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#1 2008-02-07 5:21 pm
- snoopy
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Blue & White G3 Tower
I know the max ram is 1 gig total (256 PC100 X 4 slots). But, has anyone tried 512? Did it work?
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#2 2008-02-07 7:06 pm
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Re: Blue & White G3 Tower
macsales.com only offer 256 sticks and they would offer 512s if they would work so I would say no.
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#3 2008-02-07 7:43 pm
- Orion
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Re: Blue & White G3 Tower
You can use 512 sticks, but the computer will only recognize half of the chip. Same thing happens when you put a 256 chip in a Beige G3. It only recognizes 128megs of it.
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#4 2008-02-07 9:05 pm
Re: Blue & White G3 Tower
I believe the beige G3 could support 256MB dimms, provided they were low-enough density.
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#6 2008-02-07 10:57 pm
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Re: Blue & White G3 Tower
matt wrote:
I believe the beige G3 could support 256MB dimms, provided they were low-enough density.
Yup. I have a beige G3 in front of me (well, behind the PB I am typing on) which has 768 MBs = 3 * 256 MB sticks.
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#7 2008-02-08 6:32 am
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Re: Blue & White G3 Tower
Hmmm.. Then perhaps I was thinking of 512's in a Beige. All I remember is that I had a card in my beige and it only recognized half of it.
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#8 2008-05-13 7:10 am
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Re: Blue & White G3 Tower
D'Eyncourt wrote:
matt wrote:
I believe the beige G3 could support 256MB dimms, provided they were low-enough density.
Yup. I have a beige G3 in front of me (well, behind the PB I am typing on) which has 768 MBs = 3 * 256 MB sticks.
Same here. Still pretty dog slow under 9.2.1
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