[dba-Tech] [dba-OT] W7 in 2GB RAM

Looks like te answer to my question is NO.  According to Crucial, 2 x 1GB is the limit:

http://www.crucial.com/upgrade/Dell-memory/Dimension+%2F+Dimension+XPS/Dimension+
3100-upgrades.html

On 28 Jul 2013 at 11:16, Stuart McLachlan wrote:

> From the horses mouth:
> 
> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/system-requirements
> 
> If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here's what it takes:
>     1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
>     1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
>     16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
>     DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
> 
> Second question;
> 
> It should be fine to run Wordpad, Calc etc it you don't have any AV or other applications 
> running in the background.
> 
> Try to run something like an Office 2010 application and you will be thrashing the hard drive 
> constantly. 
> 
> Are you sure that you can't replace the current memory with  2 x 2GB chips? 
> 
> -- 
> Stuart
> 
> On 27 Jul 2013 at 16:37, Rocky Smolin wrote:
> 
> > Can you run W7 in 2GB RAM?  I have a Dell Dimension 3100 - has a P$ at 3+GHz
> > but which maxes out at 2GB.  Running WXP.  Will it run unacceptable slowly
> > with only 2GB RAM?
> >  
> > TIA
> >  
> > Rocky
> >  
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