Ram?

[joelkat]

I think I have 2GB of DDR2 ram. Is it possible to get 1 or 2 more GB of it installed and will it help with gaming? I game a lot and I think this would help and what else would 1 more GB of DDR2 ram help with?

 

[Hopalong X]

You only have two slots for RAM. Picture of mother board and moboard specs.
Motherboard Specifications, M2N68-LA (Narra5) Compaq Presario CQ5500Y Desktop PC - HP Customer Care (United States - English)

The good news is it came with 2x1GB Ram sticks and you can replace with 2x2GB Ram sticks. Look at Memory and upgrade at link below.
Has all specs on this page.
Compaq Presario CQ5500Y Desktop PC Product Specifications Compaq Presario CQ5500Y Desktop PC - HP Customer Care (United States - English)

• • Dual channel memory architecture
  • Two DDR2 DIMM (240-pin) sockets
  • Supported DIMM types:
    • PC2-5300 (667 MHz)
    • PC2-6400 (800 MHz)
  • Non-ECC memory only, unbuffered
  • Supports 2GB DDR2 DIMMs
  • Supports up to 4 GB* on 32 bit PCs

  *32-bit operating systems cannot address a full 4.0 GB of memory.

 

[Solarstarshines]

well more ram will defenitly help but we need to know a little more specs but ill do my best to help you

#1 st you should download speccy it will give you all the informantion you need on your system
speccy downloads - Free software downloads and software reviews - CNET

also more ram will help with gaming of course
also if you do upgrade get vendor recommended and if i were you swap it all out for the same exact all around and if you can get a better cpu and do it yourself look into that too or buy a little bit of a better video card all these will help you perform

 

[joelkat]

how much would it cost from here at compusa.com?

 

[Hopalong X]

Solarstar specs are at my posted links.


Joelkat filling in your specs would be useful for future use on the forum. Go to the links I provided and add anything you have changed or added your self.

Mike

 

[joelkat]

Operating System
MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
CPU
AMD Sempron 140 29 °C
Sargas 45nm Technology
RAM
2.0GB Single-Channel DDR2 @ 401MHz (6-6-6-18)
Motherboard
PEGATRON CORPORATION NARRA5 (Socket AM2 )
Graphics
Compaq S1922 @ 1366x768
ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 Series (XFX Pine Group) 61 °C
Hard Drives
488GB SAMSUNG SAMSUNG HD502HJ SCSI Disk Device (RAID)
Optical Drives
hp DVD-RAM GH40L SCSI CdRom Device
Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio

 

[Hopalong X]

This one. 2x2GB. Good brand of basic RAM which is what you want for stock PC.

http://www.compusa.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3601937&CatId=2263

Corsair 4096MB PC5400 DDR2 Memory

Memory Category: Desktop

Memory Type: DDR2

Memory Speed: PC5400

Memory Speed MHz: 667MHz

Memory Size: 2 x 2048MB

Total Memory Size: 4GB

Memory Modules: 2

Memory Channels: Dual

Memory Socket: DIMM

Memory CAS Latency: 5-5-5-15

Pins: 240

 

[Solarstarshines]

this is the ram i use im a gamer as well but quality of ram does matter

even though you would like to be on a budget CompUSA.com | PV224G6400LLKB | Patriot Viper II 4GB PC6400 800MHz DDR2 RAM

 

[joelkat]

thanks both very much for you patience and help with this, Joel

 

[joelkat]

and are the system spec updates helpful?

 

[Solarstarshines]

very helpfull Honestly though if you want to keep your build alive a while longer i would look into those three upgrades you can use a phenom quadcore in there and the type of ram i suggest and a discreet 5670 that doesnt need a power suply man you would be flying

 

[joelkat]

Ok and one last thing I need a directx 10.1 download thats what my GFX card says to get D:

 

[Solarstarshines]

yup dx 10

 

[joelkat]

can you get me a link I searched for like 20 minutes and got nothing

 

[Hopalong X]

Type dxdiag in the Start search bar. It has a blue circle with a yellow X in the circle. Click it. The window that opens will tell you what version you have of DX it is probably DX10 already.

I have DX11. Circled below.

 

[joelkat]

Ok it worked thank you

 

[Solarstarshines]

Microsoft DirectX 10 Final – DirectX 10.1