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| Thread ID: 107244 | 2010-02-09 21:56:00 | Adding more RAM - advice please? | John H (8) | Press F1 |
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| 856738 | 2010-02-09 21:56:00 | My PC seems to be a bit sad/slow these days managing multi-tasking, and I wanted some advice please. According to Belarc Advisor, this is what I have got: Operating System Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (build 2600) Processor AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.00 gigahertz 128 kilobyte primary memory cache 512 kilobyte secondary memory cache Main Circuit Board Board: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. NF-CK804 Bus Clock: 201 megahertz BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. F4 12/14/2004 Memory Modules 1024 Megabytes Installed Memory Slot 'A0' has 512 MB Slot 'A1' has 512 MB Slot 'A2' has 512 MB Slot 'A3' has 512 MB Display NVIDIA GeForce 6200 [Display adapter] I have Sygate Personal Professional Firewall and MSSE installed (the latter is regularly updating itself), and update and use CCleaner and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware weekly, and nothing is showing up as nasty. I would have thought that I had enough RAM installed - would more RAM improve this situation? If so, should I pull all of those modules and replace them with 1GB per slot? Or am I just being optimistic, given the current motherboard and processor? Thanks for any helpful advice. PS: I have just checked this Belarc Advisor report against the System Control Panel, and under General it says I only have 1GB of RAM? And this made me be more careful and notice that Belarc says I have 1024 MB installed memory, but it shows 4 slots filled with 512MB per slot. What is going on here? |
John H (8) | ||
| 856739 | 2010-02-09 22:01:00 | I would go for 2X2Gb sticks. bla bla windows wont see it all... but it is so cheap now and wont matter if windows wont see it all, it will see most of it. |
Coaster (270) | ||
| 856740 | 2010-02-09 22:07:00 | Do a defrag. When did you last reinstall windows? You could also run disk cleanup. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 856741 | 2010-02-09 22:12:00 | Looks like it supports up to 4 Gb. So may work with 1 x4 GB sticks. But, I would say it wont work with 2 x 2 GB sticks. Since it uses DDR 400. I dont think 2 GB sticks exist | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 856742 | 2010-02-09 22:22:00 | Looks like it supports up to 4 Gb. So may work with 1 x4 GB sticks. But, I would say it wont work with 2 x 2 GB sticks. Since it uses DDR 400. I dont think 2 GB sticks exist Good point. www.gigabyte.com.tw |
Coaster (270) | ||
| 856743 | 2010-02-09 22:24:00 | By my calculations you should have 2GB Slot 'A0' has 512 MB Slot 'A1' has 512 MB Slot 'A2' has 512 MB Slot 'A3' has 512 MB 2048 MB yet Belarc reports 1024 Megabytes Installed Memory So you already have it maxed out and then some:confused: Or it's not compatible (your board supports 4GB max according to one site I looked at). |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 856744 | 2010-02-09 22:26:00 | Belarc is a crap program | Coaster (270) | ||
| 856745 | 2010-02-09 22:47:00 | I *think* there are 2GB DDR sticks....availability of said sticks however is another matter. You have to know that DDR sticks are now old tech and are pretty expensive. I think 4GB DDR would cost you over $150. |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 856746 | 2010-02-09 22:54:00 | Even if 2 GB DDR sticks did exist, each slot only supports up to 1 GB max. On this mobo. The other PC here has XP on it (1.25 GB ram - 1.6 ghz AMD) and did have MSSE on it. And it took forever to do anything. In the end I uninstalled it, and its a lot faster now. Takes about 12-13 secs to boot.And its faster than the other 2 PC's here. All I've got on it is trojan remover and malwarebytes. Thats it. No extra AV program, and no firewall, except XP's firewall | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 856747 | 2010-02-09 23:12:00 | You can also use CPU-Z (www.cpuid.com) to find out how your RAM is currently installed, and their speed too. Might remove some confusion caused by Belarc Advisor. | heni72847 (1166) | ||
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