How can i maximize memory performance?

[firstone]

How can i maximize the perfomance of my memory???

I use XP home and I have 1gig of ram but it seems like its very slow after i reformat it...

 

[raybay]

Tell us more, with motherboard, hard drive, OS, age, type of memory, etc.

 

[firstone]

Intel pentium 2.8ghz
p4s800d-x
1gig of ram
xp
about 2yrs old

dont know the type of memory though...

 

[kpo6969]

Have you done any of these lately?
disk clean-up
de-frag your hard drive
system anti-virus scan
system spyware scan

 

[DelJo63]

How can i maximize the perfomance of my memory???

there's a direct correlation of running programs to memory performance.

1. reduce the number of active services to ONLY those you need
2. reduce the number of startup programs (hint: you don't need auto-update programs)
3. use hd cleanup
4. run PagDefrag to help with the pagefile.sys and the registry

I use XP home and I have 1gig of ram but it seems like its very slow after i reformat it...

totally a different question than just 'memory'.

 

[firstone]

there's a direct correlation of running programs to memory performance.

1. reduce the number of active services to ONLY those you need
2. reduce the number of startup programs (hint: you don't need auto-update programs)
3. use hd cleanup
4. run PagDefrag to help with the pagefile.sys and the registry

totally a different question than just 'memory'.

yeah i meant my ram... it "crackles" when i doing multiple things at once... it wasnt like that before i reformatted... any idea?

 

[raybay]

When memory crackles, you have a problem somwhere that must be corrected.

Usually, it is the video graphics card or port that is "crackling" and it would be worth while to use a decent quality directional microphone to help figger out from whence the sound is coming.