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- Feb 8, 2004
hi, I'm trying to help out this friend of mine, she doesn't have much money and wants to upgrade her eMachines Etower 500is with more memory to get performance and stability to an acceptable level, it's a celeron 500mhz and with running XP and all the updates and antivirus and such it's become a dog and is getting unstable, constantly accessing the hard drive, i've done spyware sweeping and checked for resource hogs but didn't find much of anything. the thing is the manufactureer's web site says it can take a maximum of 256mb but's already got 384mb, all of which shows up in 'my computer' so what is the maximum memory this thing can take? also can it take pc133 or does it have to be pc100? I know the speed of the memory won't make the system faster but it may be easier to find pc133 in bigger size memory