PC Help - Page 2

Null · 12-09-2002, 10:47 PM

look in the mirror or something?

Happydude · 12-09-2002, 11:13 PM

........no mirrors in my room...but i did look at my sister...

Shadow_Link · 12-10-2002, 04:29 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by GameMaster
Really? That's really strange. It was just one of the most highly praised games when it came out 2 years ago and it still stands as one of the greatest PC games ever. How could you have not heard of it?

It's also one of the most overrated games ever.

But don't get me wrong, it's a good game.

Professor S · 12-10-2002, 04:51 PM

I've played the game before and I loved it, but its definitely not for everyone. True, it does get repetitive at times and there are some frustrating aspects, but I think the pure uniqueness of the title won me over. The AI is the best I've ever played as you really feel like you are raising your Avatar and that he can think on his own.

Thsi and Warcraft will be the 2 first games I'll play on my PC.

Just in case you were wondering, my old PC ran with a 8 MB graphics card... DOH!!!

Professor S · 12-11-2002, 10:47 AM

Update for anyone who cares. I just ordered 2 more sticks of 128 PC 1066 40ns for my Dimension bumping it all the way up to 512. Here's a mind numbingly fast PC experience

Null · 12-11-2002, 01:31 PM

you made sure you have enough ram slots for 2 more sticks first right?

hehe

but yea, the amount of ram i'd recomment is 512 at least, tis a good amount.

i'm hoping to be up to 1024 after christmas

Professor S · 12-11-2002, 01:47 PM

But of course. The guy actually caught me at 4allmemory.com. (HIGHLY recommended, cheap and great Customer Service)

I was going to order a 256 stick and he told me the Dimension 8250's only support individual sticks of 126, so I ordered 2 of them. He said a lot of people are upgrading the model PC that I have. I'm not surprised as its MUCH cheaper to do it yourself.

BTW, I have enough slots to upgrade to 2 Gigs if I want to

Null · 12-11-2002, 03:10 PM

i think you mean your motherboard can support 2 gigs.

you prolly have 3 to 4 actual slots.

im pretty sure you have to buy a tray kinda thing that plugs into one of the slots that creates a bunch more slots to have a ton of sticks in.

never seen a motherboard with more then 4 actual slots on it. (then again i never went out looking.)

BTW, mine can go up to 3 gigs. But we not in competition.

(sorry, hehe)

-EDIT- Actually i just thought about that.... 4 slots, with a 512 stick in each is 2 gigs. so yea, guess you can get in 2 gigs without expasion slots. sorry, hehe.

mine can goto 3 gigs, but only has 3 slots, so eh *shrugs*

Professor S · 12-11-2002, 04:02 PM

I can't put 512 sticks in though, only 128s, and the guy said I could upgrade to 2 gigs on my current PC.

2 Gigs though? We probably won't hit the need for that for YEARS.

Question: Do you have RD or DDR RAM?

Null · 12-11-2002, 04:15 PM

mines DDR. i toyed with the idea back and forth whether to get RD, and finally it just came down to price, and DDR isnt too far behind RD in performance.

only 128's? that seems odd to say the least.

Does RD ram come higher then 128 right now? (if 128 is the higest that makes more sence)

as for 128 then. you'd need 16 ram slots to get to 2 gigs. i SERIOUSLY doubt you have 16 ram slots.

now if you have one of the expansion things, its possible. but i dont even think they could fit 16 on a board, unless its an odd shaped board that lies flat, and has a vertical wall on it.

have you ever looked inside it yet? You know what kinda motherboard it has?

or what is this? Dell Deminsion? if so what number 8 something? or just give me some names so i can look up the motherboard and see what all it has.

just curious of what it looks like.

Professor S · 12-11-2002, 04:18 PM

I have a Dimension 8250

Null · 12-11-2002, 04:26 PM

im not sure why it would only take 128's

is this Duel channel RD ram? that might explain the pairs thing you mentioned.

dunno if i can find your exact mobo. theres a number on the back of your pc that lets you find out all the info on everything your personally PC came with by entering it in.

i dunno. i cannot see it having that many slots onboard.
obviously you'll know exactly how many it has when you open it up to put the new ones in. hehe
I suppose it doesnt really matter tho. IMO, 2 gigs is overkill for a home pc, let alone 3, i did not buy this mobo for the amount of ram it could handle. i can see maybe a server having that much. But once i get 1GB of ram. i dont really see me going over that amount.

you putting them in or someone else doing it for you?

Professor S · 12-11-2002, 05:46 PM

Yes it is dual channel RD RAM. How is that different from regular RD RAM. From what I gather it both loads and preloads info at the same time.

Null · 12-11-2002, 05:57 PM

im not sure exactly what it does. just know it speeds things up a bit, and it uses them in pairs....... downside being you must buy them 2 at a time.

dell website shows you can buy higher ram for a dim8250, maybe the guy just really recomended the 128? cuz like the 512 was over $400

manasecret · 12-11-2002, 09:32 PM

It's because what he has in there now is a pair of 128's, equaling 256 MB. If he wants to upgrade to 512 MB, he can't just buy a stick of 256MB because like you've been saying they have to be in pairs.

So to get 512MB with what he already has, he must buy two sticks of 128MB. Otherwise he would have to buy two 256MB sticks and throw away the two sticks of 128MB that he already has.

He could get up to 2GB of RAM if he got rid of the four sticks of 128's and bought four sticks of 512MB.

I think you almost knew that, just didn't put it together right or something.

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