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More Ram, Less Speed OR Less Ram, High Speed?

Jun 4, 2005 2:00PM PDT

whats better to have. 1024 mb ram at 266 mhz or 512 mb of ram at 400 mhz?

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Jun 5, 2005 7:51AM PDT

it depends wether you are going to be running a lot of simple programs or few programs but require many calculations to be made

for example: if you are going to run many ie and microsoft office programs at one time than you should go with more ram

but if you are going to run programs that use scientific calculations then get less ram and a better processor

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More Ram, Less Speed OR Less Ram, High Speed?
Jun 7, 2005 6:31AM PDT

What kind of CPU. Are you talking front side buss speeds or memory speeds? John