Upgrading Ram on desktops / laptops

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ngwenyas

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Hi Peeps

It's been a while since i got my hands dirty when it comes to hardware upgrade etc, i left that market ages ago.

I need to know how I would know when I would be able to upgrade RAM on desktop. What happened is my friend has a Packard bell desktop, 512mb RAM, 100Gb hard drive and a 1.2 GHZ. He loaded Windows 7 and it is terribly slow. I did my A+ agesss ago, never really got to get my hands dirty when it comes to pc hardware (only dealt with mobile data). I want to order some ram for him, atleast 2GB, DDR2. Can this be done? I ran dxdiag but it was too slow to even show specs on that thing. I will install it back to xp or alternatively advise him to buy a new desktop.

Any info will be appreciated.
 
ngwenyas said:
Hi Peeps

It's been a while since i got my hands dirty when it comes to hardware upgrade etc, i left that market ages ago.

I need to know how I would know when I would be able to upgrade RAM on desktop. What happened is my friend has a Packard bell desktop, 512mb RAM, 100Gb hard drive and a 1.2 GHZ. He loaded Windows 7 and it is terribly slow. I did my A+ agesss ago, never really got to get my hands dirty when it comes to pc hardware (only dealt with mobile data). I want to order some ram for him, atleast 2GB, DDR2. Can this be done? I ran dxdiag but it was too slow to even show specs on that thing. I will install it back to xp or alternatively advise him to buy a new desktop.

Any info will be appreciated.
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Hi

I would downgrade back to Windows XP, with that CPU speed and 2GB of memory it will still be dog slow.
 
yea depends on the CPU, u can have as much ram as your heart desires but if the CPU cant crunch the numbers, its still gonna be slow...
 
Thank you guys, might as well build him a new desktop with i5's etc
 
http://windows.microsoft.com/systemrequirements/
If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here's what it takes:

1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)

16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
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That said,run CPU-Z on the machine,to get information on what type of RAM it's using currently,I doubt a machine that age would use DDR2
 
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