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I am upgrading a friends pc who refuses to let go. It's an Emaching T1140 and what I've found says that one can only put a max of 256 SDRAM PC100 or 133 in each of the two slots. Anyone think that it would work with 512 sticks? I hesitate to order and chance it so I wondered if anyone knew.

[augie]

I am upgrading a friends pc who refuses to let go. It's an Emaching T1140 and what I've found says that one can only put a max of 256 SDRAM PC100 or 133 in each of the two slots. Anyone think that it would work with 512 sticks? I hesitate to order and chance it so I wondered if anyone knew.

Go to crucial.com and run their adviser, about the best thing you can do to see what's possible to install. My ASUS TUSL2-C board only only accepted a 256MB/slot for a total of 512MB. I really doubt an Emachines would be any better than that Celeron/P111 motherboard.

Man, 1.1 GHz, that's a good eight years old or so. If I were him, I'd worry more about the power supply and hard drive(s). Time to tell him, sooner than later he'll be looking at . Good luck with the 'upgrade'.

BTW, I just noticed your specs, you come here to ask a question like that?

Just teasing.

EDIT: Just thinking here, what if the extra 20W or so for the extra memory puts his darn old and probably inadequate PSU into a coma, you'll be by your friend. I wouldn't want to see that over a basically obsolete rig. Hey, I still have mine for emergencies.

[yeshuas]

I would throw in another $300 and by a low end Dell

[stuball56 Profile]

Already has a new PSU and HDD, use them in a new build if I can convince him, for now though I'll just take out the 128 and replace it with a 256, for 512 total over the current total of 384mb, should be a bit of a performance increase, just a bit but noticable. Thanks.
PS: I finaly updated my specs

[kd1966 Profile YIM]

Orrrrrr............ you could go the route I just did with my old Emachine system................. took out everything and replaced with a Phenom X4 AM2+ 9650 and 8GB RAM....... and a 9800GTX

All fits pretty snug in the mini-atx case..........

[augie]

Already has a new PSU and HDD, use them in a new build if I can convince him, for now though I'll just take out the 128 and replace it with a 256, for 512 total over the current total of 384mb, should be a bit of a performance increase, just a bit but noticable. Thanks.
PS: I finaly updated my specs

Hahaha @ updated specs!

LOL @ kd1966 by a 'snug fit' for the 9800GTX in a microATX case!

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If you can find 512MB sticks of PC100/133 ram, I doubt they would work if the mobo doesn't say they will as that came out right as DDR ram was becoming standard and I don't think many boards actually support it. Likely, you'd be able to get one stick recognized, but not 2.