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.

 

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.

 

 

From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Michael Havens
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 1:43 PM
To: PLUG
Subject: memory

 

I know this is a stupid question but...

 

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

 

free -h

                   total       used       free            shared    buffers   cached

Mem:          1.9G       1.4G       489M        18M        59M       535M

 

isn't 1024 one gig? Where is the rest?

 

SHould I buy this?

 


NEW 4GB 4x1GB DDR2 PC2-5300 667MHz RAM Memory for Dell Dimension C521 <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> 


 

or should I get this?

 


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:-)~MIKE~(-: