Question abou RAM

#21

your monay.

#22

I am just going toswitch the 512 for a 1 gig... adds 512 and will run better. If RAM gets cheaper I will max it out, but as it is now I will just run at around 3 gigs of RAM.

#23

Unless you got your motherboard from Sanford and Son, your board will not attempt to run a stick of RAM that is 2700 at the speed of 3200...The increase in number is significant to the amount of data it can handle and process...Mixing and matching sticks is doable, but not recommended...

And unless you have a computer that beasts so levels I hav never seen, you won't see a huge performance gain from adding more RAM to your system, the idea is to find maybe 2 matching Gigs of the best PC3200 RAM you can find, what you'll be looking for is timer ratings, ergo, 5-2-2-2, and then you're cooking with Crisco...If your board is capable of running in dual channell mode, you'd be in for a treat...

Quality...Not quantity...That is always the first rule...

#24

Ya, but how do I figure out if it is capable of doing so? I don't know the first thing about reading hardware configs.

#25

You could look your mobo up on the net...If it has dual channel mode, it'll say so...

#26

Hell, how do I know what MOtherboard I have? I ain't cracking this bad boy open and poking around or anything. I know there are some programs that do it... but I don't know what exactly I am looking at.

#27

Hmm...There is a Diagnostic program in the workshop that I posted, it should be able to tell you...

Or you may be able to find out by going to Start > Run > and typing msinfo32

#28

Ok, here is what I see:

OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name YOUR-8DB01B8694
System Manufacturer Gateway
System Model T6420
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 47 Stepping 2 AuthenticAMD ~2209 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 080012, 11/15/2005
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:WINDOWS
System Directory C:WINDOWSsystem32
Boot Device DeviceHarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"
User Name YOUR-8DB01B8694Owner
Time Zone Mountain Daylight Time
Total Physical Memory 2,560.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 1.72 GB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 3.53 GB
Page File C:pagefile.sys

I don't see a motherboard on there.

#29

UPDATE

I downloaded BIOS Agent and this is what it says:

BIOS Type: American Megatrends
CHIPSET: AMD 1100 rev 0
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3400+

#30

System Manufacturer Gateway /sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad.gif" /> I seriously doubt they'd hook you up with something nifty, like dual channel...

Why is your paging file so big..? You don't need it that big w/that much RAM...