geting more rams

**ChiangMai noon** · 06-04-2007, 08:02 PM

My computer is quite slow.
it performs admirably under pressure but it definitely needs more rammage.
So what do I do?

I go to the computer plaza place on the super highway.
I tell them I need more Rams.....
It's here that i start faling down.

Do I need a specific multiple of the already housed rams?
My computer has a measly 256 of them.
Do I have to get another 256 or can I get 512 to go with my 256.

After I have done this, what next?
Is putting them in very easy?

**blackgang** · 06-04-2007, 08:10 PM

I think you can just buy the sticks that you want to add, we junked a tower while back and I put the sticks out of it in another that we set up for a "give to the school PC".

**Thetyim** · 06-04-2007, 08:45 PM

You should get Ram of the same speed as your existing ones or it will just work at the lower speed.
No need to match the size providing you don't have dual channel

Oh, you need to match type. have you got DDR or DDR2 ?

**ChiangMai noon** · 06-04-2007, 08:47 PM

Originally Posted by Thetyim

Oh, you need to match type. have you got DDR or DDR2 ?

I don't know.

**dirtydog** · 06-04-2007, 09:01 PM

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

geting more rams

Only a Welsh Man or a Aussie could start a thread called this

PS, they just are a push fit, unclip your old one and take it down the shop and buy a similar one.

**slimboyfat** · 06-04-2007, 09:12 PM

check out this page to help you identifying your RAMS

Installing RAM replacement - Illustrated How to Install RAM Memory Replacement DIMM

trust me this is one of the easiest things to upgrade

and you know i am a bit of a technophobe right? amongst other things

**blackgang** · 06-04-2007, 09:19 PM

DD said

Only a Welsh Man or a Aussie could start a thread called this

Yea I kinda wondered when I opened it, thought maybe he was falling behind and needed some help with his ewes, only I was wrong and so were you DD.

**man with no head** · 06-04-2007, 10:30 PM

CMN: download this utility and it will tell you your RAM type and how many pieces you have.

|MG| Free Download - CPU-Z 1.39

Write down what you have and go buy yourself a single 1GB stick. That'll be plenty.

**ChiangMai noon** · 06-04-2007, 10:31 PM

Sorry, I didn't d/l that the last time you gave me the link and then I couldn't find it.
will do that right now.

**ChiangMai noon** · 06-04-2007, 10:40 PM

Originally Posted by surasak

CMN: download this utility and it will tell you your RAM type and how many pieces you have.

the utility is open but I'm not sure where it tells me what I have to buy?

**ChiangMai noon** · 06-04-2007, 10:41 PM

Originally Posted by Thetyim

Oh, you need to match type. have you got DDR or DDR2 ?

DDR apparantly.

Write down what you have and go buy yourself a single 1GB stick. That'll be plenty.

then I just clip it in and it updates itself automatically?
no other fiddling?

**man with no head** · 06-04-2007, 11:04 PM

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

then I just clip it in and it updates itself automatically?
no other fiddling?

That's it (assuming the stick you buy is OK).

**lom** · 06-04-2007, 10:42 PM

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

the utility is open but I'm not sure where it tells me what I have to buy?

Post a screenshot

**ChiangMai noon** · 06-04-2007, 10:43 PM

OK.

**man with no head** · 06-04-2007, 10:47 PM

Click on the tab called 'memory.'

**slimboyfat** · 06-04-2007, 10:48 PM

you might find that your PC motherboard will only take so much RAM

for example my old piece of shit that i am using now is only upgradeable to 1GB of RAM. even if i stick 1GB of RAM in each slot it still will only use 1GB (512 MB for each of the 2 slots)

but really you need at least 512 MB for reasonable performance if you are using Windows XP.

**man with no head** · 06-04-2007, 10:50 PM

And then the one called 'SPD.' You'll get information shown here:

**keda** · 06-04-2007, 11:00 PM

Originally Posted by surasak

And then the one called 'SPD.' You'll get information shown here:

The only time I used CPU-Z was to impress a visitor...but to be brutally frank, if you can make sense of it I want to have your baby.

**ChiangMai noon** · 06-04-2007, 10:53 PM

there you go

**lom** · 06-04-2007, 10:54 PM

We need a screenshot of the SPD tab, CMn.

**man with no head** · 06-04-2007, 11:03 PM

There's quite a bunch of useful information there all rolled up into one small utility. For the supernerds it's important to match up certain RAM sticks (the manufacturing date is helpful for this) for the best compatibility if one wants to overclock the CPU. If I didn't want to bother taking a customer's computer apart I simply inserted a floppy and ran this utility. It's a shame Microsoft doesn't put something like this in Windows. Even MacOS X tells you stuff like this in the System Profiler.

**lom** · 06-04-2007, 11:04 PM

Originally Posted by keda

if you can make sense of it I want to have your baby.

Is it "Manufacturing Date" giving you trouble ?

**ChiangMai noon** · 06-04-2007, 11:07 PM

The things I do for you lot...

**man with no head** · 06-04-2007, 11:10 PM

Can you post the CPU tab as well? It looks like your RAM is being overclocked. That might explain some of your computer's strange behavior (PC2300 is not a standard memory type).

**lom** · 06-04-2007, 11:16 PM

You've got a slow and dumb ramstick (no error cortection, not buffered, not registered).
You can either buy another one of those, keywords Apacer PC2300 256MBytes for a total of 512.
I would scrap it and buy 2 * 512MBytes of a better type..

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