ram upgrade

Hi, My brother would like to upgrade his pc.His current config is core i3 3.3 GHZ with 2gb ram and win 7.Would win 8 x64, 4 gigs of RAM with a GT 640 ddr5 graphics and Corsair 450 watts SMPS be a decent upgrade for adobe PS ,movie viewing and occasional gaming(Max Payne..);Please suggest.

Hi, I find myself in front of a very hard problem... random BSOD. I've had it for a long time now (changing HDD or RAM did not help). Specs: win7 x64 home premium sp1 avg free edition 2014.0.4259 ZoneAlarm Free Firewall version: 11.0.780.000 The funny thing is that I get the BSOD when doing...

First time post, new member. Thanks in advance for any assistance. 2 year old Windows 7 Home premium, 64bit. Sony VAIO, VPCEH12FX. Never had any issues with this computer and out of the blue it began BSODs and freezes. When left to Idle experiences random BAD_HEADER_POOL BSODs and screen...

I have two PCs: (1) An old Compaq tower running a dual-core AMD processor at ~2.2GHz. 1GB RAM (I had to remove a 1GB stick that went bad) Running Windows Vista (2) A Gateway laptop with an Intel i3 at 2.4GHz 4GB RAM Running Windows 7 They both have crappy graphics cards and have a ton of...

I have a Windows 7 Home Premium , 64-bit OS, Acer Aspire 5253, 3GB Ram,AMDC-50 Processor, 1 GHz, with Internet cable modem, with 10mb download speed. My GF with a similar Notebook PC uses the building's Wi-fi network, via my router and the speed is 5X faster than mine. Whether I'm using a...

Awhile back I had posted a thread about my graphic issues with my hp envy 14. The problem I was encountering had to do with drops in my framerate after 10 or 20 minutes playing games. Now, up and to this point I never had any problems running games, matter of fact most games ran extremely well...

Hi, I have a trouble with my Office Word 2010. I can not look up new words in Word 2010. In the past, I often Ctrl+Right Click to get new words' meaning at once, but when I installed the Window 7 (64bit) because my RAM was upgraded to 4GB, I can not do as I used to. When I Ctrl+Right click, it...

Is system capable enough to run windows 7 Home Premium ? My system Specs are - CPU - Intel E5200 Motherboard - DG31PR Ram - 2GB I mainly use my desktop for web browsing and playing media files thats all. Will my system become slow after installing W7? Any other tips,advice on upgrading...

Hey Forum! Okay so I recently bought a Sony Vaio E series but im experiencing lots of BSOD's and ive had 4 different kinds so far. They appear to be completely random and even occur during the laptop's sleep! Some possibilities perhaps? In the store from which i bought it I upgraded the ram...

Hello again, Please help me to solve my BSOD. I have it for a few months. I upgraded from Win XP to Win7, changed the antivirus/firewall system to Comodo, updated drivers and did other things. After changing 1 module of RAM 512 MB, some crashes disappeared, only bsod at boot time remained. I...

Hello, Please help me to solve my BSOD. I have it for a few months. I upgraded from Win XP to 7, changed the antivirus/firewall system to Comodo, updated drivers and did other things. After changing 1 module of RAM 512 MB, some crashes disappeared, only bsod at boot time remained. I deleted...

Hello, I installed windows 7 a few days ago, and deleted windows xp. When I open the task manager it says that my physical memory is 30%, when I just opened the computer and didn't open any program. Also, When I open Internet Explorer, I have a message from the antivirus that the internet is...

Hello everyone!I purchased a new laptop over Christmas, and it's an Acer Aspire 7560 with DDR3 PC3-10600, DDR3 PC3-8500 RAM, 640 GB HDD, an AMD Radeon HD 6620G graphics card with 512MB of graphics system memory, and an AMD quad core A8-3500M processor. Since the day I bought it, brand new, I...

I have recently upgraded my Aces Aspires RAM and then realized that the additional RAM will only work in Win7 64-Bit This I went out and bought Win7 64Bit and installed it, before the install my PC was working just fine, but after the install I have run into a whole host of issues. 1. My LAN...

Hello guys ! I seek all the information I searched over the Internet and no solution. When I'm still using Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit, the game was fine and no issue, just a crappy frame-per-second numbers which is why I upgraded my RAM to 4GB and fresh new installation of Windows 7...

I had 19 crashes in the past 4 month. A computer is 13 month old. The first BSODs happened on 27/12/2011. The exact statistics: 0x1A MEMORY_MANAGEMENT - happened 10 times (the 5 most recent crashes were 0x1A) 0x24 NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM - 4 times (the most recent happened 3 weeks ago) 0xE4...

I own a dell demension 4600 also i have upgraded the ram to 4 gigs, the cpu to 3.02, a nvidia geForce 6200 agp graphics card, i know i will be needing a sound card, what would you recommend. What i am looking to do is install windows 7 home premium. I seem to have all of the necessary...

Hi Guys. I haven't had a Windows XP question in a lot of years. My friend Paul asked my to come over and upgrade his Dell computer to 2 Gigs of ram. I did that and it booted and worked fine, but I noticed that only half of his hard drive was available. I said where is the rest of your hard...

My desktop computer has been progressively slowing to a crawl. I just upgraded my RAM to 6 GB and I haven't noticed much improvement (probably a waste of money all things considered). I have repaired the MBR, which I have had luck with in the past. I ran a disk check, seemingly fine. Used...

Hi, I upgraded my computer from Windows 32bit to Windows 64 bit. I also installed 8GB additional RAM (a total of 12GB). Since then if the computer is idle for a bit then I get a BSOD with the following errors, A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your...