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trying to max out an old P2
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Posted by: pdnielsen
Yes, you read that correctly. I recently have given one of my college friends my Sempron 2200 stuff and upgraded my system to an Athlon 3800 dual core. He gave me his Gateway 2000 with 384 megabytes of memory in it in return. I have gotten mixed reports on trying to find out if the 3 slots can take any greater than 128 megs a piece. Crucial's PC scanner says it can, but they have no chips larger than 128 for it and some other websites I've tried list the particular model as only taking up to 128 megabyte chips. I can't seem to locate the model # and manufacturer of the mobo. Anyone have any suggestions? I want to upgrade this if possible to give to one of my sisters. She doesn't need anything particularly fast because just about anything would be an improvement over a 386!
Posted by: goranpaa
Try SIS Sandra or Everest Home. Or just open the case and see if there is any label on the mobo?
Newegg, probably have suitable RAM.
Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
www.crucial.com is a great place to look. Input the Gateway model number in its search.
Really it should perform well with that amount of memory using Windows 98 or a lightweight Linux distro. More memory I don't think will benifit you much considering the system will not likely be running big memory intensive programs on it. A program that needs more than that will also probably need a better processor or graphics card.
There are exceptions though as it depends on what she will use it for.
Posted by: pdnielsen
Crucial was the place that said it can take larger chips but didn't have larger than 128 MB per chip available. I've tried running Sandra already thanks to goranpaa's suggesting it in other threads to people who've had cooling problems and so on. I used it 6 years ago on an old Pentium S I had and I had forgotten all about it. Thanks for the reminder, but I can't remember which module within Sandra to run to determine how much (if any) for memory it can take. In the meantime I have one of the side panels off until I get larger than an 8 gig hard drive for it.
The Crucial scanner partly IDed the board, but no actual model number came up. The sites I've tried so far have listed 350 megabyte boards by Intel (it turns out it is an actual Intel board) and even 450, but they don't list the 400. The models it does list also contain 1 more memory slot, so I am not sure how much I should take the information they give at face value.
Posted by: pdnielsen
P.S. By the way, I'm not even sure if it's the original board that came with it or a replacement. My friend got it for free, just like I did my long gone Pentium S. That's why I need to be able to scan the drive using online scanners. I just don't want to pay a 15% restocking fee to Newegg if I can avoid it!
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