Speed improvement with new memory?

[davidkayla]

Hi,
I have a imac g4 1.25GHz running Tiger 10.4.11.
It has 256 MB in each slot = 512 MB

Two questions please. Can I put 1GB of memory in the SODIMM slot and leave the 256 MB in the DIMM slot? I.e., Can the memories in the slots be unbalanced?

Do you think I would see much of a speed improvement if I did this?
Regards,
David.

 

[Intell]

Yes you can put a 1GB SODIMM in it. Yes the amounts of memory can b different between the two memory modules.

 

[Hrududu]

More memory is never a bad thing. Speed is a hard thing to quantify with RAM, but yes, the computer will feel faster especially as you start using more than 1 application at a time or even as you open more tabs when browsing. I would highly recommend giving it the 1.25GB of RAM.

 

[Frost7]

≥1GB in Tiger will make a big difference over <1GB. I know it improved the speed of my 1 GHz PowerBook G4 Titanium tremendously to go from 512MB (2x256MB) to 1GB (2x512MB).