i just needed a little advice on puchasing a new pc for our home
we currently have a
dell dimension DIM 2400
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4CPU 2.636GHz
2.66GHz, 256MB of ram w/ XP home edition version 2002 SP2
i know that i am out of memory , my computer is extremly slow
i have to constantly do scans and defrags to keep it moving and i am getting very fustrated
i am not sure if i would benefit from adding memory to this current PC or just buying a new one with updated programs and more memory
our computer is used for kids school help,internet surfing mainly, and i work with family photos in which i was told that by storing by photos on USB Flash drives would help free up my computer and may not bog it down as much
so just looking for opinions here and if i was to buy a new PC, what is a recommended amount of memory and hard drive to keep from this happening again, if i buy i never want to go through this slow pc stuff again because of lack of memory
so i can go from 256mb of ram to 2 gb on my computer
can i do this myself or should i have someone else
is it difficult
i was told that i was just a matter of adding the chips in and
if i got 2 1gb chips then i assume that the 256mb chip would be removed and no longer used
will i loose anything that is on my computer?
so i can go from 256mb of ram to 2 gb on my computer
-->YES
can i do this myself or should i have someone else
-->You can do it yourself
is it difficult
-->On a Dell it should be realtively easy
i was told that i was just a matter of adding the chips in and
if i got 2 1gb chips then i assume that the 256mb chip would be removed and no longer used
-->Yes, you would remove the 1 x 256 or 2 x 128 and replace them with the 2 x 1GB
will i loose anything that is on my computer?
-->No
