computer info, memory Options

[CraziWhiteBoi]

I have no clue what I have to buy or anything so read and follow along

I have had my computer for about a year and half and its kinda starting to slow down and I have enuf room in my "Local Disk" or C: or whatever but the memory that makes it "run" is kinda slow and slows down my computer is there anyway to buy some and put it in my computer? And how much does it usually cost?

Did you get that? My computer is a Dell if that helps at all!

[mechwarrior1989]

It's guarenteed to be DDR and not DDR2 because DDR2 is new and they didn't have it a year and a half ago. You need to know what model of Dell computer you have, if it is the lower model's, starting with a 2--- then you have 2 dimm slots, if it's a 4--- also two dimm slots, the 8--- and the XPS have 4 dimm slots. All dell servers have at least 4 dimm slots. You might also want to see what programs are booting at start up. Go to start, run, then type in "msconfig" without the quotation marks, then go to startup and start unchecking the stuff that don't need to boot, this will speed up bootup times and also allow you to ultimatly free up system resources. But you're right in choosing ram to upgrade, ram is the cheapest way to increase computer performance, harddrive has almost nothing to do with it. Though faster harddrive ie 10,000rpm drives will help performance a bit.