CPU and memory upgrade time!

BigHairyBloke · 1 Oct 2007 at 13:48

Hi all,

i have an Asus A8V Delux MB with an AMD 64 3000+ cpu and 1gb (2X512mb PC3200 GEIL) RAM.

What is the most cost efective upgrade for the CPU and the memory? I'd like more memory cus i tend to have lots of applications open most of the time and i suspecct the current setup is strugling.

Cheers!

Steve

BigHairyBloke · 1 Oct 2007 at 17:42

Thanks for that. If i'm going the whole hog, is it worth bumping up the RAM to 4GB? Lets say i have £250..what do you suggest? I'd like to keep my nice quiet Zalman Flower cpu cooler tho if poss.

Steve

BigHairyBloke · 1 Oct 2007 at 23:25

I have an Asus V9999 graphics card, but i dont tend to play games..more heavy duty office work, indexing, scanning, file conversion and multiple aplications running. have a sata HD, and 2 IDE drives, a cd burner and dvd burner.

400w power supply. Nowt special.

steve

BigHairyBloke · 2 Oct 2007 at 09:49

Fab, many thanks for your help!

teve

BigHairyBloke · 2 Oct 2007 at 09:53

Oh just noted there is only 2GB there, do i just need to double up on those memory banks? I read something somwhere about if you had large Ram to go for buffered/registered memory? Not sure what thats all about. Also, i forgot to mention i'm using XP Home!

cheers

Steve

BigHairyBloke · 2 Oct 2007 at 22:29

Ok, how about droping the power supply and using the cash to boost the Ram to 4gb..even though i wont be able to use it all?

Steve

BigHairyBloke · 3 Oct 2007 at 10:40

Thanks for that, my Page File is being used up to 1.1GB, so i think the extra 1 GB will help speed things up. I will go with your second suggested upgrade. I think you allowed for 4gb of memory after all looking at the prices!

Many thanks

steve