Why is my PC so damn slow???

purplepatch

highlighter wrote:

The 'eek' man is because youve been running xp with very little ram:cool:

£42 does seem a little steep-perhaps if you post you pc details here- or if you post the crucial page which shows the type of ram you need-then you might get help in lowering the price:D

See above

ACID

bascially you have upgraded to the most powerful operating system which is windows xp which has quite high system requirements such as a decent amount of memory and ram is required to use it, but dont worry xp is fine

however as you have only updated your operating system

you pc detaisl are stilll quite old
if you have 120mb then your ram will be maybe 64 whic is very slow
im unsure if your pc can handle a 512mb of ram
therfore buy a 256mb

however these come in dividual chips

therefore depedning on the number of memroy slots you have i suggest you can good amount for 3 slots
but do not exceed the total of 512mb at all

new pcs are cheap have you considered another one by chance?

highlighter

ACID wrote:

bascially you have upgraded to the most powerful operating system which is windows xp which has quite high system requirements such as a decent amount of memory and ram is required to use it, but dont worry xp is fine

however as you have only updated your operating system

you pc detaisl are stilll quite old
if you have 120mb then your ram will be maybe 64 whic is very slow
im unsure if your pc can handle a 512mb of ram
therfore buy a 256mb

however these come in dividual chips

therefore depedning on the number of memroy slots you have i suggest you can good amount for 3 slots
but do not exceed the total of 512mb at all

new pcs are cheap have you considered another one by chance?

I think from what i understand the op's pc came with xp.

Also i would say you have a 128mb stick of ram with 8mb being allocated for graphics.

Purplep if you post a link to the crucial page that would help, ta

purplepatch

ACID wrote:

bascially you have upgraded to the most powerful operating system which is windows xp which has quite high system requirements such as a decent amount of memory and ram is required to use it, but dont worry xp is fine

however as you have only updated your operating system

you pc detaisl are stilll quite old
if you have 120mb then your ram will be maybe 64 whic is very slow

Just to clarify, I didn't upgrade anything, this was the original spec of the pc I bought. Oh and it's actually 120mb of ram

purplepatch

highlighter wrote:

I think from what i understand the op's pc came with xp.

Also i would say you have a 128mb stick of ram with 8mb being allocated for graphics.

Purplep if you post a link to the crucial page that would help, ta

Cheers highlighter, you seem to know where I'm coming from

Here's the link.

:beer:

ACID

cool following that go for the 256mb
however cheaper can be found
also try ebay but usisng the same info as this 168-pin DIMM SDRAM, PC133

purplepatch

ACID wrote:

cool following that go for the 256mb
however cheaper can be found
also try ebay but usisng the same info as this 168-pin DIMM SDRAM, PC133

That brings up 65 items, would any 256mb be compatible then regardless of the number that begins CT??

ACID

nah it wont some have a different chip density and others bits which wont match

buying them will just mean the item wont function but you pc will still be slow

try this as well

http://www.memoryx.com/

select check computer option on the left

see if it brings up more info

highlighter

It says you can have 512mb so i woul say take out the 128 and put the max 512 in-this hsould be fine. However if anyone knows different, please say.

These are on ebay

Edit: Some of the sellers on ebay ask to eamil for compatibility-if u mail them the crucial link they should double check for you

purplepatch

ACID wrote:

buying them will just mean the item wont function but you pc will still be slow

Can I just ask you to clarify what you mean by this? Ta.