Megan — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 22:19:06 +0000

Well, right now it's either that or nothing.

mairving — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 22:05:25 +0000

Do not buy it on Ebay. RAM is a bit persnickety. Cheap RAM is the frequent cause of system problems. I nearly always use Crucial, Mushkin or Corsair. I haven't had a problem with any except a stick of Crucial which was RMA'd. There are some other good brands but those are the ones that I have used.

Greg K — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 21:01:30 +0000

mairving wrote: Oh come on, Megan, go ahead and pick up one of these Alienware laptops. Need to go and wipe the drool off my chin.

Sweet! A laptop with dual hard drives and optical drives!!! I priced one out at 4600. (chose the faster sinlge 100g 7200 rpm drive and only one dvd burner and no extra add-ons (sounds cards, bluetooth, etc).

-Greg

demonhale — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 15:48:43 +0000

Now that kinda solves all your problems...

Anyways just dont throw the old PC right away make it a music server, I have three of my old PC's running as Music servers, installed one for my brother the other to my Room and the last one in the living room... (Just a thought)

When you borrow your BF's PC install a cheeky theme which he can never replace and ramble the icons and customize it really far-off, so that instead for asking it back hell give it to you instead.... he he he (sheepish smile)

Megan — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 15:41:12 +0000

I was talking to my boyfriend about this last night. He knows more about this than I do (but less than you guys!) We were talking about completely rebuilding my machine with new components but that started to get expensive. No point in putting that much money into this machine. I won't be able to take it with me if I end up moving over there!

What I might actually do is buy a stick of PC133 for cheap on ebay. That will tie me over until I figure out what I'm doing and what kind of a new machine I should get. The boyfriend just bought a new laptop (the guy has 3 computers already!!!) which he might let me borrow for awhile

demonhale — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 15:20:43 +0000

Yeah thats why I said read your MOBO manuals and see what upgrades you can do... To help you out quite a bit, you can change MOBO,s and get a 1Gig RAM and put back your HDD's and other external stuff back in which gives you a new PC sort of, if you set up for a new laptop, then have a little patience and maybe that cool english boyfriend of yours might give you a laptop for christmas... wish. wish.

Megan — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 01:44:34 +0000

Okay, so I'm sort of stuck then. Hmmmm...

mairving — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 01:09:10 +0000

You can't just put any RAM in their that you want. If it has PC133, then more than likely you would have to put PC133 back in it. Some motherboards have slots for both but those are very few. You wouldn't be able to put PC3200 in it.

Megan — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 23:48:41 +0000

Okay, so should I get two sticks of PC3200 then??? Maybe???

I'm totally clueless about this stuff so thanks for the help

I should probably look into new systems a bit just to see how much I'd have to spend ... might not be all that much really since I don't need a monitor or anything...

teammatt3 — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 23:36:24 +0000

Yeah Megan, PC-133 is pretty lame. If you want to know more about the hardware in your PC check out CPUID

EDIT: This message is out of context, I didn't read page 2