basicly yea, limited by your mobo.
And memory controller ... lots of motherboards will allow you to physically install four 1GB dimms but the memory controller will only register 3.5GB of that
i use my computer all the time and i'm using only 3% of my 256mb
You're only using 8MB of RAM? That's just "slightly" unbelievable
There is no such thing as too much ram or tomany drive bays
Sure there is. Here's an obscure example: suppose you're processing some audio files and the absolute most memory you will ever
ever use is 700GB. Now your motherboard has 3 DIMM slots and doesnt support dual channel. Now if you go an install three sticks of 512MB you're going to see less performance than if you only had two sticks.
This is because the memory is downclocked when the slots are maxxed
u can only have as much ram a ur borad alows u to
And memory controller ....
the computer can only hold as much memory as the motherboard will let it... which has already been established... inside the tower are two slots where you can insert two MB cards. i was thinkin that you might be able to put two 512MB cards in there for a total of 1024MB which would be extreme!!! but idk...
What kind of "cards" are we talking about here?
but if that is the case then why can they read the single slot that contains the original MB card that was supplied with the system?
What is this "MB card"?
. It would read 512 and had two slots. I had two use 2 256, would not read 1 512, well it would read a double sided as a 256 and not see a single side at all. Some boards are weird, Boards with the same chipset will have different max ram
Hahaha i remember those days of having to match up DS/SS memory and having doesnt-make-sense total and DIMM memory caps