I Told You So....Or Maybe Not......
kimsland said:
Something aint right here
When these RAM threads move forward, Tedster will usually post the link to his "Upgrading RAM" tutorial. He hasn't been here yet.
When the original poster gets it in his (or her) head that they're going to do whatever they want, I no longer argue with them. I just say "go for it". If it works, no harm, no foul. If it doesn't work, I completely ignore the follow up thread.
Here, we've posted with specs that point to Gateway saying the board will support 2GBs of RAM. Someplace else says 4GB. So now, the original poster believes he(or she) knows more than Gateway. Maybe yes , maybe no.
The jump in performance from 2.0GB to 2.5GB would be negligible. And, different programs may actually be affected by the excess RAM. Who cares? Not me.
The Gateway OEM BIOS may be set up to only deal with 2GB. Maybe there's a mistake on their web page. Who cares? Not me!
I'll go back to my original opinion that 2GB is plenty for an XP 32 bit box. If it's running DDR (1), it could be time to upgrade the machine, since it (DDR) only runs at half the FSB frequency anyway, and the rest of the industry has (in the process ) moved on to DDR3.
I think it wastes time to access 4 RAM modules instead of 2 but, here I'm not certain of my source. So, I'm not sure.
With 2 matched DIMMs on board you're gold, and as to the argument that you can run more programs with more than 2 GB of RAM well, maybe, maybe not. The CPU will then (could) be the bottleneck. Who cares? Not me.
So kimsland, I'm with you on this one, but for better or worse, I'm putting my own style on the reply.:wave: