Subj : Re: 1gig To : Alan Cairns From : Geo. Date : Wed Apr 04 2001 11:31 am From: "Geo." Actually I'm pretty surprised at the difference so far. It seems to me one way to compensate for IDE drives that don't multitask real well is by adding more memory. I never even considered that as a balancing factor before. I really didn't expect much difference once I passed 128mb ram. Geo. "Alan Cairns" wrote in message news:3acb7b61@w3.nls.net... > I now have 604Mb on my desktop. Keeps the drive noise down! > > -- > Alan > alancairns@dccnet.com --- BBBS/NT v4.00 MP * Origin: Barktopia Gating Project http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45) .