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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Yes, 1024 is one gig, but often some memory is stolen by the motherboard – for example if you have an on-board graphics card that uses main memory for its RAM.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Personally, if you can afford it and the 4G is less than 2x the 2G I’d get 4G – but if you could find 2x2G sticks then you could have 6G total – not bad IMHO.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Michael Havens<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 08, 2014 1:43 PM<br><b>To:</b> PLUG<br><b>Subject:</b> memory<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>I know this is a stupid question but...<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I got a Dell dimension c521. It is slow so I figure I should add memory. There are 4 memory slots with 2 being used. How much memory is that? Well, the cards that are in there say it they are two cards with 1024 mb apiece. 'free -h' reports<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>free -h<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> total used free shared buffers cached<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Mem: 1.9G 1.4G 489M 18M 59M 535M<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>isn't 1024 one gig? Where is the rest?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>SHould I buy this?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.5pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'><a href="http://www.amazon.com/4x1GB-PC2-5300-667MHz-Memory-Dimension/dp/B00KFND9SC/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1412798813&sr=1-1&keywords=dimension+c521+memory"><b><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#0066C0;text-decoration:none'>NEW 4GB 4x1GB DDR2 PC2-5300 667MHz RAM Memory for Dell Dimension C521</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></h3></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>or should I get this?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.5pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:normal'><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Compatible-Dell-Dimension-C521-Desktop/dp/B00BL30RZS/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1412798813&sr=1-3&keywords=dimension+c521+memory"><b><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#0066C0;text-decoration:none'>2GB (2x1GB) RAM Memory CMS Compatible with Dell Dimension C521 Desktop</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></h3></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>:-)~MIKE~(-:<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>