Whats more important, CPU Speed or amount of RAM?

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paigeoliver:

--- Quote from: Hoagie_one on June 10, 2003, 02:31:05 pm ---Got a working 333 k6 that I'm gonna put in a mini-cab im building. Its gonna have 512 ram though. Id like to be able to run a few of the street fighters and some neo geo games.

What do you guys think?

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I think you should try to trade 256 MB of that Ram for a K6-2 500 or 550. That combination will run a whole lot better than the 333 processor with about 300 MB of ram that will never get accessed.

Your Super 7 motherboard will most likely do 500, some go higher (some much higher), and those processors are really cheap now.

armad1ll0:
For P2 and P3 computers with Slot 1 Processors, there's an easy upgrade.
I had a Dell P3 550 that I upgraded to a Celeron 1.4 ghz. These processors are P4 based and are .13 micron. It's very fast and I love it for my ArcadePC

It only cost me $150 and some are less on ebay.
Look for a powerleap adaptor.

www.powerleap.com

JODY:
Neither. Gotta have both. It is important to realize when upgrading RAM that if you're running an older version of Windows (e.g. 95, 98) that too much will slow down the machine. PC Mag or some other computer mag did tests and found the optimum memory under 98 was just over 256MB so when I put memory in my 98 machines I stopped at 256MB. XP doesn't have that problem. Can't remember about the OS versions in between. I've got 2 Pentium II 450s and they'll run NeoGeo stuff fine and most of the old games but stuff like Bust a Move Again and Marvel versus Capcom show major frame skipping. If I was going to upgrade the CPU I'd go with a new motherboard too and get over 1Ghz. AMD Athlons are cheap.
Also, a friend of mine got a new Gateway Pentium 4 with integrated video and found that Area 51 was very slow. He upgraded his video card to a ATI and got great performance. Integrated video uses regular RAM and can slow things down substantially.

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