BULLSHIT!

If you have 512 megs of RAM and the most resource intensive things you do
only use say under 400 megs (quite realistic for most users) adding 512 Meg
more of RAM will have zero functional effect!  Increasing memory beyond 512
megs of RAM on the vast majority of workstation and home users PC's garners
ZERO improvement.

If you system has enough RAM (Generally between 256 and 512 meg) to not need
to use the hard drive for virtual memory, more memory absolutely WILL NOT
make your system faster!

Carrying 10 spare tires that you will never use around in your car is silly,
so is loading you computer up with more memory than it can ever use.

To the original poster, It is highly unlikely that anything you do on your
computer consumes all of your 512 megs of RAM, therefore, it is just as
unlikely that you could detect any improvement at all from adding more RAM.

"DD" <ddgamer@cogeco.ca> wrote in message
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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?