Question Dell Desktop

[Hokeywolf]

I have a Dell 3847. Born with W-8 and now has W-10. It has two sticks of memory at 4 GB each. It boots and loads rather slowly, but once it gets all loaded, it runs along just fine. I wondered if more memory might help it "get up and go" a little quicker? What would you recommend? I thought a couple of 8 GB sticks would do giving a total of 16 GB.

My second question has to do with my other PC. A Lenovo K330 with W-7. It has one stick at 8 GB and three more at 2 GB each for a total of 14 GB. This machine works just fine. Is it true that is the memory sticks are different GB's the machine will run at the speed of the smallest one? Thanks

 

[drivinfast247]

I have a Dell 3847. Born with W-8 and now has W-10. It has two sticks of memory at 4 GB each. It boots and loads rather slowly, but once it gets all loaded, it runs along just fine. I wondered if more memory might help it "get up and go" a little quicker? What would you recommend? I thought a couple of 8 GB sticks would do giving a total of 16 GB.

My second question has to do with my other PC. A Lenovo K330 with W-7. It has one stick at 8 GB and three more at 2 GB each for a total of 14 GB. This machine works just fine. Is it true that is the memory sticks are different GB's the machine will run at the speed of the smallest one? Thanks

A ssd would be the best bet for a little more speed out of that dinosaur.

And in regards to the second question; yes, for the most part.

 

[Eximo]

Memory is cheap, so adding it won't be too costly. But yes, if you are still on a hard drive, that is the main thing keeping the system from starting up quickly.

Just consider that you can get used whole desktops with 16GB or more of memory, relatively cheaply.