I am currently a college undergrad and landed a position with a small company doing IT support and networking. I was poking around the systems there and they are running an old gateway server, 7210 to be precise. From what I read about it on the net, it seems like a reliable machine for very reasonable cost when it was purchased a few years back. Of course the cool thing to do would be buy an all new server for like 3500, but they dont have the money. So it comes down to this. I see the server only has a 128mb stick of ram (ecc unbuffered). Of course I want to upgrade this and wanted to know if the expense would be worth it, or if I'm just throwing money in the trash. In other words, should I consider upgrading the Ram, and perhaps processor down the road. Also, does anyone have any input on how much ram should be running in a server that merely runs a split access database in the background and allows for remote storage? In fact, anyone have any good tips or know anything about this gateway server 7210 in general? Thanks for all the input.

Personally I wouldn't figure anything less than maxing out the total the board can take for a server. It's always cheaper to do it once and ram is relatively cheap these days. In your case I would get up to 512 or 1gig. I would forget about upgrading the processor, The host bus is more important in my opinion and you can't do anything about that. Golly gee wilerkers everyone! Learn to Internet Search

Thanks for the help. So far from my searching it appears that this server can only hold up to 2GB. Does that sound correct? Also, does anyone know what the max size ram chip per slot is for the gateway 7210 server? Thanks in advance.

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