MOBO RAM Capacity?

[Elad]

I have a Compaq Presario 5000 Series 5310US and I went to Crucial.com to check out a stick of 256 b/c i know XP is a mem hog and i would like more ram that would take me to 512. I went to Crucial.com and went into the lil search thing and found my exact model and it said max capacity 512 and i was why couldnt I put in two 512s to give me a lil over a gig, or why couldnt I put in a 512, and a 256 whats the reason??

and why have RAM prices shot back up, i was at Bestbuy with a friend and we bought his deal a 128meg upgrade of PNY PC133 RAM for 15 bucks after rebate now its like 30-40$ Whats the Deal????

[iisbob]

First off, Xp is not a " hog ", it has all the nice shiny new features the average user has whined for-and you can't have all those services running without some cost.

XP is based on the NT kernel-which is designed to handle memory better than the old 95 kernel. It takes more memory to properly run XP because of the above mentioned extra's. Not because it has a problem.

As for our motherboard limitation, that comes built from the manufacturer like that-if the onboard memory controller is limited to 512MB's-then that's all you can run, if you try to put in more it'll either not boot or contiously crash.

As for the memory prices rising; that's simple supply & demand-last year the market was flooded with memory from manufactureres who thought there'd be more of a demand, since the demand has gone down-the prices have gonme back up. it's pretty volitile market. the prices are liable to drop again next month, never can tell.





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iisbob

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