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trmiv, dont forget that that could easily be 1 32mb and a1 64mb module.

How?

the 32mb is double sided (chips on both sides), hence 16mb PER BANK, then the 64mb module is single sided, hence that bank as 64mb.
2 DIMM slots are being used right now.

If the mobo has 3 DIMM slots, then you can just pop in another 32mb'er, but there's also a chance that you may only have 2 DIMM slots to begin with, which means you either need to:

#1. take out the 32mb you have and exchange it for a 64mb (total = 64 + 64 = 128)
#2. Take out both 32mb and 64mb sticks, and put a 128mb stick straight in there

The 128mb stick would be much better because

#1. It's likely to be higher quality than what you presently have
#2. You have upgrade space for later 🙂
 
I guess so, thx viperoni. Is that good or bad? And for some reason one stick has no brand pcb and the other one is Apacer. Damn memman should have gave me both Apacer :|
 
Viperoni: That's true, my bad. But, the solution is still the same with the super cheap price of ram right now, buy the 128MB SDRAM DIMM either PC100 or PC133 and be done with it. He'll either end up with 208MB if those are 16MB modules, or 192MB is it's a 32MB module and there is only two slots. Or then it could be 224MB if that is a 32MB module and there are three slots. Either way he's doing well in the memory department. Or just go the 64MB module route and have 128MB total.
 
Below the info I posted above, it says the following:

Memory Modules

Memory Module 1 Hyundai Electronics 7V65400DTFG-10S
9E07B704 32MB 16x(2Mx8)SDRAM PC100-
322-622 (CL3 upto 100MHz)(CL2 upto
83MHz)

Memory Module 2 Toshiba THMY6480F1BEG-80 1A02FB00
64MB 8x(8Mx8)SDRAM PC100-222-622
(CL3 upto 125MHz)(CL2 upto 100MHz)


So I'm guessing that means I only have two slots?
 


<< So I'm guessing that means I only have two slots? >>




Yes you have 2 slots Occupied at the moment,You probably have 1 or maybe 2 more Free slots available for you to put more ram into.
 
It's actually pretty hard to judge how many ram slots you have.
Dig around and Sandra may tell you how many you actually have.
 
Yeah, I was just about to say, according to this link, Crucial-G6-450, I have three slots available. I guess only two are being used. Can you really tell this just from my computer being G6-450? This site told me this, and didnt ask any info about my motherboard. Do all G6-450's have the same motherboard or something?
 
Hmmm, guys, in that link I posted above, there's several of each stick, what's the difference between these? Why does one of the 64's cost less than the 32's?
 
Ahh, you have a BX, as I expected 🙂 Anyway, the differences are CAS2 and CAS3....memory isn't my specialty, but I think it has to do with latency or something. If you get Crucial(which is an excellent choice, IMO), get the second to last on the list, 128MB, PC100. That's my recommendation. And I would actually take out the 16MB stick, as it is only 16 MB which wouldn't hurt you, and you could run at CAS2 instead of CAS3(according to the info you posted, the 16MB stick only runs at CAS3 @ 100MHz).
 
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