Increase RAM ?

scaldyflash

Hi,

I am considering increasing my RAM because things are a bit slow with more than two things running at once. The motherboard I have at the mo.
is Board: MSI MS-6593 1.0
Bus Clock: 133 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 07.00T 04/02/0

And it does have a free slot available.

What I cannot figure out is

1; Should I just add 256mb of ram or
2; get a 512 ram chip and add it ?

Oh and also, how do I find out if the board will accept DDR RAM, my current chip is not DDR.

Many thanks for any help forthcoming.

scaldyflash

woo

if you go to crucial it will tell you what type of memory is suitable for your motherboard.
i would go for 512 if i were you.

flang

You can have a max of 1gb per slot of pc2100 DDR
4 gig in all

scaldyflash

woo wrote:

if you go to crucial it will tell you what type of memory is suitable for your motherboard.
i would go for 512 if i were you.

Thanks for that woo I just tried them but as good and all as their memory advisor tool is, it doesn't have my 4 year old multivision "vision 320 XP system" on their database so 'm still pretty stuck with which way to go !

woo

how sure are you of your motherboard model?

well probably more sure than that of my ability to read... you can find it by make and model at crucial

http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/listparts.asp?Mfr%2BProductline=MSI+%28Micro+Star%29%2B+Motherboards&mfr=MSI+%28Micro+Star%29&tabid=AM&model=MS-6593+%28K7T266+Pro2U%29&submit=Go

humfer

Definately pursue crucial. I had confused myself stupid for many weeks trying to work out what type of memory I needed. Then 5 minutes on their site and all was sorted

T4i

MS-6593 (K7T266 Pro2U) I'm guessing this is yours as it takes PC100/PC133.

or

MS-6593 (KT3 Ultra2-C)