PC ram upgrade

[stooby]

Am wanting to up my ram on my main pc at home. It currently only has 2gb ddr2 and I want to double it. This may sound a stupid question but I take it there are different types of ram available, so how do I make sure I get the right type for my pc?

cheers
Stu

 

[chins172]

there are lots of sites that can give you upgrade options, all you have to do is tap in your pc details.
google is your friend!

 

[DrR]

Whats the reason for upgrading? 2GB is a reasonable amount anyhow.

 

[stooby]

there are lots of sites that can give you upgrade options, all you have to do is tap in your pc details.
google is your friend!

The pc has been altered since I bought it though. Won't that matter?
I'll have a look now. Cheers.

 

[stooby]

Whats the reason for upgrading? 2GB is a reasonable amount anyhow.

Just seems to be slowing a bit more than it used to. I have a little ram/cpu monitor and the ram tends to be getting into the 90% when playing a game on one screen and watching a video on the other. I have a 3.2g dual core processor so I just thought upgrading the ram would be good. I have 3gb ram on my laptop and it seems to run smoother than the pc.

 

[Moz168]

http://www.crucial.com/uk/index.aspx?cpe=CHAWKuk

An app on there that will scan the computer your on and tell you what you need.

 

[172Ben]

What bit operating system you running?

 

[stooby]

What bit operating system you running?

32bit I think.. vista home premium 32.. does that make sense?

 

[Mr J Cake]

there are several things you need to find out and consider first.

1. you need to know how much ram your motherboard can handle.

2. what speed you want and your motherboard will accept.

3. and what operating system you have coz vista dont need or wont use much more then 3Gig

4. and also how many ram slots do you have?

 

[stooby]

motherboard can handle 4gb
not sure of the speed..
vista home premium
4 slots

 

[172Ben]

Be worth upgrading to windows vista 64bit first.

im running vista 32bit with 4gb ram. It uses the whole 4gb aswell, the latest update service pack allows 32bit to use 4gb, where as before it would only allow a max of 3.5gb.

 

[Mr J Cake]

ok id say your best bet would be to get 2 x pairs of 1g matched 667mhz ddr2's

or just get 2 x 2g matched 667mhz ddr2's

try here they might have what you want.

http://www.offtek.co.uk

 

[stooby]

What are the main differences between 32 and 64?
Do you have to pay to upgrade?

Cheers

Ill have a look mr cake

 

[Mr J Cake]

dont bother going to 64 bit u will never find alot of software for it stay with 32bit.

you also need to find out wether you have

pc3200
pc4200
pc5300
pc8500
pc9600 too!

 

[stooby]

dont bother going to 64 bit u will never find alot of software for it stay with 32bit.

you also need to find out wether you have

pc3200
pc4200
pc5300
pc8500
pc9600 too!

Yeah I was just looking on that site and it lists all the numbers you gave above and more! how do I go about getting such information?

 

[172Ben]

probably be pc5300, take an existing stick out it should say it on them

 

[Mr J Cake]

type system into search box then click the little comp screen with system next to it and have a look what processor u have have and also type disk cleanup into search box and clean your comp that will hell a little

 

[stooby]

Yeah I'll do it when I get home tonight although it shouldn't need cleaning as its a new install of vista about a month ago. I deleted the entire system and started again.

Thanks for all the help

 

[Mr J Cake]

no probs and since its a clean install with sp1 too google vista sp1 cleaner coz for some reason sp1 leaves aload of rubbish around that can confuse itself hope it all go's well. Pm i u need any help and ill c what i know can be of use but by no means am i a pro.

bye bye

 

[Mike_182]

PC6400 is the best to go for IMHO - it's only a smidge more than 5400, faster 9 times out of 10, and is more than anyone needs for anything up to a Q6600 processor...

 

[stooby]

that any good?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/4GB-PC6400-DDR2-800-PC2-6400-800MHz-240PIN-MEM-2GB-x-2_W0QQitemZ310089063292QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item310089063292&_trkparms=72%3A1301|39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A12|240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

 

[Stuart.Atkinson]

only thing id say is that its high density. Not compatable with all systems.

 

[Mike_182]

I'd also avoid buying from eBay unless it's a branded stick. A lot of stuff that comes from there is made using extremely cheap chips which kills performance...