First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good

[Joel Hammer]

I have heard it claimed that no-name ram is slower than branded memory,
whatever that is. I heard this on TechTV, screensavers edition. They
gave instructions for building a $500 game machine. You might visit
their web page.

http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/?nnav

I couldn't find mention of the hardware for their game box on the web
site, however. It might be buried there somewhere. Check out their archives
section.

Joel


On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 07:36:47PM -0800, Ian Stephen wrote:
> Not exactly a Linux question, but I am going to be building a few
> low-budget Linux PC's for the family so...
> 
> Is one brand of ram as good as the next or does it make a difference
> whose ram one buys?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ian Stephen
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 16:29, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > 
> > I up'ed the memory from 125 megs to 256megs by adding some memory from
> > a computer I am throwing out. Surprising to me, it really peps the
> > machine up.
> > 
> > So, its worth the $44 bucks or whatever they are charging at your local
> > CompuUSA. I think they charge more than that if you buy it preconfiged
> > with additional memory.
> > 
> > Here is the output of free. So, it looks like the extra memory is
> > being used. (32 megs is used for video memoryh.)
> > 
> >              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> > Mem:        224484     220092       4392          0      35208     105460
> > -/+ buffers/cache:      79424     145060
> > Swap:       864500       1356     863144
> > 
> > 
> > Joel
> 
> 
> 
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