considering GX-270 or 260

l
Looking up specs on dell off lease web page it did not tell me how many
memory slots there are and what size chips Can I put in and can they be
of different capacity,e.g., 1gb and say 2gb and maybe 1/2GB as well.
Thanks in advance.

The Optiplex GX260 and GX270 both take sticks a max of 1GB in capacity. The
GX270 tower has 4 DDR DIMM sockets, so its maximum total memory is 4GB, but
Windows XP cannot really use more memory than 3GB. For the others, the most is
2GB. In the 4-DIMM setup, you are well-advised to have pairs that match
exactly, and the system will also work with one DDR DIMM. For the others, DDR
DIMMs can be of unequal capacities... Ben Myers

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:39:50 -0500, L <> wrote:

>l
>Looking up specs on dell off lease web page it did not tell me how many
>memory slots there are and what size chips Can I put in and can they be
>of different capacity,e.g., 1gb and say 2gb and maybe 1/2GB as well.
>Thanks in advance.

On Feb 13, 3:46*pm, Ben Myers <ben_myers_spam_me_...@charter.net>
wrote:
> The Optiplex GX260 and GX270 both take sticks a max of 1GB in capacity. * The
> GX270 tower has 4 DDR DIMM sockets, so its maximum total memory is 4GB, but
> Windows XP cannot really use more memory than 3GB. * For the others, themost is
> 2GB. * In the 4-DIMM setup, you are well-advised to have pairs that match
> exactly, and the system will also work with one DDR DIMM. *For the others, DDR
> DIMMs can be of unequal capacities... Ben Myers *
>

Wasn't it one of those models that had a BIG problem with the
motherboard capacitors? We lease Dells here at work, and one of my
computers died from the motherboard cap problem. The IT support people
said they were getting 2 or 3 of them a day. Pretty sure it was either
the GX260 or the GX270. Buyer beware!

Jerry

The GX270 tower was afflicted... Ben Myers

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:43:10 -0800 (PST), Jerry <> wrote:

>On Feb 13, 3:46*pm, Ben Myers <ben_myers_spam_me_...@charter.net>
>wrote:
>> The Optiplex GX260 and GX270 both take sticks a max of 1GB in capacity. * The
>> GX270 tower has 4 DDR DIMM sockets, so its maximum total memory is 4GB, but
>> Windows XP cannot really use more memory than 3GB. * For the others, the most is
>> 2GB. * In the 4-DIMM setup, you are well-advised to have pairs that match
>> exactly, and the system will also work with one DDR DIMM. *For the others, DDR
>> DIMMs can be of unequal capacities... Ben Myers *
>>
>
>Wasn't it one of those models that had a BIG problem with the
>motherboard capacitors? We lease Dells here at work, and one of my
>computers died from the motherboard cap problem. The IT support people
>said they were getting 2 or 3 of them a day. Pretty sure it was either
>the GX260 or the GX270. Buyer beware!
>
>Jerry