Vista - Waheyyyyy!

Originally Posted by HooliganDan

I was running two 8800GTX Ultra's in SLI mode

*slobber* *salivate*

Have you got Crysis? That is the benchmark game nowadays. I am moderately happy running it in high on windows XP, but I would give my left ball to play it in Vista with directX 10 on some GTX's on Very High. It looks like photorealism practically! (I found a crack to enable very high in XP, but it was very jerky and not proper very high anyway without DX10).

My first comp is still running lol. Not very well recently mind, athlon 2800+ with a 6800GS (I built it with a 9800pro origionally).

Anyway. Yes older graphics cards et outdated VERY fast. Those older cards that were posted were DX9 and only sm2 compatible, we are upto DX 10.1 and sm 4.1 now so they simply cant run some of the bits that the games now use.

HP Memory Upgrade Guide

One or two of these should do the job for the memory

As for graphics cards ... I really am out of my depth on this one ... I ain't upgraded a graphics gard for years, and the only "low profile" one I could find on eBuyer cost £57.

Not sure that helps ya or not.
Oh and see my first post - there's a link in it about the power supplies (and there's links in that link to sites that supply slimline PSU's - but by sounds of it, one or two may not be a simple replace like-for-like option :/

Pete

PC Dudes - Will these be ok to boost RAM, i know i wont be able to use both...

Linky! or these Linky!

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by plowsie

PC Dudes - Will these be ok to boost RAM, i know i wont be able to use both...

Linky!

spec you linked to says you have two spare DIMM 240 pin slots. I think you can use both!

Actually, spec says "expansion slots (free)", and what they do is list first how many slots there are in TOTAL, and then put how many of those are free (in brackets).

Bit worrying though cos it states "2 memory - DIMM 240-pin" - but doesn't mention about one being free, which would mean that your system has both slots filled, each with a 512MB memory module.

Open the case up Stu and check ...
Either way, ignore your first link - whatever the configuration 2 x 512MB modules won't help at all.
Right, if you have ONE memory slot blank then you have a single 1GB memory module in the other memory slot, in which case, you need ONE x 1GB module (EDIT: to add to the already existing 1GB module)
If both slots are full, then you have 2 x 512MB memory modules and you will need to order the ones from the second link (2 x 1GB memory modules). (EDIT: to directly replace the 512MB modules).

PC's eh?! expensive hobbies ain't they

Double post

Originally Posted by Luckypants

spec you linked to says you have two spare DIMM 240 pin slots. I think you can use both!

He can use both, but they are only 512 sticks. So you wont gain anything. These should do you. 2x1GB sticks of RAM. Youll have to remove the 1GB you already use and just put it to one side and just insert both of these, that probably a good thing as you know they are compatable with eachother. Pretty cheap and have a good writup.

Guys this mainboard only has 2 DIMM slots on it. Spec says he already has 1GB.
Soooooo ... it either has both slots filled with 512MB sticks, or 1 slot filled with a 1GB stick. So technically speaking whilst he could use another 2 x 512MB sticks ... I don't see the point, unless that memory shifts electrons faster than an anorexic shifts her dinner

[Luckypants]

Yeah got that now. I thought the spec said he two free DIMM slots, not just two DIMM slots. nice link earlier pedro the HP site about memory upgrade.