I wanted to find out the maximum memory capacity on my computer is.
I have an HP Pavillion Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.4GHz, 1.49 GB of RAM
I wanted to buy another 1GB stick of DDR RAM, because it's on sale right now for so cheap, but when i went to www.crucial.com, it says my maximum memory capacity is 2GB...
I've heard people say though that crucial.com can sometimes be off, so i didn't just want to take their word. But at the same time, i don't want to by a gig, if my computer can only take 512MB more...
So how else, other than referring to that site, can i find out what the max amount of RAM i can put on my computer is??
2007-08-19 09:11:10 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
You can contact your motherboard mfg. However if you add 512 MB it will be enough for a long time. My pc has 3GB of ram, but my ram gauge says it uses only 28% most of the time. Google gadgets has a meter that measures processor usage and ram usage. Download it--you will see that even 1.5GB of ram is as much as you will use most of the time.
2007-08-19 09:20:50 · answer #1 · answered by Nemo the geek 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without the model number, it is tough to tell because every model is different. One has a maximum of 1Gb while others are higher.
2007-08-19 16:23:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If all else fails you could read the documentation that came with your computer.
2007-08-19 16:22:17 · answer #3 · answered by snvffy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to HP.com and check the hardware configuration of your model
2007-08-19 16:16:20 · answer #4 · answered by chharsha 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i would change the processor get top speeds
2007-08-19 16:19:16 · answer #5 · answered by bill goldberg 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋