got a celeron 450 running winxp: how much ram should i put in it?

[AkumaX]

 

[BurnItDwn]

128 if its for grandma
256 should get you reasonable performance
512 good if you intend to multitask ... or if you plan on dual booting nsome kind of *nix distro with KDE 3
1GB+ ... you wanna run dedicated server ...

 

[bacillus]

256Mb minimum!

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

Originally posted by: bacillus
256Mb minimum!

 

[Curley]

As much as the motherboard will take.

 

[tigerwannabe]

i have a celeron 500 running xp pro with 384 mb of ram. performance is good for me...even when running multiple apps

 

[DnetMHZ]

As much as you can afford would be my suggestion.

 

[AkumaX]

thanx for the replies! right now there's 1 x 128mb, i was thinkin 2 x 128 and 1 x 256 for 512mb. or 256, since they dont need that much ram, but eh... they're paying for it. lates!

 

[ScrewFace]

You need 192 MB for Windows 98SE/ME for optimal performance and 512 MB for optimal performance in Windows 2000 Pro and Windows XP Pro.

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

Originally posted by: AkumaX
thanx for the replies! right now there's 1 x 128mb, i was thinkin 2 x 128 and 1 x 256 for 512mb. or 256, since they dont need that much ram, but eh... they're paying for it. lates!

Not a problem as long as the mainboard will properly recognize and use it. i815 chipsets will take up to 512mb, but you got to be careful of the configuration. I don't know what mainboard you have, but you should be able to look up ram configurations on the mobo's manufacturer's website.

 

[NokiaDude]

I'm running 1Gb of RAM with XP Pro. It's great because I burn things alot and during the process I notice no performance loss when doing other stuff.

 

[AkumaX]

Originally posted by: GonzoDaGr8

Originally posted by: AkumaX
thanx for the replies! right now there's 1 x 128mb, i was thinkin 2 x 128 and 1 x 256 for 512mb. or 256, since they dont need that much ram, but eh... they're paying for it. lates!

Not a problem as long as the mainboard will properly recognize and use it. i815 chipsets will take up to 512mb, but you got to be careful of the configuration. I don't know what mainboard you have, but you should be able to look up ram configurations on the mobo's manufacturer's website.

abit be6, 440bx works fine probably gonna upgrade that celeron to a 1150 or something

 

[toant103]

256