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This question falls into several categories, so if there's a place where you think it'd be better suited, just move it.
Now, my dad's computer is from 2005. It's a Fujitsu-Siemens Scaleo L. He's not interested in buying anything new as of right now, seeing as how A.) it's never given him any hassle so he's quite fond of it, and B.) it's not a big priority
money-wise right now.
That being said, he's sitting on 256 MB of RAM, which in this day an age is nothing. Even so, I've made sure to tweak his computer and install programs with small memory footprints, which alleviates the problem, to a point.
Furthermore, he's not doing anything too heavy himself. Web surfing, Spotify, audio editing in a rather lightweight program. That kind of stuff. Still, 256 MB is 256 MB, and when he's using multiple programs, things tend to get bogged down. Here are the important specs courtesy of CPU-Z: http://i.imgur.com/Zugmq5q.png
My question is a two-parter of sorts:
1. I was thinking about getting 2x1 GB of never-used RAM for cheap off of a friend to use in my dad's computer. More specifically:
DDR-DIMM-400 Corsair Value Select (PC3200/400MHz CL3)
Memory Configuration - Dual Channel
184-pin
Is this compatible with his motherboard?
2. Assuming it is; will he see any noticeable improvement, or is the processor too much of a bottleneck? My sister has an Asus laptop with a 2 GHz Celeron processor and 3 GB of RAM and it's leagues faster than my dad's
computer. Then again that might have to do with the type of RAM she's got, as well.
Thanks a million in advance!
Now, my dad's computer is from 2005. It's a Fujitsu-Siemens Scaleo L. He's not interested in buying anything new as of right now, seeing as how A.) it's never given him any hassle so he's quite fond of it, and B.) it's not a big priority
money-wise right now.
That being said, he's sitting on 256 MB of RAM, which in this day an age is nothing. Even so, I've made sure to tweak his computer and install programs with small memory footprints, which alleviates the problem, to a point.
Furthermore, he's not doing anything too heavy himself. Web surfing, Spotify, audio editing in a rather lightweight program. That kind of stuff. Still, 256 MB is 256 MB, and when he's using multiple programs, things tend to get bogged down. Here are the important specs courtesy of CPU-Z: http://i.imgur.com/Zugmq5q.png
My question is a two-parter of sorts:
1. I was thinking about getting 2x1 GB of never-used RAM for cheap off of a friend to use in my dad's computer. More specifically:
DDR-DIMM-400 Corsair Value Select (PC3200/400MHz CL3)
Memory Configuration - Dual Channel
184-pin
Is this compatible with his motherboard?
2. Assuming it is; will he see any noticeable improvement, or is the processor too much of a bottleneck? My sister has an Asus laptop with a 2 GHz Celeron processor and 3 GB of RAM and it's leagues faster than my dad's
computer. Then again that might have to do with the type of RAM she's got, as well.
Thanks a million in advance!
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