pentium 2

[JAYDALOSS]

My friend had 125 mb of physical memory and a pentium 2 300 mhz 100 speed module My friend put a pentium 2 450 mhz 65mg speed module in his computer After he did that his physical memory read 64 mb. Is he better off putting his old pentium 2 back At least he had his125 mb of memory back again. Or shouldhe just put a extra 64 ram and keep the new 450 pentium

 

[IBMan]

probably more memory, what operating system would he be using?

 

[JAYDALOSS]

Windows xp he is using.He did get a error message saying his pentium 2 was lacking the necessary 100 mg of speed module
but the computer still started andwas workingokay.Its just that he lost 64 mg of memory

 

[Tro1086]

hehe, xp on a pII 300MHz!!! I wont even trust my Dell with a P4 1.4 and 512Mb ram to run XP, hahaha. But it has really shitty RDRAM instead of DDR so that slows it down a lot. I just think XP would bog it down more the ME dose and make it harder to play any games on it.

 

[baronvongogo]

id stick with the 300Mhz and 128 RAM but i dont think that would run XP, at all thought the minimum requirements was 512MB for XP. Although i might be wrong, id say go with 98SE or ME or even windows 2000 NT.

 

[TheMajor]

Xp only needs 64MB of RAM. It runs fine on my old PC (see my signature for specs). Used it for years. IT also worked fien before I overclocked it.

 

[baronvongogo]

i stand corrected *bows to the major*

 

[JAYDALOSS]

Who else agrees with sticking with the 300mhz 128 speed memory rather than putting in a 450 mhz with a 64 speed memory module Cant you always put another 64 in there to make up the difference

 

[IBMan]

if theres available ram yes, and i'd go with more ram at least 256 should do it, maybe even 384 if u have room

 

[junglemike]

I use my laptop on daily basis It is P-II - 300mhz, w/ 128mb ram, I have dual boot win2000 & MDK 9.2 It works perfectly, including any office, internet work, and even mpeg-4 movies. But XP?? -
No way, XP would eat all 128mb ram just after load for itself.
Forget about XP, there's no real advantage in XP over W2k. I use W2k on my desktop (1gb ram) and not XP wtw.