On 01/12/17 08:21 PM, Mikhail Ramendik wrote:
I know more RAM is faster. More RAM is also as expensive as the SSD. But the SSD will also speed up all things involving disk I/O, so I hope the general improvement will be no less significant than from a RAM upgrade.
Besides, upgrading RAM can be tricky. I have a 2013 motherboard, it has a couple of DDR3 DIMMs running at 1600 MHz with a 1.65V power voltage. The modern DDR3 DIMMS are all DDR3L, so specced at dual voltage 1.5/1.35V - I am not at all sure how they will coexist with 1.65V. And then I'll have to get rid of it all as it becomes obsolete eventually - the CPU is pretty basic, a Pentium G2120 - while a 250Gb SSD is unlikely to become fully obsolete for much longer.
I wish I had your problems! Like many here I don't run anything like modern equipment, not even as modern as you have. Like a few other's here I run a Dell Optiplex 755. IIR quite few others here do as well nice quad core CPU. mobo specs says it can only handle 8G of 2G DDR2 in the four slots on the mobo. There are two chassis slots for hard drives and two slots for removable devices. The problem for the hard drive is that the racking is not like most chassis, it requires a caddy, and that is Dell specific to this model and not cheap. It only uses SATA so I can't use my nifty LG DVD from my old machine :-( Another expense. And DDR2 memory costs more than DDR3 and is slower. Well, OK, DDR2 is cheaper than the PC-100 my HP firewall machine takes. But then again, the 4G DDR2 I'd need to make it a 16G machine, which I'm told by people who've done it, even if it is out of spec, will cost a LOT more. Even if the same with DDR3 would be cheaper by far. I wish I had your problems. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org