Too much ram?

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I'm using a second PC at the moment. It's a Compaq Deskpro EN Pentium III 866mhz proccesor. Also has a Geforce MX 4000. Now, before any of you freak out saying it's a bad computer, keep in mind it's not a gaming PC. This PC will only be used for internet, music, POSSIBLY video, and chat/IM. No games. No graphic intensive stuff, nothing. I recently installed 512mb of ram onto this machine, and I'm wondering if it's too much for the PC to handle. I've heard cases of where some people install too much ram onto a pc with not alot of proccesor power, and in some cases makes the PC slower. Do you guys think I should keep the 512 on here? Or downgrade to 256? I want the best speeds possible. Thank you.
 
512 MB for sure...that's not even too slow of a processor, comparing to some dated computers friends have. One is a laptop, 100 MHz P1...humoursly as it is...

Anyhow, no way that's too much for yours!
 
Heaps of ram wont slow the computer down unless there is a bug where if all slots are populated it slows the bus but i havnt heard that happening on P3's.

512mb is fine for what you are doing, it isnt too much. If you put it up to 1gb it wouldnt degrade performance but it probably wouldnt increase it much either.

If you downgrade back to 256mb you probably would see a bit of performance decrease when you are multitasking with a lot of stuff open.

Leave it how it is.
 
512 is the sweet spot with Pentium 3's. I'm using one right now that has 512mb of ram and it runs strong. Keep it where it is.

Ryan
 
Or if you are running XP you can downgrade to Win 2000 and gain back a bit of resources. Windows 2000 and Windows XP are basically the same but XP has the flasy themes etc.
 
Allright, so I installed the 512 last night. Now the computer seems to boot up super slow. Takes 5-10 min before it's fully functioning and I can open up programs. I'll click on a program as soon as the computer boots up, and I'll see it pop up about 5-10 min later. Keep in mind the computer has a 10 gig HD. I recently installed the neccesary programs such as AD-AWARE, SPY-SWEEPER, AND AVG ANTIVIRUS. Aswell as my sister's media(this computer is really hers, I just want to be a nice brother and make it run as fast as possible) which leaves me with about 4 gigs of space. We're going to upgrade later, that's for sure. But not now. Anyway, I don't know if this sudden slow boot-up/performance is because of the new ram, or because of the new programs. I somehow don't see it being the program since before I installed the new programs, I was already at 4.5 gigs. After I installed the programs I'm now at 4.2 gigs. Not much of a difference. Anyway, I really need some help guys, thanks!
 
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