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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Gav on December 08, 2006, 03:50:21 AM

Title: Quick pc ram question
Post by: Gav on December 08, 2006, 03:50:21 AM

Hi
I really need some extra ram for my pc as i believe it has about 112mb?Which of course is gone very fast considering i have xp..
Is there anyway i can find out what ram to buy without opening my pc?
The pc is a AMD Athlon xp 2000+ 1.67ghz if that is any help,cheers.

Title: Re: Quick pc ram question
Post by: amiga92570 on December 08, 2006, 04:10:42 AM

I would say it is DDR 2100 ,but if you pray real hard it might come to you in your sleep.  :angel:

Title: Re: Quick pc ram question
Post by: Linchpin on December 08, 2006, 08:19:18 AM

If you go to the Crucual website... they have a memory locator.

Title: Re: Quick pc ram question
Post by: miles on December 08, 2006, 09:06:34 AM

Hi,

You can try CPU-Z and SIW.EXE they both tell what is inside your computer now, CPU-Z tells the installed memory speed both tell the motherboard model and revision.  Hope this helps.

Title: Re: Quick pc ram question
Post by: coldfish on December 08, 2006, 09:08:30 AM

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Gav wrote:
Is there anyway i can find out what ram to buy without opening my pc?

Behold its CPU-Z!


http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

Free download.

enjoy.

edit: miles, you beat me by 0:02.

Title: Re: Quick pc ram question
Post by: X-ray on December 08, 2006, 09:30:01 AM

@ Gav

It is likely to be DDR2100.

Title: Re: Quick pc ram question
Post by: sir_inferno on December 08, 2006, 11:00:56 AM

errr...am i missing something?

athlon xp's pretty much stop at around 400mhz for their fsb...

hence you would want ddr400/pc3200's

Title: Re: Quick pc ram question
Post by: DonP1 on December 08, 2006, 05:00:06 PM

I have the same processor in a system and it uses SDRAM, not DDR. You need to know what motherboard/chipset you are using and what the speed of your system bus is (in case it's overclocked like mine).

Title: Re: Quick pc ram question
Post by: snowman040 on December 08, 2006, 07:42:48 PM

CPU-Z -> About tab -> Registers Dump.TXT and attach that file for us to see :-)

Title: Re: Quick pc ram question
Post by: amiga92570 on December 08, 2006, 08:31:09 PM

athlon XP 2000 should have 133 or 266 FSB. The 1.67 should be 133x12.5 clock ratio. If you go into your bios it should say which memory DDR or SDRAM is used. Some older boards use SDRAM. Some use both, and most newer boards use DDR.

Title: Re: Quick pc ram question
Post by: Gav on December 08, 2006, 09:00:37 PM

Hey
Thanks for the all the replies ppl as i now know the speed of the ram is 133 and is SD ram,and aswell as having an agp2.0 slot...On board graphics are supposed to be pretty crap yeah?Can anyone recommend an OK graphics card just to improve performance a bit.
Thanks a lot.

Title: Re: Quick pc ram question
Post by: Tomas on December 08, 2006, 09:06:41 PM

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amiga92570 wrote:
I would say it is DDR 2100 ,but if you pray real hard it might come to you in your sleep.  :angel:

It can be sdram as well..

Title: Re: Quick pc ram question
Post by: Tomas on December 08, 2006, 09:07:46 PM

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athlon xp's pretty much stop at around 400mhz for their fsb...

You can use upto xp2400 in a old kt133a mobo, which has sdram. If he has such a board, then the ddr ram would not even physically fit.

Title: Re: Quick pc ram question
Post by: snowman040 on December 08, 2006, 09:38:10 PM

@Gav: get anything that is AGP VGA (ATI 7000-> , NVIDIA GF2 ->) and you'll get at least 200% graphics speed boost. Check if you HAVE AGP slot on that motherboard... :-)