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I've just bought a bargain Dell Desktop PC.
It comes with 2 memory slots.
Currently it has a Dell (Samsung) 4GB ram stick (PC3 1600Mhz) in one of the slots (other slot empty).
I'd like to upgrade.
I'm not quite sure about matching in pairs.
Shall I
1) Buy another 4GB matching from Dell at £41 (seems expensive) and run it with the existing one.
2) Buy a decent matched pair of new 4GB sticks to replace the current one (for £37)
3) Buy a decent 8GB single stick to replace current one (allowing me to easily upgrade later by adding another) (£39)
4) Buy a decent 8GB single stick to go with the current one (which would equal 12GB)(£39)
Cheers
Alex
4, whether matched pairs work better or not, an extra 4GB is what it is.
is it a 64 bit system? if not wont use more then 4 anyway
5) Leave it with 4GB as it is, cos it's plenty? 🙂
What's the PC doing?
vertical climber - Memberis it a 64 bit system? if not wont use more then 4 anyway
Yes, 64bit W8 Pro (probably install ClassicShell as soon as I start it up 🙂
I'm also going to go for an SSD for the boot drive (currently trying to work out whether 128GB is enough, but I doubt it).
woody2000 - Member5) Leave it with 4GB as it is, cos it's plenty?
What's the PC doing?
Adobe Creative Cloud. I mainly live in Photoshop and Illustrator.
It'll be doing some video work at some point too.
128GB will be enough, assuming you have a second disk for data storage?
Photos and videos soon eat up your space.
[url= http://www.crucial.com/uk/systemscanner/ ]Go Here (Crucial Memory Scanner)[/url] and it will tell you what you have and what can put into your system.
xiphon - Member128GB will be enough, assuming you have a second disk for data storage?
Photos and videos soon eat up your space.
Yes, 2TB in the computer and 2TB in a NAS.
My worry is that my current computer shows 108MB used for C:
I know I can reduce a bit of that by moving a couple of storage places out - My localhost is in there with about 10 Wordpress installs - presumably I can move my WAMP install.
There's also a few other bits and bobs (6GB of email) which I can move for example, but I'll bet it would be at 90MB once finished. Difficult to know what this will look like in 3 years time (my usual upgrade cycle).
Edit, I also read that SSDs work more efficiently with plenty of room on them.
Provided the main OS is on the SSD, and "data" is on a mechanical drive, you'll be fine.
Icon caches/meta data search indices are kept on C:
What about the RAM though 🙂
RAM is RAM,
Just buy another 4GB stick the right size and speed. No need to throw away a perfectly good 4GB DIMM to buy a "matched pair"
Photoshop loves RAM, so 6GB would probably be sufficient, perhaps 8GB - no more though
Don't buy from Dell though - too expensive - use MrMemory.co.uk