PC Memory question..

[tommyboy]

Right I'm not all that uber geeky techy with PC's so I'd like some help.

My Dad has a pc, about 4 years old now, was put together by someone else, I have no idea what it's made up of entirely but I believe it's either 256MB or 512MB memory. Does that seem right?

I've been on ebuyer looking at desktop memory, but see theres different typres such as SDR, DDR, DDR2 etc...

I wana get upgrade the memory on his pc as it's pretty slow was thinking of taking it to 2 gig, same as my Dell as that's pretty quick, but how do I know what type of memory it is? And if there's a limit on how much I can put in?!

Sorry for the noobyness I don't really have much idea when it comes to pc memory :S

Cheers in advance

 

[Darren S]

I'd download Sandra2007 Lite from the following site, m8. Gives you loads of details as to the innards of the PC and will help clarify the exact spec of memory that you have....

http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/index.html?dir=&location=downandbuy&langx=en&a=

D.

 

[tommyboy]

I'd download Sandra2007 Lite from the following site, m8. Gives you loads of details as to the innards of the PC and will help clarify the exact spec of memory that you have....

http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/index.html?dir=&location=downandbuy&langx=en&a=

D.

cheers matey. downloaded it and had a look it says I've got 2 slots of

"DDR-SDRAM" so I guess for my dad's pc I'd just buy whatever it says on that one?

 

[Darren S]

Does it give anything more specific on it? Like PC2100 or something?

I'm guessing off it's age, it's likely to be either PC2100 or PC2700 memory. PC3200 did the rounds for a while as well, but came along a bit too late for most people to buy it.

The next issue you'll have is how many slots you have and what the capacity is of each slot? Some older motherboards may only allow 512MB per slot, though 1GB is more common.

Does Sandra provide any information regarding the motherboard? If it does, we can easily determine what capacities it has from the manufacturers website.

I'd rather hassle you with 20 questions now, than suggest a product code that could be completely wrong!

D.

 

[Final Maxim]

drop the ram out and read the sticker, if its 4 years old ide expect it to be 184 pin 2100 266mhz 512 ddr

if im right, im god

 

[Ibanezman]

drop the ram out and read the sticker, if its 4 years old ide expect it to be 184 pin 2100 266mhz 512 ddr

if im right, im god

You guessed mine right lol, have a gold star :star:

It's hard finding places to upgrade the old ram for good prices, i'll post a link in a min where I was gonna buy from

 

[Swish]

Check http://www.crucial.com/uk/ it also has a memory checker to tell you what you have and what you need. Its always worth getting good quality memory.

 

[Final Maxim]

drop the ram out and read the sticker, if its 4 years old ide expect it to be 184 pin 2100 266mhz 512 ddr

if im right, im god

You guessed mine right lol, have a gold star :star:

It's hard finding places to upgrade the old ram for good prices, i'll post a link in a min where I was gonna buy from

ty

and yeah, i was gonna upgrade my old pc with some 2100 266mhz ram and it was cheaper to get the 3200 400mhz

 

[tommyboy]

cheers for the replies guys