Motherboard Memory Capacity Test

[m0r94n]

G'day

Ive been trying to rake money together to buy a new pc over the last year or so but due to new component releases (8800 being the main culprit) I still havnt got enough money, so for the minute I was thinking about upgrading the amount of RAM I currently have on this pc (a shoddy 512mb).

As I got my pc a fair few years ago im not sure who manufactured the mobo and therefore I cannot find product information for it. Is there any way to find out how much memory a mobo can hold, something like the SRLabs program in which they read your hardware and determine how well your pc can run games.

Any help is appreciated

Thanks

 

[semi-pro waster]

If you run a program such as Aida32 it should give you the name of your motherboard and then you can look at the manufacturers website, this is a lot simpler than trying to find out the other way about the Ram capacity (if indeed any such programs exist). Alternatively if you know what CPU you have I'm sure someone could give you an educated guess.

 

[Cupra]

G'day

Ive been trying to rake money together to buy a new pc over the last year or so but due to new component releases (8800 being the main culprit) I still havnt got enough money, so for the minute I was thinking about upgrading the amount of RAM I currently have on this pc (a shoddy 512mb).

As I got my pc a fair few years ago im not sure who manufactured the mobo and therefore I cannot find product information for it. Is there any way to find out how much memory a mobo can hold, something like the SRLabs program in which they read your hardware and determine how well your pc can run games.

Any help is appreciated

Thanks

id say if you got ram for that pc you would be throwing money away if you intend on an upgrade as the ram type is probably ddr or slower not ddr2

 

[m0r94n]

Good point, cheers for the advice. The problem is ive only saved around £500 at the minute and a lot of that I have to put away for my accomodation costs next year. I suppose I could always try getting a student overdraft ...