPU issue. I guess, the 450 Mhz CPU would have been fine for the next 2 or 3 years. The point is that most desktop applications get fatter over the years because its GUIs get more intricate. These new GUIs need RAM not CPU power.

By: Doobs

Doobs — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:39:09 +0000

On what planet is 512mb ram STILL more than adequate for most circumstances??

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:15:46 +0000

Deathventure, Id be careful about what you say about Ram. Mike seems to have a very fond affinity for his ram. Maybe he’s pullin a Freddy Mercury and gettin fresh with his M.B. & Dimm. Be Careful he might try to boil youre modem!

By: Deathventure

Deathventure — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:45:08 +0000

This may have been true before, but not really anymore. The reason for slowness is overall resource usage. Although it include the amount of ram, it also includes the amount of cpu usage going to certain applications. If a great deal of cpu usage is up, clearing up ram won’t do anything. Most of the time, the cpu usage can be boiled down to background applications not needed, bloatware, and adware/spyware. Also, the average pc user has 512 megs of ram in their pc which is more than adequate for most instances.