Increasing memory always makes your system faster. Whether it will speed
SETI up on your computer or not depends on what you do with your computer.
On my P3-1GHz laptop, which has 512MB of RAM, SETI normally consumes 99% of
my CPU cycles, but only 16MB or so of RAM.

If your computer is heavily used, upgrading to 1GB will definitely increase
your overall performance, because you are giving the whole machine more
breathing room, but SETI uses so little RAM that the effect will probably
not be very significant, unless your idea of "heavily used" is
simultaneously calculating pi to 1 million decimal places and playing Unreal
Tournament 2003 or DOOM 3 (is that out yet?)

All in all, a memory upgrade will probably be worth it to you, but it's not
going to turn your Celery into a Cray and lob you to the top of the SETI
ranking ladder :)

"john czarnuszewicz" <jaczar@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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improve speed of calcs in an XPhome edition Celeron 2.4G cpu?