More RAM: Office Applications

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Under Windows 98, an upgrade from 64 to 128 MB RAM yields almost an 8% performance increase. An additional upgrade to 256 MB, however, yields much less - the possible additional boost is under 2%. At this point it should be noted that the SYSmark 2000 applications run individually - multitasking is therefore not in use. If you often have to work on several applications simultaneously, then having 128 MB under Windows 98 will yield a higher performance than is shown here. It follows, however, that the additional upgrade to 256MB produces the same minor performance increase in multitasking as mentioned above in relation to individual applications. The following two diagrams set out the details on the SYSmark results:

SYSmark 2000 is divided into two parts: Internet Content Creation and Office Productivity. Internet Content Creation (ICC) includes Bryce 4, Elastic Reality 3.1,

Photoshop 5.5, Premiere 5.1 as well as Windows Media Encoder 4.0. In order to measure performance for Office applications, SYSmark uses Corel Draw 9, Excel 2000, Naturally Speaking 4.0, Netscape Communicator 4.61, Paradox 9, Powerpoint 2000 and Word 2000.

The results are explained by the list of applications used for the benchmark - the ICC programs place heavier demands on the processor.


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