Old PC memory - need more

[dagger 10]

Hi

 

my daughters old celeron desktop pc needs alot more memory, currently has 256mb - which is just so little by todays standards -

 

Ideally i need to replace this and put in 2 sticks of 512mb PC2100

 

Does anyone have any going spare

 

Thanks guys

[Ghozer 112]

Got 1gb of pc3200 i think

[anywebsite 10]

A Celeron with 256mb ram, I'd guess this thing is over 10 years old, it isn't going to be up to much no matter how much ram you put in it.

[fiesta 10]

Got 1gb of pc3200 i think

 

ill lay a bet the pc woudnt support 1gb stick if its as old as it sounds bet 2x512mb sticks is the max it supports

[Love2print 10]

You can buy it online, first site to come up on Google: http://www.amazon.co.uk/ByteStor-512MB-PC2100-266MHz-Desktops/dp/B00025E07C

[nubile 10]

If you go to Crucials website you can scan your system and it'll tell you how much ram you can run. !

[alchresearch 214]

A Celeron with 256mb ram, I'd guess this thing is over 10 years old, it isn't going to be up to much no matter how much ram you put in it.

 

Not necessarily. I've seen some five year old Celeron 2.7's which came with 512Mb of RAM as standard. Up it to 2Gb and it flies.

 

I'd hazard a guess that the mobo can only take PC2100 or PC2700 though.

[Ghozer 112]

Not necessarily. I've seen some five year old Celeron 2.7's which came with 512Mb of RAM as standard. Up it to 2Gb and it flies.

 

I'd hazard a guess that the mobo can only take PC2100 or PC2700 though.

 

It will take 3200, but will just run at 21/2700 speed!

[anywebsite 10]

Not necessarily. I've seen some five year old Celeron 2.7's which came with 512Mb of RAM as standard. Up it to 2Gb and it flies.

 

I'd hazard a guess that the mobo can only take PC2100 or PC2700 though.

 

PC2100 indicates that it's one of the early Pentium 4 based Celerons, released in 2002. In June 2004 they had a new generation of Celerons with improved performance & that supported higher memory & bus speeds. So it's going to be at least 7 years old, more likely 8 or 9 & using a processor generation released nearly 10 years ago - which was a particularly bad generation for Intel, with crippled performance (that's what Celeron means) & other parts that were cheapest possible at the time.

 

They run like real dogs, not really up to browsing a lot of modern websites (especially if they use a lot of javascript & flash), never mind trying to run modern software. It'll use a fair bit of power too, being based on those old Pentium 4s. It's going to have poor integrated graphics sharing the ram (and limited ram bandwidth) slowing it down more. Slow small hard disk.

 

If somebody will give you a gigabyte for free, then take it & see how it runs, but 1gb ddr is nearly £20 to buy new, it isn't really worth spending money on, you'll still have a really slow PC, it wont be as slow, but it'll still be frustrating.

Edited January 20, 2012 by anywebsite

[alchresearch 214]

It will take 3200, but will just run at 21/2700 speed!

 

I had an P4 2.8 in an ASUS mobo that wouldn't take anything beyond 2700.

[dagger 10]

I'd hazard a guess that the mobo can only take PC2100 or PC2700 though.

 

 

 

That's correct

[dagger 10]

If you go to Crucials website you can scan your system and it'll tell you how much ram you can run. !

 

 

 

Done that Bud - MAX is 2 x 512mb