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Hi:



I know that this is a hardware question however it involves VS 2005

which I use to develop web apps in C#.



My machine is Windows XP with 512mb of RAM. I recently upgraded it from

256mb and the performance is fantastic!



My question is if I upgraded it again (say to 1GB) would I have another

significant performance increase? (I could take it as high as 4GB).



If anyone has a recommendation I would greatly appreciate it.



Thanks,



Fred


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You'll hit a diminishing return as you keep upgrading. I've found my sweet

spot to be 1gb, but that has more to do with gaming than development.



The overall answer is that it depends. Memory might not be your bottleneck

anymore. Say you were running on a P100 (exageration). You could upgrade

to 10000Gb and your CPU would still be limiting the overall performance of

your system. An old hard drive could also be an issue.



Frankly, if you find developing w/512 is reasonable (ie, you don't find

yourself thinking how slow it is all the time) I say stick with it. Ram is

so cheap though, it's no big deal. I know I find VS.Net 2005 still pretty

slow despite the claims of how 80% faster it was going to be...



Karl



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"Fred Nelson" <fred@smartybird.com>wrote in message



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Fred,



I run a lot of applications at the same time and I have both a desktop and a

laptop that each have 1gig of memory. You will always have increased

performance with more memory, but seeing that performance increase will

mostly depend on how many applications you run at the same time.



The more memory you have the less data needs to be stored on the hard drive

in the page file. But if you aren't using all your memory now because you

only keep one or two applications running at a time then I doubt you'd see

much more performance gain. However if, like me, you are running a

development environment where your machine is running VS2005, SQL Server,

and IIS, there are quite a few applications running already and then most of

us run Outlook, Word, A graphic editor like fireworks and/or photoshop, plus

any number of other programs at the same time. If that's the case with you

getting to 1gig would probably give you even better performance.



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"Fred Nelson" <fred@smartybird.com>wrote in message



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