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 Dec 20 2004, 10:38 PM
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 P.S.  Group: Member Posts: 453 Joined: Aug 2004 Member No: 40,802  |
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! |
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Dec 20 2004, 10:58 PM
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 dripping destruction Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,282 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 21,929 |
you need to know if you have spare memory slotts first
and the config. of the pins. and then buy the memory. it's different for laptops and desktops. but yes, you can install more memory (usually) but if you're computer's just slowing down, i suggest you get some anti-virus, and anti-spyware. the only time you'd need more memory is it you have new apps that need a lot of memory, or have a lot of apps running at the same time. |
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Dec 20 2004, 11:09 PM
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P.S. Group: Member Posts: 453 Joined: Aug 2004 Member No: 40,802 |
I have McAfee and Spyware Doctore and Ad-Aware... so I dont think its that... I have a desktop so how would I check for memory slots? Do I have to open my computer?!
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Dec 20 2004, 11:27 PM
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dripping destruction Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,282 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 21,929 |
yes you would, i don't know how to explain it online.
i think PC world might have a good tutorial on it. just google it. |
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Dec 21 2004, 02:08 AM
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 Oh you'd be surprised Group: Member Posts: 2,406 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 7,886 |
i dont know any of this technology stuff. lol.
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Dec 21 2004, 03:37 PM
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 =] Group: Member Posts: 712 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 15,626 |
It depends... well your compter probably uses DDR or DDR2. Find that out... because you can't have 240-pin DDR2ram on a DDR slot. Knowing Dell, they probably filled both your slots... anyway what's your Dell Model I'll find out what type you need.
By the way, I don't think Spyware Docter is legit. It is not to be confused with Spybot S&D. ;) |
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Dec 29 2004, 12:51 PM
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 The red or the blue Group: Member Posts: 294 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 19,976 |
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.
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Dec 30 2004, 09:31 PM
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 banned Group: Member Posts: 1,589 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,768 |
My PC's available disk space:
used: 99.5 GB total: 425.5 GB Its a custom computer so yeah. windows XP Prof. |
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Dec 30 2004, 09:51 PM
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The red or the blue Group: Member Posts: 294 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 19,976 |
QUOTE(Chaos13 @ Dec 30 2004, 8:31 PM) My PC's available disk space: used: 99.5 GB total: 425.5 GB Its a custom computer so yeah. windows XP Prof.  Do you know if that's 2 hard drives in a raid 0 array or is it 3 harddrives in a raid 5 array? |
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Dec 30 2004, 09:57 PM
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banned Group: Member Posts: 1,589 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,768 |
i have no clue what it is! i just asked my friend to buy me the best computer with lots of memory and yeah he got me this customized comp. its really really really fast!!
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Dec 30 2004, 10:03 PM
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The red or the blue Group: Member Posts: 294 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 19,976 |
QUOTE(Chaos13 @ Dec 30 2004, 8:57 PM) i have no clue what it is! i just asked my friend to buy me the best computer with lots of memory and yeah he got me this customized comp. its really really really fast!! Well technically that's harddrive space, memory is usually considered RAM but w/e. Anyways, depending on your computer ram can have different costs. Faster ram will cost you more. Also there are different things you need to look at like the RAM timings, and CAS, overclockers like RAM with low CAS since it means higher overclocks but for the average consumer all you need is CAS 3 ram, it runs a little slower but you won't really notice. Lower CAS will cost you more, you'll want to check whether the installed ram is PC2100, PC2700, PC3200 or PC4000. This program: CPU-Z Is extremely useful in determining such things, it'll also tell you stuff about your Mobo and your cpu and what not. Oh yea, forgot the price, round about $50-$65 for 512mb of pc2700 is a pretty good buy. |
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Dec 31 2004, 12:10 PM
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banned Group: Member Posts: 1,589 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,768 |
confusion! anyways its a good computer! fast and very very good so um yeah. happy
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Dec 31 2004, 01:12 PM
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=] Group: Member Posts: 712 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 15,626 |
Yeah... most people don't need low lateny RAM. The processor sends information down the DIMM... the low latency RAM is faster. It makes little or no difference though for what the average user does. For AMD processors, if you want low latency RAM, you want about 2-... latency. Intel: 2.5-.... Oh well, I'm confusing.
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