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In good old days of i440BX it usually took just a BIOS update (and some socket rewiring for the latest CPUs) to add support for extra RAM and CPUs...
by qwerty456127 8y ago
In good old days of i440BX it usually took just a BIOS update (and some socket rewiring for the latest CPUs) to add support for extra RAM and CPUs...
- frabert 8y agoThat's what it would take in this case as well, it's just that the manufacturer doesn't provide any.
- qwerty456127 8y agoSure. I've commented before I've read the article. Now I see. In fact the BIOSes I've ended up using during the last years of my BX PC (before I've bought a laptop) were community-patched. Now I wonder if it is possible to patch my Dell E5500 to support more than 4 GiBs or if it's actually an unbreakable limitation of its chipset...
- nisa 8y ago8gb should work fine. 16gb probably not.