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what memory should I buy ??




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Motherboard is Asus A7N8X-VM.

CPU AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+

Memory Summary:
Maximum Capacity 1536 MBytes
Memory Slots 2
Error Correction None
2 DDR DIMM slots (166.4 Mhz)
memory timings 3 3 3 7


Question: What is the best choice of memory?
My work is excel based with very large spreadsheet activity.
At present the spreadsheet stops working and is unable to finish calculations. I want to upgrade from present 1Gb memory to maximum which I believe to be 2Gb.

Thanks for your help - if you can give any!!
Colwyn.


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