256 or 512mb ram on Celery 500?

[trueman]

A mate of mine has a computer which is running very slow. I have cleaned it up as much as possible but its only a Celery 500 with 64mb of ram. I am going to increase his ram to at least 256mb but was wondering should I go to 512mb instead? Will I notice the difference with the cpu being only a 500 celery. Or is 256mb all he should need.

Thanks.

[EpyonMelee]

why not just buy a new cpu with the money used for the ram? if ram is his only choice then get 256

im getting that pc 100 and pc 133 are his only options?

[HeadBand]

i would say 512 is definatley overkill....also check what the maximum module size is it may only be 128.....personaly all i would do is add another 128 to make the total 192

[John Prophet]

w98 or xp or what?

with w98 256 is plenty

but yeah, a cpu upgrade would help a lot

[tgxiii]

I had an AMD K6-2 450 MHz with 64MB RAM. I added another 64MB and a 128MB stick, getting it up to 256MB. It got a bit better, but I wasn't satisfied. I bought two 256MB sticks to get it up to 512MB. I saw no increase in performance.

[EpyonMelee]

yep if he wants a preformance upgrade get a faster cpu

a amd 2200 xp is only like what 80 bucks tops?

[trueman]

It is only Win98 so I suppose I will stick with 256.

Will a P3 cpu fit into the same slot as a 500 celery as I have a 733mhz P3 chip. I havent taken the cover off the celery yet and Im not sure what type of socket they have.

[EpyonMelee]

need to tell exact socket numbers

[trueman]

The P3 is a socket 370?

[trueman]

Not sure about the Celery though without looking.