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?
or should I get this?
:-)~MIKE~(-: