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Started by brettt777 , Mar 18 2004 09:07 PM

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brettt777

Posted 18 March 2004 - 09:07 PM

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i have a 2.66ghz P4, audigy 2, radeon 9600 se, 256mb of pc2700 RAM, and am running windows 98 se. why do my system resources never get any higher than 70%, even though i turn everything off? will more RAM help this? does this sound normal?

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Posted 19 March 2004 - 12:02 PM

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Don't sweat it. 70% is actually very good--you'll never get to 100% because Windows uses resources, in the case of XP--lot's of them.

Adding another 256MB of RAM would be a good investment. 512MB is optimal for Windows XP.