Assistance with upgrading memory

Ok, so here is the deal, im bout to buy an E-machines w5233
http://reviews.cnet.com/desktops/emachines-w5233-pentium-d/4507-3118_7-33060297.html

It sais on there the max memory is 2gb.. what would i need to upgrade in order to obtain more than just 2gb? motherboard?processor?

 

Amount of memory is based on the motherboard.
2gb seems exceedingly low for a memory cap though.

Personally I'd just look into another computer all together.

 

well dude..its basically free...thats why im getting it lol i just want to slap a few cheap upgrades on it and fresh install linux and ill be blazing.

I appreciate your input though! so the motherboard huh? im ganna read into that... what would you say the difficulty is out of 1 through 10?

 

The motherboard you're going to need to support your processors socket is going to be hard to find. After a few minutes on google I was only able to find these boards.

http://www.outletpc.com/motherboards-intel-lga775.html

There's also no guarantee these will work because I'm not sure of the form factor of the case and whether oems even follow atx standards.

 

As he said, the maximum memory supported depends on your motherboard. That computer must be absolute junk--I wouldn't pay a dime for it. If you get into replacing your motherboard and your ram, why buy that computer in the first place?

 

...like i said a million times..im buying it because it is pretty much FREE

 

another guy buying a PC thats basically worthless. Save ur money up and build your own custom PC that can acutally last for more than a week. And btw, all the pieces in that thing is outdated, upgrading it will be difficult without searching for artifacts.
*early version of lga755 limites you to the early version of core 2 duo which is already outdated to most softwares. The motherboard only has 1 sata 2 port with single IDE port which limites you to ancient readers and hdd.

DO NOT BUY THIS, I can find one on the street thats fast as this.

 

ive already test ran it..i installed linux on it and its quite quick