At the moment I have - DDR333 or 400mhz SDRAM, non ECC, (dual channel?), 512mb x 2, 166mhz, pc2700, Intel 865GV chipset.
I'd like to upgrade to 2gb (that's the maximum the system supports anyway). My questions are - What does DIMM mean/is it significant? Should I find out what mother boards the new memory is compatible with? Which PC standard do I want, does it matter? Is it OK to put higher MHZ memory in?
Hope that makes enough sense for someone to help me. Happy to provide any important informationthatI've left out. I have a Dell Dimension 3000.
Any help would be great thanks, Gavin.
I'd recommend you to donwload and run cpu-z, then post some screenshots to see what kind of memory you have...
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I'd recommend you to donwload and run cpu-z, then post some screenshots to see what kind of memory you have...
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I have CPU-Z, and Fraps for screenshots but I can't seem to use Fraps for screenies of CPU-Z?
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Use alt-printscreen and paste it into paint
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yes, or just type here all the info about memory that the program shows
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Thanks for the screenie advice. Sorry can't post more - apparently this is my upload limit. Basically I want more RAM to get the best/improve frame rate, from a game I'm playing just now.
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At the moment I have - DDR333 or 400mhz SDRAM, non ECC, (dual channel?), 512mb x 2, 166mhz, pc2700, Intel 865GV chipset.
I'd like to upgrade to 2gb (that's the maximum the system supports anyway). My questions are - What does DIMM mean/is it significant? Should I find out what mother boards the new memory is compatible with? Which PC standard do I want, does it matter? Is it OK to put higher MHZ memory in?
Hope that makes enough sense for someone to help me. Happy to provide any important informationthatI've left out. I have a Dell Dimension 3000.
Any help would be great thanks, Gavin.
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as you can see, you have 2 ram sticks in dual channel. you have ddr memory wich runs at 166 mhz (333ddr). I believe that if you add more ram you will disable the dual channel support..
you can add a 400 mhz stick, but you must configure it to run at 333mhz.
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I thought this might help. The only thing different is I added a NVidia 6200 card.
http://support.euro.dell.com/support....htm#wp1075776
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I thought this might help. The only thing different is I added a NVidia 6200 card.
http://support.euro.dell.com/support....htm#wp1075776
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I don't speak english very well, but if memory connectors means memory slots, then you'll have to sell one of your sticks to add more ram, because that page says your computer has only two "memory connectors"
you can sell both sticks and buy two 1gb ddr400 sticks, but I don't know if it's worth it...
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Yes, it has 2 memory slots. I would say the best way to improve your framerate would be to get a faster video card. You have 1GB of RAM now, it might not be PC3200 but 2GB of PC3200 would do less for you than a faster video card.
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