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| Thread ID: 32439 | 2003-04-18 14:03:00 | Increasing Ram: HELP needed for newbie operator.. | Filmman (3584) | Press F1 |
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| 136791 | 2003-04-20 02:54:00 | Thanks to all here for your advise, and invaluable education! PoWa, that seems the way to go for me, just to upgrade completly with SD-RAM. In my original post on this subject, I didn't include any prices. It will cost 68 bucks to upgrade to 128 SD-RAM, plus 30 bucks for them to do it, so yes Jen, they def. do do it!, but they don't do it on their shop pemises. Might take up joeflies suggestion and look up trademe.co.nz and see if I can get a cheaper deal, as my finances are pretty tight at the mo. Thanks again to all who have helped me on this, as my original question was is Dick Smiths the way to go? -Gregg. |
Filmman (3584) | ||
| 136792 | 2003-04-20 03:43:00 | Dick Smith? I avoid them like the plauge. |
metla (154) | ||
| 136793 | 2003-04-20 08:44:00 | Depends who the Techs are on board. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 136794 | 2003-04-20 12:58:00 | Hi Gregg, The usual advice in shopping for computer bits is to go to <www.pricespy.co.nz (this is the memory section.) Have a look is the motherboard manual to see what type of memory the board will accept( you did get a manual didn't you? It may be on a CD with the MB drivers) Do a bit of research using a search engine using terms like "identify RAM", "installing RAM" etc. Once you understand a bit more and feel confident do the job your self, unless you have two left thumbs. It is a pretty basic job, and provided you take proper antistatic precautions, you should have no problems. This will futher increase you knowledge and confidence and save you a fair bit of dosh as well. One other thing, early SD RAM was single-sided and a lot of the stuff around now is double sided for later model computers. Its a very good chance if your machine takes SD RAM it will be single sided. |
Rod ger (316) | ||
| 136795 | 2003-04-20 23:49:00 | >One other thing, early SD RAM was single-sided and a lot of the stuff around now is double sided for later model computers . Its a very good chance if your machine takes SD RAM it will be single sided other way around . because the early ram chips(the chips on the ram sticks) didn't hold a lot of memory they had to put chips on both sides of the stick to get the required ram stick size . later on as the ram chips got better and could haold more memory per chip they only needed chips on one side of the stick . (roughly put) . with a lot of early mobo's you will need dual sided ram sticks to be able to get max amount of ram . |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 136796 | 2003-04-21 00:37:00 | Oop's! Guess you shouldn't believe all you hear in a computer shop. | Rod ger (316) | ||
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