Pc1 fast; pc2 slow. Install ibto pc2 higher ram & faster processer?

for PC2 we need to know your exact motherboard and memory details to answer. Some of the slowness is hardware for sure but PC2 may have other things slowing it down too, because it should not be freezing.

Click on motherboard and RAM within speccy and post a screenshot of each, like below, is your best bet. Note that I have some details expanded and some not - don't need timing tables expanded for instance

Speccy - Advanced System Information Tool - Windows 7 Help Forums

If you are not keen on doing a screenshot, the motherboard model, total memory slots, used memory slots, and memory SPD part number is all that's really needed.

The systems appear different in several ways, I was hoping that would not be the case. The newer one has different memory and a different bios. If the faster machine had the same bios and memory, it would have been easy to just buy new memory and a cpu so that the slow system would exactly match the fast system, but no dice. And since the motherboard is specific to gateway, I'm not sure if it will support a faster cpu. So the question becomes how do you at least upgrade memory. Open your slow system and look to see if you have just one DIMM installed, which means you have one empty memory slot. Based on the report, that appears to be the case. If so, remove the DIMM and take a close up pic of its label. It will look similar to the below pic. Then do a search on ebay like this:

HU524303EP0200 | eBay

and find a 2GB dimm whose label matches yours. Buy it, then install it in your empty dimm slot and you should be good to go. If buying stuff on ebay feels to "out there" for you, go to the crucial website where they have a tool which will scan your system and tell you what to buy. Good luck.

Crucial System Scanner | Crucial.com

Actually your pic shows your empty PCI slot. Attached is a pic of your SX2855 motherboard, showing the two memory slots.

I saw on crucial that your motherboard supports up to 8GB of memory, using two 4GB Dimms. About $65. That is your best bet if you want the best performance. So in that case you would buy two new 4GB dimms and throw away your existing 2GB dimm. But if you wanted to go the cheaper route and re-use your existing dimm and only go to 4GB (2x2GB) total, then you can remove the existing dimm, take a pic of its label, and buy another one just like it. Here is a link to a video as to how to install a dimm.

How to install RAM Memory in your Computer - YouTube

Also in the attached pic you can see the specific motherboard model of H61H2-AD. Check on your machine to see if that is also your model. If so, the pentium G630 cpu does run on that board. Its almost as fast as the cpu on your other machine.

JamesE said:

could I get the two 4G sticks for PC2 and use its original 2G stick on PC1?

probably so. Give it a try right now if you want to know for sure.