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>I placed an order today for D/NS Deluxe 2.0, at the bargain (?) price of
>$395. My understanding is that, since my purchase will occur before
>7/31/98, I will receive a free upgrade to D/NS Professional 3.0. Most
>amazingly of all, the vendor is one of the few vendors on the US Govt.
>purchasing program which I am generally required to use. Hopefully, if all
>goes well, I'll have D/NS Pro in-hand within a few weeks.
>
>I currently have a single 128MB DIMM on my Gateway Pentium II (233) system.
> I am unable/unwilling to run "lean and mean" enough to have only a handful
>of programs running, and I usually boot with about 90% free resources.
>While running DragonDictate 3.0 and D/NS Personal 1.0, and having started
>and stopped a number of programs for a few hours (notably IE 3.0 and
>Netscape 4.0), I can frequently drop to ~50% free resources, and my system
>drags.
By "free resources" do you mean "free RAM"? Or do you mean RAM plus swap
space? If you have 50% free RAM, there is no reason your P-II 233 should
"drag"! If you have used up all your free RAM and are down to virtual
memory (disk used as "RAM"), then you definitely need more RAM. You will
notice the disk thrashing. However, with a 128MB SDRAM board, I question
what you are doing that would use it all up? Are you running Win95 or
WinNT? If NT, look at the Task Manager->Performance Tab--Physical Memory
box. That will tell you whether you need more RAM or not.
>Am I likely to realize much benefit by adding another 128MB DIMM
>(especially in light of the additional memory requirements of D/NS 3.0)?
>
>Also, for the hardware gurus out there, does anyone have experience adding
>memory to Gateway systems? They charge $400 for a 128MB DIMM, but the
>street price is <$200, even with my Govt. purchasing constraints. Is there
>anything which I should watch out for (espec. w/regard to compatibility)?
>PC66 memory will be fine for this LX-based system.
If the Gateway uses a LX chipset, I believe it supports normal SDRAM
"boards". The non-PC100 SDRAMs are usually 10nsec chips, so they should
work great in an LX board and actually *may* work in a BX board at 100MHz.
I believe the street price is around $135.
Regards, Jim Green
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