Thanks for the memories...

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

Quick question which I hope someone more qualified than I can answer!

I have a pretty old Dell pc. It's running a program for my business which works via an SQL server, whatever that is. Runs Windows XP.

Anyway it gets on a right go slow now and again, which is a nightmare when clients are waiting in front of me. Seems to be sometimes when I try to multitask, like iff I have IE and Outlook running in the background as well, but not always.

There's an 80 gig hard drive which has 70 gig free, and i've done defrags.

Have Windows defender and an anti virus, done all the scans, seems clear.

The processor is an Intel Celeron 2.60 Gig.

So we reckon a memory upgrade will help.

So questions are: how do I find out how much memory is already in it? I'm sure i've done this before in control panel or something but I can't seem to find out. I reckon it will be 256 meg so an upgrade to 512 should be ok, or would a gig be better, assuming the pc can support that? Need to find out what's already in it first though.

And what memory type do I buy, I seem to remember there's different types.

Thanks chaps.

[Liszt]

If you have "my computer" on your desktop, right click then click on properties. Should show chip and ram details.

Or Start-> Run... MSInfo.
Or from Outlook Help-> About... System Info

[chris.mapey]

Easy way to check the memory is via the Crucial memory checker.www.crucial.com/uk

Go to the site, click on the scan my system and then order whn it lets you;)

(Or if you are a bit tight like me, get them to scan your system, then open another window onto the internet, and google for the memory recommended. If it's cheaper you win)

HTH

Chris

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

Excellent, love you both.

I have 256 meg as I thought. They're saying that I can plug a 1 gig DIMM into the other slot. Will that work ok alongside the existing 256 meg?

Edited by Ray Luxury-Yacht on Thursday 22 May 14:24

[NickFRP]

Ray Luxury-Yacht said:

Excellent, love you both.

I have 256 meg as I thought. They're saying that I can plug a 1 meg DIMM into the other slot. Will that work ok alongside the existing 256 meg?

i have 4gb of memory in my work PC and still think i needs more. RAM IT UP BABY.

http://www.crucial.com/uk/
great website to tell you what you need

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

Cool, cool, cool, cheers.

Last question, it's offering me pc2700 or pc3400. Says either will work. What's the difference?

[Liszt]

PC3400 is quicker but if your going from 250mb to 2gb then you wont notice the difference between PC3400 and PC2700.

I'd go for 2 sticks of 1gb PC2700 memory and use the 256 stick as a novelty coffee stirer