Wow! I’m SO excited! SO THAT’s how to add RAM and not pay somebody $100 bux to do it! A friend of mine told me over the phone just how easy it is and now that I SEE it for myself…I realize they were right! Thanks so much for this quick, simple, yet POWERFUL tutorial! YouTube, ROCKS!!
if you put more than 6Gb of ram in you will be wasting money by the time games or software need that much your motherboard will be out of date and your new motherboard will use another type of ram. 3GB is plenty for todays most hungry aps any more than that is like adding more fule tanks to a car to make it go faster.
thats heaps but
its depends on the amount of stuff you use
if you got it for Microsoft word, messenger and printing important documents and don’t play games or use any massive software on it 1GB is perfect dude.
@Raymondlk Adding RAM does not affect and of your files, after installing the new RAM your computer will look the same and have all of your settings, it will just be zippyer.
Think of it like a car almost, if I switch from unleaded to premium that dosent affect any your dashboard or ‘delete’ any CD’s in your car, it just gives you better performance.
PS…check out How Stuff Works for an explanation of the 3 types of memory in your PC. Basically a PC uses (1) RAM for operating, and your processors draw on (2) cached memory from the hard drive when really busy (known as ‘paging’) and (3) yr PC uses hard disk or external storage space to ‘save’ completed operations as files.
Files aren’t held in RAM. RAM is used for operation not for storage. When you save files they are saved to hard disk space, (or an external medium of your choosing) not in RAM. They won’t be affected. However, you shld in any case back up all folders containing your files to an external storage device regularly and definitely before any modification to your PC. Then if data in the PC shld somehow be affected you can just load those folders back in when all is fixed.
It depends on your OS. Your OS reqs a min. But it will detect a certain amount. Upgrade your OS to 64-bit versions or higher if you are going higher than 2GB.
yup at craiglist I saw 516MB for 8 bucks.
1GB is still good today. (PS3 has 516MB). The difference in today’s technology is DDR1s 2s and 3s and the speed of the RAM.
there could be a lot of stuff that are interfering with the speed of your computer.
FYI PS3 has 512MB of RAM
first, clean your computer of dust (physical cleaning) then clean the ram with one of those programs that defrags and cleans unused memory if cleaning fails, you maybe have a defective ram. reinstall them to double check
516 is good bach hen, modern apps and other things require more ram today, then when this video was made.
my 3gb is good, but i use 100% of my ram aoften. i was thinking of upgrading to 4 gb.
Wow! I’m SO excited! SO THAT’s how to add RAM and not pay somebody $100 bux to do it! A friend of mine told me over the phone just how easy it is and now that I SEE it for myself…I realize they were right! Thanks so much for this quick, simple, yet POWERFUL tutorial! YouTube, ROCKS!!
if you put more than 6Gb of ram in you will be wasting money by the time games or software need that much your motherboard will be out of date and your new motherboard will use another type of ram. 3GB is plenty for todays most hungry aps any more than that is like adding more fule tanks to a car to make it go faster.
Funny how people pay $50 for geek squad to install the RAM on their computer. BIG waste of money when you could do it yourself…
Having more never hurts, it saves you having to buy more when new operating systems are released, for example; Windows 8!
thats heaps but
its depends on the amount of stuff you use
if you got it for Microsoft word, messenger and printing important documents and don’t play games or use any massive software on it 1GB is perfect dude.
The higher the GHz the better.
For example mine is Intel Core 2 Quad 2.5GHz.
Ohhhhh you got me D:
I have 4 slots on here though, so I might invest in some more RAM.
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@Azimon An OS is your operating system, the few most common examples are; Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, mac OSX.
@Raymondlk Adding RAM does not affect and of your files, after installing the new RAM your computer will look the same and have all of your settings, it will just be zippyer.
Think of it like a car almost, if I switch from unleaded to premium that dosent affect any your dashboard or ‘delete’ any CD’s in your car, it just gives you better performance.
@georgegee12345 You think 4Gb is good? Talk to me when you’ve got my 12gb
1GB or RAM? that’s shit! I have 4GB!
awesome!
PS…check out How Stuff Works for an explanation of the 3 types of memory in your PC. Basically a PC uses (1) RAM for operating, and your processors draw on (2) cached memory from the hard drive when really busy (known as ‘paging’) and (3) yr PC uses hard disk or external storage space to ‘save’ completed operations as files.
Files aren’t held in RAM. RAM is used for operation not for storage. When you save files they are saved to hard disk space, (or an external medium of your choosing) not in RAM. They won’t be affected. However, you shld in any case back up all folders containing your files to an external storage device regularly and definitely before any modification to your PC. Then if data in the PC shld somehow be affected you can just load those folders back in when all is fixed.
So if I replace my RAM, I’ll have none of my files in the new one?
Can I like frequently switch back and forth between RAM’s?
maybe your processor isn’t powerful enough.
wat ur OS?
Reinstall or upgrade your OS
don’t apologize for your English. At least your learning =)
RAM is RAM. You can mix pizza from Pizza Hut and from Domino’s in your tummy all the same. Just make sure they physically fit in your computer.
It depends on your OS. Your OS reqs a min. But it will detect a certain amount. Upgrade your OS to 64-bit versions or higher if you are going higher than 2GB.
yup at craiglist I saw 516MB for 8 bucks.
1GB is still good today. (PS3 has 516MB). The difference in today’s technology is DDR1s 2s and 3s and the speed of the RAM.
there could be a lot of stuff that are interfering with the speed of your computer.
FYI PS3 has 512MB of RAM
first, clean your computer of dust (physical cleaning) then clean the ram with one of those programs that defrags and cleans unused memory if cleaning fails, you maybe have a defective ram. reinstall them to double check