dx2450 RAM

[signius]

Just because I couldn't find anything solid on this anywhere online when I was searching...

TL;DR - the dx2450 (and, I imagine, similar business class compaqs) can support more than 4GB RAM - at least 6GB, though possibly 8GB.

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[ext_2189904]

Hi - did you ever get further?
Mine still has 4GB and I'm stuggling so will jump at trying 8GB. Even 6 is good enough. What sticks did you end up using?

[signius]

Seems I had forgotten about this post (comment email alerts ftw).

Yes, another friend of mine gave me an additional 2x2GB sticks later. The dx2450 fully recognised 4x2GB without any trouble. Two matched pairs - Corsair xms2 and Kingston HyperX (KHX6400D2D2/2G).

fwiw, while there was some improvement with switching apps after going 4->6GB, moving up to 8 didn't make any difference (it wasn't using the full 6 anyway). I guess if you have many large apps open it might. But if you do, you're probably doing something that would benefit more from looking at a new system anyway.

And since we're digging up an old post, and I've moved on from this system, I'll make a few other notes. The 2.3GHz 4450B can't handle anything better than the Radeon HD4670. I swapped in a GTX 550Ti later on and saw almost no improvement in WoW. CPU maxed out, GPU sitting at 30-50%. Swapping out the HD for an SSD did make a pretty hefty improvement to boot and load speeds though.