Recommended Ram

Hi I am new too this forum very nice site and hope I'm posting this in the right spot I my self am running win 7 RTM Final and have 2gig's ddr MHz ram should i invest in getting 2 more gigs is it worth it ? Also would it be worth while to get a sata hdd ? this win7 works great after vista refused too run on my current system :)

Yes invest in another 2GB of ram and make it a total of 4. As for the HD, Sata is really not all that much faster than IDE but if you can go for the new technology in hard drives now called SSD's (Solid State Drive). Immensely faster than any SATA hard drive today!

Archangel83 said:

Hi I am new too this forum very nice site and hope I'm posting this in the right spot I my self am running win 7 RTM Final and have 2gig's ddr MHz ram should i invest in getting 2 more gigs is it worth it ? Also would it be worth while to get a sata hdd ? this win7 works great after vista refused too run on my current system :)

Nope, it won't be worth the extra cash. You're running a P4 system, so 2 gigs of RAM should be more than enough, even for games and other heavy applications. Plus, DDR1 400 is getting quite expensive these days.

A SATA HDD will provide extra bandwidth for the demands of modern software.

tw33k said:

I just picked up 2x1gb sticks of DDR 400 for $90 at an online store here in oz. That's a good price. The OP's mainboard supports up to 4gb and if he's got the cash he should definately grab more RAM

That is quite sad honestly. For $72 I could get a 4 GB set (2 x 2 GB) of DDR2 1066. Or for $90 DDR2 1200.

tw33k said:

I just picked up 2x1gb sticks of DDR 400 for $90 at an online store here in oz.

logicearth; said:

That is quite sad honestly.

Older RAM such as DDR 400 is generally more expensive than DDR2. Mostly because of supply and demand I think.

Thanks everyone for you input i will buy more ram and also look into these solid state drives they sound expensive but worth looking into :)

More RAM is nice to have - but an SSD will make a really BIG difference. Make sure you buy one that supports Trim (which is supported in Win7). An OCZ Vertex or the Intel X25 come to mind. Trim guarantees that the write speed does not degrade over time. Here you find what Trim does: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM_(SSD_command)