I'm currently on an old library PC that they were giving away, but which is, in many ways, superior to my father's PC, so I'm setting this up to replace his. However, there is one area in which it is deficient compared to his, but only slightly, and the real world performance isn't actually suffering (especially due to the presence of the horrid OS, Win ME, on his old one).
My question is related to RAM, since his old one actually has about 384MB compared to the 256MB on this one. I have a spare two sticks of DDR266 or PC2200 (I think that's what they are) 256MB for a total of 512MB. Now, this PC is an old Gateway, but it actually has a reasonably comfortable case to work in (unlike the hellish proprietary "Flex" case), so installing different RAM wouldn't be a problem as far as physically doing it.
The motherboard in this thing is (according to the Gateway service page) an Intel "Fedora" motherboard with PIII 1000MHz CPU. The RAM is supposedly one stick of 256MB 133/100/66MHz 64-bit 4-clock 16x16 SDRAM. Now obviously I'm not expecting to make full use of the speed of the newer RAM, but I'd rather it be in some sort of use, rather than just sitting in a plastic box in the closet. Before I go randomly putting RAM where it might inadvertantly explode, does this sound like it would work?
My question is related to RAM, since his old one actually has about 384MB compared to the 256MB on this one. I have a spare two sticks of DDR266 or PC2200 (I think that's what they are) 256MB for a total of 512MB. Now, this PC is an old Gateway, but it actually has a reasonably comfortable case to work in (unlike the hellish proprietary "Flex" case), so installing different RAM wouldn't be a problem as far as physically doing it.
The motherboard in this thing is (according to the Gateway service page) an Intel "Fedora" motherboard with PIII 1000MHz CPU. The RAM is supposedly one stick of 256MB 133/100/66MHz 64-bit 4-clock 16x16 SDRAM. Now obviously I'm not expecting to make full use of the speed of the newer RAM, but I'd rather it be in some sort of use, rather than just sitting in a plastic box in the closet. Before I go randomly putting RAM where it might inadvertantly explode, does this sound like it would work?
