Question ??? Old hardware memory for XP.

[Krazy Owl]

Hi.

Building an older setup with a skt 462 on a board that can take up to 1 gig PC133 or DDR-PC2100.

What is the minimal and recommended requirement for memory to roll Win XP pro sp3 ?

I want it to roll good because i may overclock it after and use it for something.

Internet, watching movies, youtube, download, webcam maybe.

Thank you !

 

[cadaveca]

2 GB should be fine. Some stuff will suffer, but not much. Just don't try to do too much at once.

 

[Krazy Owl]

Maximum 1 gig which means 512 megs each slots but I have many 256 megs sticks so I want to know the minimal. The cpu is a good one I have for that period.

 

[Frick]

That'll work too, but you cant do much at the same time. 1 tab at a time.

BTW that is also known as socket a.

512mb will work too, but that is pushing it. Dont expect any miracles.

 

[Krazy Owl]

I know about the socket A thx. I think it was my first own socket type many years ago even if it was a soldered cpu onboard of a PC chips

 

[Frick]

See the updated response above about 512mb.

So what do you do with all these computers, and how come you start new threads about what feels like every one of them, and often with - no offense - pretty trivial questions? I mean i'm not complaining but it just seem so strange to me.

 

[NdMk2o1o]

General computer use (browsing, office programs, maybe flash games/pre Vista games) should be perfectly acceptable on 1 gig dual channel ddr though don't expect to multitask. I wouldn't recommend going the SD RAM route if you can help it, PC133 RAM is weak, the DDR would help smooth that sytem out a great deal. Also max the 1GB 512MB is enough to comfortably run XP though not much on top without major tweaking, 1GB much easier on the system. If you wanted to go all out a 60GB SSD (if you have a SATA port) with 1GB DDR would definately give you the best experience available on such an old system.

Main issue with systems of this era is the REALLY weak IDE 40-80GB HDD's available at the time, seriously shitty transfer rates, change that to a SATA I SSD drive and it's a whole new ball game.

 

[Jetster]

Min 256 but its painful. Recommended is 512 to 2 Gb although you wont see much benefit from 1 Gb to 2

 

[Krazy Owl]

See the updated response above about 512mb.

So what do you do with all these computers, and how come you start new threads about what feels like every one of them, and often with - no offense - pretty trivial questions? I mean i'm not complaining but it just seem so strange to me.

All the computers given to me as parts donator are rebuilt and given back to society for poor family. I was hoping that this forum is not only about putting new and powerful hardwares only. So I post each project when I need help in hope that someone have some time to share to help me give back to poor families.

 

[NdMk2o1o]

Min 256 but its painful. Recommended is 512 to 2 Gb

Once got given a Compaq Deskpro Pentium2 266mhz with 256MB SD RAM, I ran XP on it just because I had to have the shiny new OS, it ran ok at the desktop, anything else like opening a browser and attempting to open explorer and it was slow as shit lol, this was before cable modems/routers were common place from ISP's and 56k was the standard, I got 512kb broadband and had to install a PCI broadband modem man that system would lock up when trying to download torrents and maxing my connection the good ol' days

 

[3870x2]

Good job Frick, lets throw some 'no offense' sentences at TPUs saint.

 

[NdMk2o1o]

All the computers given to me as parts donator are rebuilt and given back to society for poor family. I was hoping that this forum is not only about putting new and powerful hardwares only. So I post each project when I need help in hope that someone have some time to share to help me give back to poor families.

Well good for you, you krazy owl (nah seriously that's a good thing bro )

 

[Krazy Owl]

Project is in build now I will test when I get a spare hdd.

 

[Frick]

Good job Frick, lets throw some 'no offense' sentences at TPUs saint.

It was a serious question, and I got a proper answer. My curiosity is satisfied.

 

[kn00tcn]

1gb is not enough for titan mode of BF2142, i have personal experience with xp+OC'd barton-m socketA+x800xtpe+1gb vs 2gb ddr1-200mhz ram

so this mobo is max 1gb? seems so low... any bios updates?

 

[FreedomEclipse]

max 1gb? seems so low... any bios updates?

Youre forgetting that 512MB was classed as quite a lot of ram back in those days, 1GB on hardware that old sounds about right. Ram was pretty expensive back in those days, I doubt anyone thought they would need anything more then 512-1GB of ram compared to todays standards where most OEM machines come with at least 8GB cuz its so cheap.

 

[Melvis]

I have a old Socket A system still running here today and it has 1GB of RAM installed, i wouldnt go under that to be honest. Since SP3 came out windows XP uses just a little more ram then it used to and once you add a Firewall and a AV program its going to use a good 300MB+ of RAM just at idle. and if you only have 512MB install once you open up a browser (which can take a shit ton of RAM these days) you will start paging to the HDD. For just basic task, like what you said 1GB for sure.

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

1gb will work fine in it. Hell I ran 512mb for years under xp without issues on a Skt A board.

 

[Krazy Owl]

Ok thank you all but at moment of install...the system blew up.. cpu and motherboard! Too bad I'll know for next time.

 

[Frick]

Pictures!

 

[Krazy Owl]

It not litterally blew up but i guest just mobo blew the cpu. Both are dead I tried with an older working cpu I had. Already at the dump now. I have some other projects coming soon

 

[Frick]

So nothing blew up. I got excited there.

 

[terrastrife]

I hope you didn't populate both RAm types at the same time D:

 

[Krazy Owl]

No I did not. I'm doing computers for many years now so I know that some mistakes are deadly.