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How do I find out what kind of RAM I need to buy?
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MikePro
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its a lot easier than you think, but never hurts to double-check
here's another search tool.
here's another search tool.
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It's an HP Pavillion a1700n
David Wright
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Crucial has an online scanner.
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According to the link you gave (crucial) I can fit 4 sticks of 1 gig each. One last question; the 4200 in this "PC2-4200 DDR2 SDRAM" is the speed? Can I buy faster ram and see any advantage or just buy the cheap stuff since the machine is 3 years old? It looks like the faster stuff is only a few bucks more but can it cause issues or?
royster13
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Get Speccy.... But you might be better of with a new computer..... www.tigerdirect.ca has good deals on barebones kits....
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Why do you say that Royster?
royster13
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Because I can not imagine working with only 4gigs of ram with the sort of work we do.....And 3 years old is an antique in computer years....You can put more ram in but you will still have the same slow processor...
Does your computer work with with Ready Boost? That can also be used to add memory....
Does your computer work with with Ready Boost? That can also be used to add memory....
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I've spent the last 3 years with 1 gig of ram. 4 is the most it will take. I was looking at AVG's analyser and it showed that doing very little with my computer was using 750 megs of ram so I thought I would try adding a bit more. Processor use was something like 2% at the time. Things get slow if I add a drop shadow on a large drawing in Corel for example.
I've been looking at new computers and it appears that it's pretty hard to find one with a parallel port. I need at least one but I guess they still have pci slots? I also would like to stick with XP because of drivers. I didn't look but I doubt my plotter has windows 7 drivers available. Maybe I need to talk with a computer guy about what I should get.
You don't thing upping the ram will do anything for me?
WildWestDesigns
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On Windows 7 you can run things in XP compatibility mode as well. That may be the way around the driver issues, however, unless your devices are out-dated, there should be updated drivers specifically for Windows 7.
As to whether or not more RAM will help you, it depends on the limitations of your processor and even your graphics card. You might be able to physically fit 12 GBs of RAM, but your computer might only still recognize only 4.
I personally wouldn't do this stuff now with anything less then 6 and having spent quite a bit of time with 12, I doubt I could even go that low anymore.