06.22.06
New RAM Success
After that last batch of RAM, I was worried that my motherboard wasn’t going to support the full speed it was supposed to. But this new Corsair XMS stuff is working just dandy. Same speed as the other stuff (PC3200/400mhz). My co-worker is the one who talked me into trying the higher end stuff. Never had a problem with the normal Crucial before, but now I am definitely sold. I ran 2gb of Crucial for a while, when it wasn’t crashing I thought my computer ran much better. Especially with games. Now I’m running 2gb of this Corsair stuff and I am noticing a significant difference over the 2gb of Crucial. This stuff is damn fast. Cranked City of Heroes up to max graphics and ran around town with Super Speed. Normally, even with the 2gb Crucial, it would start cranking pretty heftily. You just move so fast and they have so many people and objects in a town. With this new stuff, not even the slightest pause. Don’t think I have ever seen this game run so smooth.
Windows is still a pile and demands 1.5gb for page file. I had it set to 1gb, but I guess it was doing a “give or take 500mb”. So I set it to 512mb. Still uses 1.5gb even though my RAM isn’t even close to being all used up. It’s looking like a re-install will happen at some point, but at least I can function until then. And I’ll be all the happier with this RAM and a working Windows. If that’s even possible anyway. Maybe this time around I wont apply a single update. Those are what seem to keep hosing my install. I’ll do SP1 and stop there.