Hi Guys
I have a dimension 8300 and it runs so slow even with fast broadband and is just slow to start up and load these days - expected because it's very old now! I want to speed it up. I only have 2 free ports (I have some sort of ports on the other two - think one is firewire which I never ended up using!) - currently running 2x256 Memory and I am thinking of replacing them with x2 1GB Memory (DDR-400 UDIMM 2RX8 Non-ECC) .
My question is - is it worth it? Will buying the 2GB memory modulespeed up my PC? Or is it the processor rather than memory that needs replacing (in which case is it better to just buy a new PC as I am very unlikely to be able to rebuild my computer)?
The product site has 2 warnings that I don't fully understand :
1) that even if you add 4.0GB it reports lower - so what worth is adding 2.0 GB? What is the real equivalent for 2.0GB? (what do current PCs use as memory/processing speed?)
2) memory offered may differ in speed from original system memory: does that mean faster OR slower, or just slower?
I need to know whether it's worth investing £90 on two of these memory modules or better to just buy a new PC!!
My processor is a February 86 Intel Pentium 4 Processor 3.0GHz. And it has a 120GB 1st SATA Hard Drive (7200rpm) with 8MB Data Burst Cache.
Thanks for any help you can give...
From_Earth_