First check your computer motherboard specs to see if it supports "DDR" Double
Density RAM.

Most computers from that era do support DDR.

Double Density RAM gives you TWO RAM read/writes for every single clock pulse, hence its name.

The thing one has to know about this is that you cannot install RAM sticks willy-nilly as we did with older systems and get more memory as a result. The sticks have to be matched - and also placed into the proper slots on the motherboard in order for the machine to automatically set itself to run in DDR mode at startup.

A mismatched ram set would force the machine to start up in Single Density mode, which is "taking a hit" because in single density mode you would have literally the effect of HALF the amount of RAM as you would when it is running in Single Density mode.

If your 1.5G or RAM is configured properly the motherboard will see it as DDR. BUT - if perhaps your computer has one stick that is 1G and another that is 512K, then they are not matched and it is going to run in the slower Sindle Density mode. This is a case where using only the single 1G stick will actually deliver more performance than trying to use the 1.5G with the "extra" mismatched ram stick. In DDR mode, the 1G of ram will actually performa as if it were 2G of ram. But with mismatched sticks and the forced
Single Density mode, it would run as 1.5G of RAM only, and run slower.


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