upgrading my dell

massy086

hi bit of a noob here so any help would be great i have a dell gx260 (i know a bit old)but its all i can afford at the mo saving 4 a house i was thinking of putting 2gigs of ram into it to speed it up but not sure wat sort i know its ddr pc2100 but have i any better solutions wen it come,s to ram and is ther any other things i could do to it that are,nt too hard or dear thanks

jhud

http://www.orcalogic.co.uk/asp/prodtype.asp?prodtype=24383&ft=m&st=3

free shipping aswell got some a long time back for my dell laptop and its still going good.

http://crucial.com/eu/store/listparts.aspx?model=OptiPlex%20GX260%20Series

Dont know what shipping is.

Or you could try searching for the memory on http://www.dabs.ie or komplett

jhud

http://www.adverts.ie/showproduct.php?product=38654&cat=8

Someone in Dublin selling this on adverts second hand dont know about compatibility.

massy086

thanks guys 4 all ur help wat about a bios upgrade would that help and were would i find it and can anyone tell me will this ram work in my pchttp://www.dabs.ie/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=3PYD&SearchType=1&SearchTerms=pc3200&PageMode=3&SearchKey=All&SearchMode=All&NavigationKey=0

jhud

Yes that looks like it would do the job

jhud

As for the bios and any other driver you should go to the dell website and put in your service tag on the drivers and software in the support section. I recommend you update all drivers on the computer

massy086

thanks a lot ill buy the ram and try dell ill let u know how i get on and thanks again iv also got a 2.8mhz cyu to put in it now so it should be that bit better hopefully do u think ill need to change the heatsink im running a 1.8mhz at mo

jhud

You wont be able to change the heatsink as the motherboard is a dell motherboard and has clips in the way so you are better of sticking with the fan and heatsink that are in it already. I tried changing one on a dell desktop before and it would not fit in with all the crap they put in the machines.

massy086

thanks 4 that anything else u think i can do lol

massy086

well got the ram today works great and i got a bigger cpu also works great its flying along i was thinking of going to vista 4 a while but am being told i need to upgrade my video card so i can get aero to work can anyone tell me one that will work with my dell gx250 desktop not tower so i can try find one on adverts cheap thanks