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 Nov 26 2006, 04:27 PM
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 New son Donovan Charles Mummert born July 17, 2008 Group: Members Posts: 8,635 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Port Wentworth, GA Member No.: 15  |
Finally decided to upgrade my home-built computer. I just installes a new 160 gig hard drive to add to the 250 I already have. I want to add two more sticks of 256 ram to make a gig (i know, I should have done this a long time ago). I have a couple of questions.
1) Power supply: Mine is only 380 watts. Should I upgrade that too? Can I wait to upgrade until I get the new ram or should I now since I just added the new hard drive? I dont know shit about power. 2) Ram has to be added in equal increments, right? I currently have 2 sticks of pc3200 ddr sdram 256 mb so im at 512 total. If i wanted to add two sticks of 512 to give me a 1.5 gigs could I do that instead of adding 2 more 256 to equal a total gig? Are there motherboard/processor limits that could play a role in how much ram im allowed to add? pc3200 ddr only comes in 184 pin, right? If my questions dont make much sense, sorry. I dont know shit about power or ram. Any info you could give me would be great. THANKS |
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Nov 27 2006, 09:36 PM
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 Retired Funk-bringer Group: Moderators Posts: 2,656 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Dallas Member No.: 14 |
QUOTE (impala454 @ Nov 27 2006, 08:43 AM)  geez what the hell do you use 410 GB for? i had 1.5TB of storage before my new maxtor failed on me. sad thing is, all of it's ATA, not SATA. i'm so fucking screwed when i decide to upgrade. (although i need to already) biggest problem i have is that when i upgrade, it's going to cost a fortune. Even for just a new video card, i'd need a machine with PCIE, which means i'd have to upgrade my motherboard, and my processor, then i'd have to upgrade my ram to DDR2, and while i'm at it I might as well upgrade to sata (i'll just get an ATA PCIE board until I have the need for new drives, and just get an 80gb 10kRPM sata drive for the system drive), and hell, my case is falling apart, might as well get a new one of those too. Only thing I can really keep, aside from periphrials, is my sound card, and even that's antiquated (sound blaster live 5.1, only 16bit.) seriously, it's gonna cost me a fucking fortune. -------------------- WAIT. I'm not finished.
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Jessica upgrade questions Nov 26 2006, 04:27 PM
Jessica man, some fucking nerds yall are....
I got my ans... Nov 26 2006, 10:29 PM lamont's lament posting itt Nov 26 2006, 10:31 PM zetec extra ram doesn't take significant power, and ... Nov 27 2006, 03:10 AM impala454 geez what the hell do you use 410 GB for? Nov 27 2006, 08:43 AM
Divergent Reality QUOTE (impala454 @ Nov 27 2006, 08:43 AM)... Nov 27 2006, 09:32 AM impala454 jessica does this? i was asking her what she does... Nov 27 2006, 02:08 PM Jessica I currently have 120 gigs of music that I wanted t... Nov 27 2006, 05:41 PM impala454 yeah my last couple drive purchases doomed my last... Nov 27 2006, 11:42 PM Jessica whats the downfall to ATA as opposed to SATA?
Ive... Nov 28 2006, 08:24 PM zetec realistically, there's not a huge speed differ... Nov 29 2006, 06:00 PM Jessica well, yeah, i knew the obvious difference. I mean,... Nov 29 2006, 08:26 PM zetec don't get too excited; SATA II started rolling... Nov 30 2006, 12:04 PM Jessica QUOTE (zetec @ Nov 30 2006, 12:04 PM) don... Nov 30 2006, 06:22 PM |
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