Question about max RAM
Hi
Sorry if this is not the correct forum, but was looking for help with RAM and saw this page. I have Windows XP professional on a Dell Dimension 8400. I have an ATI Radeon card with 256mb and 1GB RAM. Recently I purchased two 1gb RAM Corsair xms2 DDR2 RAM, (for a total of 2GB), which, with the existing RAM would be 3gb.
After some trouble installing it the pc started functioning well, but after a few days using it to play multiplayer games the pc started crashing, with some error messages that appeared to be about the graphics card (started with R423XT P/N 113-A31903-102-Rev09-16P). So, my brother gave me his old NVIDIA card, which also has 256mb (can’t remember the model and happened the same thing (not the same error message, but the computer won’t start). He also gave me a couple of 512mb RAM which I installed and now the PC has 2 GB RAM and working fine.
So, my question is if I were to buy a 512mb graphics card, would I’ll be able to use the Corsair RAM or have the same situation? If not, will it be worth it to spend on a 512 graphics card even thou I would only be having 2 GB RAM