Re: New 512 Mb RAM chips in slots 3 & 4 or 1 & 2?

Yes
"Jim Gunn" <> wrote in message
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> I purchased a new Dell Dimension 8300 which came with two 128 Mb RAM
> chips in slots 1 & 2. I just added two 512 Mb Crucial RAM chips in
> slots 3 & 4 but when I rebooted Win XP said that I had a non-optimal
> configuration and should switch the larger RAM chips to slots 1 & 2
> and vice versa. Is this really optimal?
>

>>>>> Tom Scales writes:

Tom> Yes

Funny, I put two 512 in my 8250's slots 3 and 4 to
go with the two 256 ones in 1 and 2 and XP did not
complain.

Should I rearrange them?

Tom> "Jim Gunn" <> wrote in message
news> ...
>> I purchased a new Dell Dimension 8300 which came with two 128 Mb RAM
>> chips in slots 1 & 2. I just added two 512 Mb Crucial RAM chips in
>> slots 3 & 4 but when I rebooted Win XP said that I had a non-optimal
>> configuration and should switch the larger RAM chips to slots 1 & 2
>> and vice versa. Is this really optimal?
>>





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