[Scottish] [OT} Ram

[Phil Deane]

Hi Folks

I am ruining Mandrake 9.1, on a p3 800MHz with 320Mb PC133 RAM.

KDE 3.1 on startup takes about 25 seconds which although doesn't sound long, 
seems to take an eternity. I know there are Wm's which load up quickly, but 
Kde is what I like.

My system rarely uses my swap drive(640MB, twice the RAM as per Linus advice), 
but I was wondering if adding more ram would speed it up any?

I have a Small amount of money, but not huge amounts, and want to make a 
faster system.

I use Windows for capturing Videos and encoding takes an age, so I thought RAM 
would help as well. A new MB and CPU would be nice but out of my price range 
for the immediate term anyhow.

Anybody any suggestions?

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Phil Deane
http://www.MiracleExpress.force9.co.uk