Siders77 Posted July 27, 2005 Report Share Posted July 27, 2005 Hey there people. I'm after some new RAM for my PC. I don't know much other than my PC is PC2700 and I want 1GB of RAM. I'm really not sure what to get, I have about £50 to spend. Oh, and I have 2 Memory slot things in my PC and what I want to do is buy one stick of 1GB RAM and then get another stick of 1GB RAM. I've been told to look at Corsair, Kingston and Crucial (I think that's the one :"> ) Cheers in advance ;) (Y) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siders77 Posted July 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2005 I just though i'd add a screen shot of CPU-Z to show exactly what I have at the moment. (Y) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted July 27, 2005 Report Share Posted July 27, 2005 Your probably best getting 2x 512mb. Go for anything thats branded avoid no name stuff like 'ebuyer value ram' things like Corsair, OCZ, Geil, Kingston, Etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siders77 Posted July 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2005 Oh right. Cheers Danny. I've just been looking through E-Bay and found This but it says this This RAM will work with almost any PC or workstation that is running a P4 processor and supports DDR RAM. but I have an AMD Sempron Processor. Do you think this will matter? (Y) Cheers for the help so far. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted July 27, 2005 Report Share Posted July 27, 2005 Sempron? Is it a pretty new pc then? Id get some pc3200 (prob cheaper too in this day and age) if i were you. That ebay link seams expensive. Do you know what motherboard you have? CPUZ should give you an idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siders77 Posted July 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2005 Yeah, the PC is fairly new I suppose. CPU-Z Said this is my Mobo. It means nothing to me though :"> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinky Posted July 27, 2005 Report Share Posted July 27, 2005 Should be fine on ram and stuff am I right in thinking xp only supports up to 2 GB and more than that is pointless? pinky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Garland Posted July 27, 2005 Report Share Posted July 27, 2005 (edited) It supports up to 4 anything over it wont expand to use. Basically the more ram you add the more XP uses it :) Which sucks. As for your ram problem, danny would be right PC3200 is best bet as its only what £10 more, also you do have PC2700 at the moment and 3200 will work fine, also Crosshair Value ram is meant to be good, although for £50 I dont think you will find 1gb stick or a 512X2 as 512mb on its own is about £35 if im correct. This is also good its £75 or so 1gb dual channel kit, PC3200 Here Edited July 27, 2005 by Team War Rider Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfboy Posted July 27, 2005 Report Share Posted July 27, 2005 Lowest on Web have good prices for memory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biketrialler Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 It supports up to 4 anything over it wont expand to use. Basically the more ram you add the more XP uses it :) Which sucks. ← Huh? I'd be properly f**ked off if it DIDNT use the ram in your system, what would be the point! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tank_rider Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 as everyone else has said, go for PC3200 RAM, as it will run at the lower speed without any problems and is often these days cheaper!!! I highly doubt that you will need more than 1Gb of RAM unless you do loads of photo manipulation on massive files or video editing, and the sempron isnt really up to either of these. I would recommend getting 2x512Mb sticks as they are usually cheapest option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 I highly doubt that you will need more than 1Gb of RAM unless you do loads of photo manipulation on massive files or video editing, and the sempron isnt really up to either of these. ← The sempron is just a rename of the old tbred b core which has less cache than the barton cores and overall are pretty good. A lot better than celerons at least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tank_rider Posted July 29, 2005 Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 The sempron is just a rename of the old tbred b core which has less cache than the barton cores and overall are pretty good. A lot better than celerons at least. ← I knew that Danny, however i would very much doubt it would be worth pairing up an old thoroughbred b cored CPU with more than a gig of RAM, the processor wont be able to handle any program that would demand all that RAM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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