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Need to buy more RAM?

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  • malkie76
    malkie76 Posts: 6,170 Forumite
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    Do the install yourself - you'll be shocked at how easy it is and you'll save around £50 versus getting a 'professional' to do the job for you. The slots are super easy to locate (plenty of google image-by-image guides on what to look for) and it's a simple case of pushing the new memory in until it clicks!

    Only advice is to earth yourself while doing *anything* inside your PC.
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  • slinga
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    malkie76 wrote: »
    Do the install yourself - you'll be shocked at how easy it is and you'll save around £50 versus getting a 'professional' to do the job for you. The slots are super easy to locate (plenty of google image-by-image guides on what to look for) and it's a simple case of pushing the new memory in until it clicks!

    Only advice is to earth yourself while doing *anything* inside your PC.

    Agree I found it surprisingly easy.

    I'd just add that you have to push down on the RAM cards during install quite a bit harder than you'd think, to get them in place correctly.

    But dead easy.
    Instructions from Crucial and just in case have a quick look through the bumph which came with your computer.
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  • oldtoolie
    oldtoolie Posts: 750 Forumite
    And while you are in there, clean out the dust with a soft brush and the hoover. This will help the PC run cooler.
  • Isklar
    Isklar Posts: 140 Forumite
    Memory arrived in the post an hour ago and is now installed and my old desktop is running nice and quickly.
    I've given it a good cleaning too. I was amazed at the dust and cobwebs in there.
    It was easy to do - once I got the side panel off (black lever on the back) I could see immediately where the cards were to go. The hardest part was applying enough pressure for long enough for them to clip in.

    It's running fast enough for me to be able to work efficiently, so I'll not do the Windows reinstall just now but will bear it in mind for the future.

    The help I've had here is much appreciated, I definitely couldn't have done it myself without it, thanks to all of you.
  • spaceboy
    spaceboy Posts: 1,933 Forumite
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    prowla wrote: »
    What they've said...

    (I have an older machine, a 1GHz Pentium, that can take a maximum of 512MB.)

    I have the same. One day I will get a new PC, one day...
  • John_Gray
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    Isklar wrote: »
    Memory arrived in the post an hour ago and is now installed and my old desktop is running nice and quickly.
    I've given it a good cleaning too.
    Excellent! Just out of interest, how much new memory did you buy?
  • nesssie1702
    nesssie1702 Posts: 1,346 Forumite
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    edited 18 October 2009 at 12:24PM
    Thanks for all the advice on here - this is something that we've been meaning to do with our Desktop, as there's only 256MB RAM in it at the moment and it get's painfully slow.

    One thing though - how do I work out how much extra RAM I can install? My PC was built for me rather than an off-the shelf package about 5 years ago.

    Just visited the Crucial website and now know that I've definitely got 256 MB of DDR RAM. The PC has 3 memory slots available, so just debating whether to put 1GB in or 512MB......
  • John_Gray
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    Depends to some extent what you use it for (and assuming you have XP).

    If you put 1 GB in, you would be somewhat happier and somewhat poorer than if you put 512 MB in... It's a balance!
  • shuaibf
    shuaibf Posts: 235 Forumite
    Ebuyer is cheap and good quality memory aswell got my 4gb from der for less dan £50 ddr 2 aswell
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  • aliEnRIK
    aliEnRIK Posts: 17,741 Forumite
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    Just be aware that ebay sells a LOT of 'high density' RAM which is useless for most motherboards
    :idea:
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