| working with outdated hardware has its issues, one is NOT cost of memory!!! I was sorely hurting with performance here on these old Dell Optiplex 260's that my son donated to the cause...suffering along on 512mb, then I won an ebay auction yesterday....4 sticks, 1GB each, for $68.99.....quite reasonable, don't you think? The 260's max @ 2GB, so I'll have 2GB in the workstation, 1GB respectovely in the Windows & Linux servers....and then I can pile another 1GB from the 4 x 256 pieces for my old server, I call him "Hot Rod", he's a dual, that's right I said "DUAL", P3 750's -- currently humming along on 384MB of ram, that's right, that's one 256 & one 128, and last but not least, a screaming 8GB SCSI hard drive, yep, that's right, room to spare!!! Actually, when I realized I needed it again, it had been gathering dust for about 2-3 years, but it booted up just fine, amazing, I guess??? |