Re: Is my Acrobat up to speed

[Brian Bertrand <bertran -dot- de -dot- st -dot- jean -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Honestly you will be far better off running two sticks of the same size and
speed than running one big one and one small one.  Make certain that any ram
you buy runs at the same speed (MHz) as any RAM that you currently have and
intend to keep using, otherwise the faster RAM will burn itself out trying
to run at the slower speed (had this happen to a friend of mine who didn't
check this first).

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Rick_Bishop <rickbishop -at- austin -dot- rr -dot- com>wrote:

> David:  You need RAM!  Drop in a 2GB stick to see a remarkable improvement.
> Be sure you put it in the primary bank and move your 1GB stick to the other
> slot. I recently made a pdf of a Word file that was 1152 pages with 184
> embedded graphics averaging 40k and 300+ tables. It took under a minute on
> my 64-bit Windows 7 Dell XPS 8100 i7-870 with 8MB L3 cache and 8GB RAM,
> dual
> 750GB SATA 2.0 drives with RAID 0.
> What I really like about this machine is that it is sooo quiet you can
> barely tell its running. It sits on top of my desk so that's important to
> me.
> Rick
>
> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:26:26 +0100
> From: "David Harrison (PMS)" <dharrison -at- moldmasters -dot- com>
> To: "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
> Subject: Is my Acrobat up to speed?
> ===============
> Hi All
>
> I'm being asked to justify my request for computer/software upgrade so I am
> hoping my colleagues out there can give me an idea about whether my
> creation
> of pdf files is tardy.
>
> I'm running Win XP (SP3) on a 3.4Ghz machine with 1 Mb RAM.  Applications
> are MS Word 2003 and Acrobat 8. All 32-bit of course
>
> My document is 123 pages and it has 264 linked .png images all with an
> average size of 70-80 Kb.
> Acrobat is set Basic standard with no bookmarks or links, no Word cross-ref
> features and no heading bookmarks.
>
> And this takes 7min 32 sec from clicking [Start] to seeing new opened pdf
> file.
> <snip>
> David
>
>
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