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doyle369

doyle369

doyle369

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Hi all

My PC seems quite slow at the moment.
I think I need to get some more Ram and Hard drive space for my gaming pc

Look at the pictures below


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I will proberly buy it all tonight from OC but need your help

People have been saying to me that you cant get more than 2GB ram on XP, but im sticking with XP


I dont want to buy what people suggest and then it wont work..

What do you suggest?



Thanks


Sorry for Re-Post
 
Id recomend you buy 4 gig (2x2gig) of PC6400 800Mhz RAM, that'll speed your system up quite a bit and can be had fairly cheaply, also you can pick up a decent 1 Tb HDD like the Samsung F1 Spinpoint, should solve your storage issues
 
Ok, thanks would you mind finding me the links on OC.. and Ill just get a few more opinions before I buy anything


Thanks
 
yeah get rid of the 2 different makes of ram you have in your pc and get a 4gb 2x2gb kit.
 
2GB of RAM is plenty, your system is clearly running slow because you have no free disk space, but you have probably allocated at least a GB to act as a paging file. Basically you can:
a) delete some stuff to make space for a page file.
b) disable the page file (its kind of useful to have though)
c) buy a bigger hard drive and move some stuff off the current hard drive to the new one.
 
you might as well spend the extra now and get a bigger hard drive or you'll just find yourself in the same position a little while down the road.
 
RAM is Random Access Memory.
Generally the more you have the faster your PC will run.
There is a saturation point on this of course where the amount of RAM you have will make no difference to the performance of your PC.
This is normally considered to be 2GB in XP and 4GB in Vista for 95% of users.
Some will need more, particularly people involved in heavy graphics and encoding activities.
The reason people are recommending 4GB (2x2GB) is because DDR2 RAM is so dam cheap at the moment and it makes sense to buy the 4GB which for XP is overkill.
Your immediate problem and the reason your PC is running like a Dog is because your C Drive is totally choked. Operating Systems need about 10% space on a HDD to run properly.
I suggest you go to Control Panel/add,remove programmes and remove some ***p from your HDD. This will be stuff that is used rarely or never.
It will tell you this in the add/remove programmes window.
Is that the complete HDD or do you have other partitions to move stuff onto ie /D drive?
 
FRS2462 said:
RAM is Random Access Memory.
Generally the more you have the faster your PC will run.
There is a saturation point on this of course where the amount of RAM you have will make no difference to the performance of your PC.
This is normally considered to be 2GB in XP and 4GB in Vista for 95% of users.
Some will need more, particularly people involved in heavy graphics and encoding activities.
The reason people are recommending 4GB (2x2GB) is because DDR2 RAM is so dam cheap at the moment and it makes sense to buy the 4GB which for XP is overkill.
Your immediate problem and the reason your PC is running like a Dog is because your C Drive is totally choked. Operating Systems need about 10% space on a HDD to run properly.
I suggest you go to Control Panel/add,remove programmes and remove some ***p from your HDD. This will be stuff that is used rarely or never.
It will tell you this in the add/remove programmes window.
Is that the complete HDD or do you have other partitions to move stuff onto ie /D drive?
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Ok thanks

Well im going to buy more hard drive, 320GB i think..

But will

4GB (2x2GB)

be okay for my pc?
 
RAM is short for Random Access Memory and it provides space for your computer to read and write data to be accessed by the CPU (central processing unit). When people refer to a computer's memory, they usually mean its RAM.

If you add more RAM to your computer, you reduce the number of times your CPU must read data from your hard disk. This usually allows your computer to work considerably faster, as RAM is many times faster than a hard disk.

RAM is volatile, so data stored in RAM stays there only as long as your computer is running. As soon as you turn the computer off, the data stored in RAM disappears.

Also, you cant mix different types of RAM, like DDR with DDR2.
 
I stand by you should get the 4 gig of RAM, whilst you wont be able to use all of it you will be able to use about 3.5 gig which is healthily more than 2, also its 800Mhz which should be a nice speed boost for you too, and its matched which is important. With the new drive you can either do a fresh install of the new drive and use this as your main HDD, this is prob best as I suspect your existing one is prob 5600rpm, the new one is 7200 so you'll notice a speed upgrade there, you can then copy your old files across from old drive to new drive so you dont lose anything. Your other option (not recomended) is to keep your existing drive as your O/S drive, delete everything else off it, and use the new drive as your storage drive, but as I say I strongly suspect your old drive is only 5600rpm so you'll be better off just binning it tbh
 
95thrifles said:
I stand by you should get the 4 gig of RAM, whilst you wont be able to use all of it you will be able to use about 3.5 gig which is healthily more than 2, also its 800Mhz which should be a nice speed boost for you too, and its matched which is important. With the new drive you can either do a fresh install of the new drive and use this as your main HDD, this is prob best as I suspect your existing one is prob 5600rpm, the new one is 7200 so you'll notice a speed upgrade there, you can then copy your old files across from old drive to new drive so you dont lose anything. Your other option (not recomended) is to keep your existing drive as your O/S drive, delete everything else off it, and use the new drive as your storage drive, but as I say I strongly suspect your old drive is only 5600rpm so you'll be better off just binning it tbh
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Ill prob do your 1st option, and I will Re-Format my pc before I install my new Ram and HD


Thanks





btw, Whats OC delivery like? If I order today when will it come?
 
doyle369 said:
Ok thanks

Well im going to buy more hard drive, 320GB i think..

But will

4GB (2x2GB)

be okay for my pc?
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Yes 4GB (2x2GB) will be fine.
XP will show you that you have 3.25GB once it is installed.
You want to get some PC6400 DDR2 800Mhz RAM.
The Corsair XMS2 CL5 2x2GB Corsair kit or the OCZ Vista Gold which is on special just now will both fine for your needs.OCZ.
 
If you order before 3 should be tomorrow
If you're installing new hard drive theres no need to format the old one as you'll be binning it, unless you're just trying to destroy your personal data before binning it - in which case, delete everyting you can, then run defrag, then format, then bin, job done :D
 
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