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Mar 22^nd, 2010 at 1:50pm

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Ok, I'm trying to decide about a small pc upgrade.

My specs...
Dell GX 620 (I know it's a business pc)
2.5 GB RAM @ 800mhz
80GB HD @ 7200 rpm (and I know that is tiny)
Vista Business
ATI Radeon HD 3650 with 1GB memory
and Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.80 ghz

I was wondering how much of a difference an upgrade from 2.5 GB to 4GB would make. I can do that for about $30. I don't want to spend too much on anything because I'm fixin to build a computer, but that will be a little while from now.
Here is how well it plays FSX http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFuCkrxIyi4 and it's not so jumpy with FRAPS off.
So, should I upgrade, or should I wait and build one? (I already have several parts, Case, PSU, Video Card, DVD Drive. Just have to buy Motherboard, more RAM, CPU, HDD, and OS) btw, the RAM I have and the RAM I would be getting will fit in the Motherboard I have picked. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=53252...

ASUS M4A89GTD, 16GB 1333MHz DDR3 RAM, 160GB 10,000 RPM HDD + 1TB 7200 RPM HDD, AMD Phenom II x4 965BE 3.4 GHz OC @ 3.8 GHz, 1GB EVGA GeForce GDDR5 GPU

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Reply #1 - Mar 22^nd, 2010 at 9:38pm

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My queston is how do you have 2 1/2 gigs of ram, ram should always be symmetrical. Anyways, yeah that would make a substantial difference, but remember, it's not going to make much if your going to crank the graphics/effects up too.

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Reply #2 - Mar 22^nd, 2010 at 11:05pm

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My computer has 4 slots, and it came with two 256mb sticks. I added two 1GB sticks. Thanks for the reply.

ASUS M4A89GTD, 16GB 1333MHz DDR3 RAM, 160GB 10,000 RPM HDD + 1TB 7200 RPM HDD, AMD Phenom II x4 965BE 3.4 GHz OC @ 3.8 GHz, 1GB EVGA GeForce GDDR5 GPU

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Reply #3 - Mar 23^rd, 2010 at 12:14am

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Not a problem,
How much are you willing to spend?

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Reply #4 - Mar 23^rd, 2010 at 1:36am

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Well, I was hoping not to spend too much until I upgrade the whole thing, plus, 4GB is max on this motherboard.

ASUS M4A89GTD, 16GB 1333MHz DDR3 RAM, 160GB 10,000 RPM HDD + 1TB 7200 RPM HDD, AMD Phenom II x4 965BE 3.4 GHz OC @ 3.8 GHz, 1GB EVGA GeForce GDDR5 GPU

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Reply #5 - Mar 24^th, 2010 at 12:36am

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It's hard to decide which component you should upgrade. It seems like a relatively balanced PC, and it's also very old. Adding some more RAM is not likely to improve performance much, and other components are expensive and would probably only improve performance marginally. I think you should just get an entirely new PC...

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Reply #6 - Mar 24^th, 2010 at 8:12am

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Thanks for the advice! I almost have enough for the motherboard I'm looking at, so then I'll only need the HDD, OS, and RAM.

ASUS M4A89GTD, 16GB 1333MHz DDR3 RAM, 160GB 10,000 RPM HDD + 1TB 7200 RPM HDD, AMD Phenom II x4 965BE 3.4 GHz OC @ 3.8 GHz, 1GB EVGA GeForce GDDR5 GPU

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