cpu Problem!

CLLC

Hi MSE's,

My desktop computer which is about 6 years old and has 256 RAM seems to have an extremely high CPU and it keeps freezing .

So my question is can i lower the CPU by adding more neccersary RAM?

Thanks:money:

fwor

If you're doing very memory-intensive tasks then potentially you can reduce the CPU a bit, because it will have to do less swapping data to and from disk - though in that case the i/o to the disk would be the bottleneck, not the CPU.

If you're using any OS prior to Vista, it should run with 256Mb of RAM without freezing (I ran XP for years with that much memory). So something else is wrong with it - possibly incorrect graphics or other drivers, possibly malware.

CLLC

So what should i do?

Conor_3

CLLC wrote: »

Hi MSE's,

My desktop computer which is about 6 years old and has 256 RAM seems to have an extremely high CPU and it keeps freezing .

So my question is can i lower the CPU by adding more neccersary RAM?

Thanks:money:

ABSOLUTELY. Just done a Dell Inspiron 1300 lappy today for a customer. Had 256MB in it. When you closed or opened the browser, you could watch it draw each horizontal line. Hard drive thrashing all the time. And no, it wasn't a virus as it was a clean install I'd just done.

Got 1GB for it for £15.30 from Crucial. Completely different thing. Everything opens instantly, CPU usage down to nothing, hardly any hard drive activity.

If you're runnign XP, nowadays it really needs a minimum of 512MB. This is mostly because of the higher memory requirements browsers now have due to the content on webpages. Currently I've got Firefox 3 with this page and msn.co.uk open. Its memory usage is 164MB :eek: Doesn't leave much left out of 256MB for the rest of the OS and apps, does it?

Conor_3

fwor wrote: »

If you're using any OS prior to Vista, it should run with 256Mb of RAM without freezing (I ran XP for years with that much memory).

Not anymore. I thought that as well but I've had a lappy in this week thats' proven otherwise. Browsers, browser plugins, drivers etc all now have a far larger memory footprint. Been a while since I've seen a PC with under 512MB in.

Juneman

Well it all depends, I would say if it has just started to happen then you might have a virus. But you def need some more ram or a new PC you can get a good tower for £150 which will have 1GB DDR2 Intel dual core CPU and much more

CLLC

Well listen to this...

This was my first ever computer when i got it 5-6 years it cost £700

This includes...
256 RAM
2 ghz
80 GIG hard drive
CD WRITER
FLOPPY DRIVE
CRT MONITOR
LEXMARK PRINTER

and it never had all the good stuff on it like sim ple backup or anything like that

I can truly say i got ripped off

CLLC

Oh yeah

Thanks everyone

Juneman

yeah but that is how it is, You could spend 3000 on a PC now and in 6 months it will be out of date. I use Dabs as my supplier for my business they are very good. Also try scan they are good as well.

CLLC

Does anyone know what will happen if you put the wrong type of RAM in a PC

CLLC

Will it damage it or will it just say not accepted or something?