Speed Up Your PC with a Memory Upgrade
I mentioned the other day a 5 year old PC with a Pentium 4 1.7 and 128 MB RAM that was slow as molasses in January. An 512MB memory module was less than $50 and gave that PC new life.
Since I’m doing so many of those right now, I went ahead and added a couple pages to my website on memory upgrades and where to get the correct (and best) product at a great price.
Reasons I’m doing all of this?
- Vista isn’t exactly taking off, for a variety of reasons. Lack of working drives being one reason.
- Since the new PC’s, especially the cheapo’s everyone seems to want, aren’t really much faster; and if you don’t fall for the Vista Aero call, why spend the money on a new PC?
- Memory upgrades are cheap. And they work. So many PC’s were put out with inadequate RAM, and they respond so well to a memory upgrade.
And if memory alone won’t do it, sometimes it benefits you greatly to reload Windows XP. Yes, it’s a pain. Yes, Please make MULTIPLE backups first. But you can end up feeling like you have a new PC.
Note: on many of these units I am finding PC2100 memory. That’s kind of hard to find, so I’m buying PC2700 memory as a perfectly compatible replacement. And since most of them are only 128MB sticks, I’m just taking them out rather than mixing speeds of RAM. Like I said, the new PC2700 is just too cheap to worry about salvaging the old PC2100. But hey, maybe you can sell it to a friend for $10.
The new pages:
Memory Upgrades
The Best Memory Vendor
