Is there anything better than more RAM?

I've just upgraded my 2 main workstations at the surgery from 256Kb RAM to one at 1Gb and the other 512Kb and the speed increase is great. Programs are working quicker and Norton doesn't slow everything to a crawl. I don't know why I didn't do it sooner and all for less than £60. Is there anything better in life than more RAM (except even more RAM)?

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 7217

Are we talking about just computers here?

Andrew

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 6:03 pm Post subject:

It depends on whether you want to keep it clean or not?

Sliced bread is pretty good although if you have a Morrisons near you, their bakery is excellent.

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 7217

No Morrisons around these parts!

Back to your original question, well no really - RAM is easily the cheapest, best option computer upgrade wise

Andrew

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 6:12 pm Post subject:

I've never put so much RAM in one PC before, the most I've had before was 512Kb in my laptop and I've been really impressed. Pound for pound, it must be better than a processor upgrade.

PS I see you haven't managed to change the time yet!!

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 7217

Oh I have - you must have specified it incorrectly in your profile

Andrew

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 6:22 pm Post subject:

You mean I have to change it myself!!

/*Walks off in a huff/*

I did have it set to GMT, I guess a unix box wont update for BST itself. All changed at this end now.

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 7217

Yeah, all I can set is the time Guests see which makes sense not everyone viewing the board operates on BST

Andrew

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Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 7:08 pm Post subject:

I've used Norton for years and only started to have a problem with 2004 & 2005. On my laptop it is almost too slow and resource hungry to be any use. I will probably consider alternatives when my subscriptions run out.

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 7217

When I used Windows I used NOD32 exclusively it *is* (fact) the best AV out there, it scans so well and never let anything get by.

Andrew

NetHosted Staff Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 217

*cough* not to tell the boss hes wrong or anything but the independantly researched best is kaspersky

Kaspersky has consistantly achieved the most correct detections and removals for both obsucure and common viruses/trojans and other malware.

Its well worth investing in for both windows and unix platforms

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 7217

Not true at all - independent tests show NOD is better it's never missed one virus in some tests that are carried out every month which I now can't find (ssshh). I know for a fact it was the only one that has this record.

Not to mention a friend who had Kaspersky + about 0.5TB of disks was looking at a scan time of over a day!! NOD32 = 30 minutes for that.

Andrew

NetHosted Staff Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 217

uhm well it will take a while to scan 500GB of data... I dont see how it can be done accurately in 30 minutes.

I'll have to dig out th elink I looked at ranking kaspersky in the top3 with nod32 coming in around 10-8

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 7217

If it's cnet or about.com it really doesn't count you know that as well as me

Andrew

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