Can somebody explain this to me?

[Chuplayer]

The max RAM the motherboard can support is 3GB. There are three RAM slots.

The problem is that each slot can only take 512MB. That means the max RAM is actually 1.5GB? How does that make any sense?

Could I put in 1GB in each slot and see what happens? I really want to get 3GB out of this rig.

 

[Marcus Dubious]

How do you know that each of the memory slots on your mobo can only accept a maximum of 512MB memory
I haven't seen anything that supports that

 

[Alex_P]

PC 133 is rather old. I don't think they make 1 GB DIMMs of it.

-- Alex

 

[Marcus Dubious]

PC 133 is rather old. I don't think they make 1 GB DIMMs of it.

-- Alex

Then it was a guess by the mobo manufacturers, their blind hope that one day a 1GB mem chip would become worthy.

I am pretty sceptical about pc 133, had them in one of my firsties. i definately would go into a cave , rather than gert on a bigger chip at that speed

 

[j0z]

Not sure, but those are ripoff prices. You can drop by Newegg and get memory for half that amount:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220138

It seems your motherboard doesn't support DDR or DDR2... if you want to do any gaming whatsoever I believe you need a major PC upgrade.

 

[Chuplayer]

Then it was a guess by the mobo manufacturers, their blind hope that one day a 1GB mem chip would become worthy.

This is actually the best explanation I've seen so far.

And the data supporting the 512MB max is in the screenshot. It's in the upper left segment under the three RAM icons outlining what I've got in my system.

And I know the RAM is crap. I just want to squeeze as much power out of this system as I can.

 

[Marcus Dubious]

Then it was a guess by the mobo manufacturers, their blind hope that one day a 1GB mem chip would become worthy.

This is actually the best explanation I've seen so far.

And the data supporting the 512MB max is in the screenshot. It's in the upper left segment under the three RAM icons outlining what I've got in my system.

And I know the RAM is crap. I just want to squeeze as much power out of this system as I can.

Sorry for my blind assertions, note to self, read things more closely,
It is deceptive though.

Maximum "fantasy" memory capability 3072 MB, a rather specific number. Considering it's a lie.
Reminds me of the Portal cake options,
There's a lovely cake waiting for you.
Possibility of getting said cake, nil.

I'm about to use the "wishful thinking" rule of self delusion to describe my PC,
Crysis fps on an enormously huge and unfeasibly large monitor, infinite.

I like this delusional world of stuff; I can has everything I want.

BTW just looked through my PC graveyard and I haven't got anything close to that anymore, you could have had it for postage if I had any.

 

[Alex_P]

It seems like you've got a system's just a tad older than the 2.66 GHz P4 I have sitting by the side of my desk for when I need to use Windows XP. I upgraded that thing's RAM from 512 MB to 1 GB about four years ago. With a Radeon 9800, it was pretty capable of running games up until around the time I replaced it a year ago. Not Crysis or whatever, but Portal and Mount & Blade and Bloodlines and Unreal Tournament Whatever-It-Was. That was with 1 GB RAM. So, I don't think taking your box to 3 GB is going to meaningfully improve your experience with the kinds of games its CPU and graphics card can actually handle.

-- Alex

 

[Tonimata]

AAAAAAAAH COMPUTER GIBBERISH!
MY BRAINS!!!