Advice needed on PC RAM upgrade.?

Question

I've inherited an old PC (1998 vintage) with 64MB RAM, I want to increase this RAM. Opening up the box I can see three slots for DIMMS/SIMMS. Only one of the slots is occupied (by a SIMM), it says on the SIMM:

Infinean HYS64V8300GU-8-B
8Mx64 SDRAM
PC100-222-620
B2 80303

64 Mb, Sync, 100Mhz, CL2

Which of these numbers are important to know for buying extra memory? I've seen reference to PC100 and 133 memory in shops.

Answer 1

It's definitely PC100 memory so stick with that. While the motherboard might accept a single stick of 128mb, you can't be sure, so just use the same size (64mb) which was already installed. Obviously a machine of this vintage will be running Win98 (or Linux), so 128mb or 192mb of memory is fine.

XP requires a minimum of 256mb to run decently, so forget about running it on this old hardware.

I recommend searching on Ebay, computers shops don't carry 9-year old 64mb memory sticks on the shelves- there's no demand for it :)

Here are a couple of auctions that look good:

Answer 2

The PC100 is the important one, since the other ones are pretty certainly at least up to that spec on the PC100 ram you can still get.

It's quite likely that you can use PC133 ram also.

As long as the type of RAM (the number of pins and socket type) are the same, you should have a pretty hard time buying the wrong type of SDRAM.

Answer 3

I suggest getting a new computer. Though, seeing as that wasn't the question, here's your answer. You need PC100 RAM (if you can find it. I may have some somewhere, contact me at [e-mail]) running at 100mhz. 64mb to be precise (if you mix different sizes, it'll make the computer run slower)

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Old or new pc...its doesn't matter to upgrade of that..if you want to try to upgrade your ram,you should get the new/latest ram (DDR2)slot dimm but the greatest ram in this world is Rambus Ram (but it was so expensive same like it's performance).If you interest to try DDR2 just change your motherboard first and your cpu..maybe it's was take a lot of cost but you will be get a satisfaction...Now we can get 256mb/512mb/1g of memory stick and there can inserted to one slot(i means one slot can inserted of 256mb or 512 or 1g)..one more thing,change the latest hardware can give you more choice to upgrade the some other hardware like AGP card to PCIe (grafik card)...just try your best...good luck

Answer 6

u need to remember PC 100-222 that's the type u need.

Answer 7

the ram at that time is likely obsolete today and hard to buy, unless you can get it from a second hand computer store

Answer 8

You can go to crucial.com and use their free memory tool to locate what kind of memory you need. :)