Cost estimate for getting back into 5 boxing

[Hivetyrant]

Yes, you could add slightly more ram, however for a machine that old, you will either find that the motherboard can't handle more than 4 itself, or you will realise how much large single DDR2 sticks cost and understand that it would be cheaper to upgrade your whole system. (Slight exageration, but you get the point)

The other problem you have is the CPU, which would be the bottleneck once you add more ram anyways.
While the Athlon AMD's are slightly different from Intel in teh way you measure clock speeds, the 2.26 is going to struggle when you throw more than 2 clients at it.

So i'm sorry, but I wouldn't be trying to 5 box on that machine, it would be possible to get it working, but it would still require a bit of money and the performance would be pretty dissapointing.

That is just my crystal ball though, so someone with a similar setup might be able to give a better response

(Though I did run an AMD 4800 X2 system years ago and it wasn't even close to the performance of my last system (which barely ran 5))