BOB.T

Hi

This PC is about 2 years old now, 3.2 dual core thingy and 1gb of RAM. I've just had a look on crucial and I can get another 1gb of RAM for £23. Is there any point? Photoshop is struggling a widgy bit to open a few files at once...when I say struggle, it's not quite as fast as it was but is by no means wheezing.

memory just seems so cheap, would it be daft not to?

This is the memory crucial suggest though I'm not fussed about the LEDs as you can't see in the case, 1GB, Ballistix Tracer 240-pin DIMM (with LEDs), DDR2 PC2-6400 upgrades for ASUS P5VDC-X Motherboard, CT632633 from Crucial.com

Bob

ScoobyDoo555

yes. whack it in there

Dan

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

yup, extra ram is always a big
Photoshop uses the memory in its own way and improves with the extra

BOB.T

Tis ordered

Shark Man

Yeah, go for it; can never have too much

How many sticks of RAM do you alteady have?

If you only have one, then it will only work in single channel. Add another stick of the same size and speed and you'll get dual channel.

BOB.T

There's only one stick in there atm, 1gb.

I think there are another two slots but I think they're for different sticks...can I whack some in there for good measure

finalzero

2gb if your using Vista, if your on Vista 64bit go for 4gb

ozzy

agree, 2Gb for Vista if you want it to whizz along nicely.

BOB.T

It's still on XP, no plans to change as yet

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

sal only wants PS to do silly pictures of people's faces...hardly cutting edge stuff

BOB.T

^^whilst running 27 MSN windows

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

and having itunes open, 47 tabs in internet explorer, loads of pop ups, some customised icons, pointers and desktops etc etc and that is followed by

Bob, this laptop is crap, its really slow !!!

BOB.T

Her laptop is really slow actually...can you put more RAM in them? :Supiciou

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

of course you can , its the same process as you did with the desktop using crucial's advisor tool.

BOB.T

Hmm, may have to investigate

Crucial's advisor tool got a munk on when trying to scan this PC. Don't know if it makes a difference but we had it built to our spec from bits. I had to manually look up the motherboard. Manaul labour, in this day and age!

Scoobychick

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How dare you!

I don't use Internet Explorer

BOB.T

Just popped it in, works a treat! PS just opened 60 3mb photos with falling over so that's good