Quick qu. on RAM upgrade

animeguitarist · 19 Mar 2011 at 00:57

I'm thinkin of updating one of my older builds to get a bit more life out of it. It runs on vista with 2Gb of RAM and I'm thinking of upgrading to 4Gb.

So i was wondering can i just stick the ram sticks in or will i hav to do stuff to the bios or reinstall windows or anything like that?

cheers

Shadz · 19 Mar 2011 at 01:04

If your installing RAM then just put the new sticks in then boot the PC back
up again and windows will recognize there is more RAM in the PC, if you are running
a 32bit version of windows though, windows will only notice 3.5gig of RAM.
Were as if you have 64bit it will notice up to 16gig of RAM.

Hope this helps.

animeguitarist · 19 Mar 2011 at 03:49

Yeah, that really helps. Thanks dude and thanks for the quick reply.

cjgardens · 19 Mar 2011 at 06:16

Should make a big difference the extra ram. Vista is a bit slow on 2gb

animeguitarist · 19 Mar 2011 at 18:28

aye am hopin it will. cheers

pastymuncher · 19 Mar 2011 at 19:04

If it's not exactly the same stuff you will need to go into the bios and change timings, voltage etc.

animeguitarist · 22 Mar 2011 at 20:34

cheers. av ordered 2Gb of geil DDR2 memory. the reviews say it works better with the voltages tweaked. thanx everyone for ya help.