rmay635703 wrote on 2023-09-20, 02:55:
One of my old super 7 boards had 768mb
Unofficially I think it would go full 1.5gb as it did support 512mb dimms although at the time I only had one.
If I had to guess 7 would run better with more ram
It would definitely help a ton. At idle, on a stock 7 Pro SP1 install, I'm using about 260 MB here and 2-3% CPU usage (if you don't include what CPU taskmgr.exe is using itself).
A couple of programs running on top of that could have the 512 MB maxed out pretty easily. I need to disable unnecessary services, but I think much of it is just the kernel, under the hood, is more demanding.
Sphere478 wrote on 2023-09-20, 03:06:It’s possible, but even a k6-3+ is horribly bogged down by 7’s bloat. […]
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It’s possible, but even a k6-3+ is horribly bogged down by 7’s bloat.
On 256mb 7 was able to memory manage down to I think like 120mb of ram idle if I recall. But yea, I think you are correct in that it would enjoy more ram to stretch its legs into.
Really, 586 stuff just needs to stick to 9x/ME if you want good responsiveness. Honestly it’s impressive how much faster even windows is under those processors if you stay with 9x/ME
I have a dual 233mmx setup that I’m gonna try 2k on because I wanna see how much better I can get games to run with the lighter windows footprint. Too bad there was never a smp 9x/me variant.
I'm pretty happy with Windows 2000 performance even on high end Pentium MMX chips. 200-233 MHz handles it pretty well. I'm running 2k server on a P200 MMX OC'd to 225 (using server so I have terminal services) and it even plays games pretty well.
XP is where it starts to feel a little bloaty to me on a socket 7.
Let us know how it runs on your dual 233. 😀
That might even be good with XP honestly.