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More info?)
"name" <jayjay_happiegirl@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "snoopy" <snoop-dog@my-doghouse.com> wrote in message
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> > I'd tend to believe Dell. It is their OEM board. Just because a Intel
spec
> > sheet says an OEM board supports something doesn't mean Dell supports
it. I
> > think your in one of those gray areas.
> >
> > Maybe the board technically supports 4GB but it was never tested with
4GB of
> > memory?
> >
> > "The Social Outcast" <postmaster@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
> > news:uhgrc.747$hm5.7418993@news-text.cableinet.net...
> > > I've just purchased an 8300 and want to upgrade the memory.
> > >
> > > Dell's literature says the maximum memory is 2gb, Crucial says 4gb.
> > >
> > > Help!
> > >
> > >
>
> If you go to Dell's website and customize an 8300, you will see that
> memory selection goes up to 4GB. This is new system, I assume.
>
> I purchased an 8200 in september of 2002. The manual states that it
> only supports 2GB max. Dell was using RDR back then. I don't know
> the details of the RAMBUS specification or it's history, but perhaps
> that is some sort of limitation imposed by the RDR, and they haven't
> bothered to changed the print yet? Eh, who cares.
>
> Well anyway, here is the link
>
>
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=19&kc=6V524&l=en&oc=D83SO&s=dhs
Thanks for the replies.
I'm in the UK so the Dell website works a little differently to the US one -
you guys over the pond seem to get a whole shedload of different options
where you can configure a system right down to where they stick the "intel
inside" sticker!
Well, not quite, but you get my drift.
The UK site's a little less generous with options and doesn't allow you to
specify 4gb of memory, hence my original question.
Looks like 4gb it is then, let's just hope XP Pro handles 4gb of memory
better than ME tried to with anything more than 512mb!