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Originally Posted by Snowyowl
Thanks, Duncan! Very helpful. I think that a call to the store where I bought the computer, a Compapc Presario 6000, might make sense before i do anything else. Hopefully they will be able to give me some info. i'll get back to you shortly. I don't want to take the computer in to them because it'll be gone for a least a week and cost about $75 just to look.
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Dan,
From a quick Google, it would appear that a Compaq Presario 6000 has 2 memory slots and takes 266MHz DDR memory. How much capacity the motherboad can handle in total, and how big each slot can take seems to vary depending on which particular 6000 model you have. If you have the handbook for the PC it should say in there. It would appear that even the lowest spec 6000 models can take a 512MB module in each slot and cope with a max total of 1GB. Given the age of the machine, even the slowest of modern 266MHz memory modules should be able to work with this motherboard.
If you want to fit 1GB of memory, you would have to throw away your current 256MB module to fit the two off new 512MB modules. Fitting a single 512MB module in your current spare slot would give you 768MB of memory.
Unless money is particularly tight, I'd second Clive's suggestion and get 1GB. When it comes to photo processing, you need a lot of memory.
Hope this helps.
Duncan