What is the highest ram possible

Depends on your motherboard

depend entirely on your motherboard and its specs. Mine can only take up to 1gig of ddr, but quite frankly, if you ever need over 512 i'd be very surprised...Saw a PC once that could take 7 gigs, but that was for an animation and video editing.

mine takes 3GB of DDR333. People said you'd never need over 64 at one point, roguehighlander.

www.crucial.com has a convenient calculator for finding the max for most computers. Best Luck, Bob

When trying to edit avi in paint programs, (throwing 50 frames in, it displays them as an animation which I then use to create a 352x288 pixel 24bit animated gif), my system freezes up with a memory error. I have an Athlon 2000XP, and 512meg DDR333, all tweaked up. S0... I will be throwing an extra 1 gig of ram into my machine soon, taking me to 1.5 gigs. But if I didn't do this one thing with my computer, 512 would be perfectly fine! And Gaz, I believe that quote was from Bill Gates, of all people! Bill also said sopmething along the lines of 'the internet would be of any interest or use to home users' at one time! Things change!

My mobo (Giga-Byte GA-7IXEH) has a maximum of 1.5 GB ram, and I run with 1 GB ram in win98se with no problems at all. Mine only takes sdram dimms (pc133). Actually, there are 2 factors: Max ram that the OS will see, and the Max that you mobo will see. The LOWER of the 2, is the limiting factor. Win98se can see up to 2 GB ram, so my mobo is the real limiting factor.