Tell me how to upgrade my toaster

[Baler]

Make sure you check your mobo to see if it can accept another stick of ram.
I highly encourage you to do some research before buying to make sure you'll be able to use it and at its fullest capabilities.

[CmaN]

With the 2GB, I bet in those particular zones with higher asset counts, you are paging. My EQ currently is showing over half a gig of memory. So in your situation, it is extremely likely you are running out of memory and having to use the page file. You can run EQ in those zones you mentioned, and bring up your task manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del -> Start Task Manager) and click the performance tab.

Windows 7 can be alright with 2gb, but 4gb should be a minimal when running about anything, including a browser. I have a bunch of tabs open right now and my browser alone is using .3 gigs of memory, most of the time its much more then that, upwards to 600 megs.

You should certainly find compatible memory for your system and add at least 2 GB of memory. Check out your system documentation to find out the maximum and what type you need. There is a far out option of something like readyboost with a flash drive or something in the interim, but you will need to get that ram upgrade.

[Videri]

Originally Posted by Daywolf [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Coo. memory shouldn't be a big prob unless you have tons of other programs running.

Actually...I always run Teamspeak when playing, as well as GINA for audio triggers, and it kind of sucks not having a browser window open to research on the wiki, browse these forums, or check my DKP (religiously).

I'm not against spending some money. It makes sense to if it's going to improve my Norrathian experience.

[Videri]

Originally Posted by Baler [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Make sure you check your mobo to see if it can accept another stick of ram.
I highly encourage you to do some research before buying to make sure you'll be able to use it and at its fullest capabilities.

It can't. All 4 slots are full of puny half-gig ram twigs. I'll get some help figuring out what kind of ram to use and I'll go to 4GB or more.

[CmaN]

You can post your board make and model and someone here or myself can help you out.

[Daywolf]

Originally Posted by Videri [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It can't. All 4 slots are full of puny half-gig ram twigs. I'll get some help figuring out what kind of ram to use and I'll go to 4GB or more.

Meh yeah pull 'em when you can, if you decide to upgrade. You might be able to leave a pair in there though, but not always a good idea if the new ram is a different brand. If you want to play newer games I'd go 8gb in total. 4gb is good though. Best to get the right type of ram of course.

[Thulack]

Originally Posted by Videri [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Innnteresting. Really, a laptop?? Wouldn't a desktop in a similar price range be preferable?

i got this for 200 bucks during christmas and it came with a 120gb SSD instead of the 500gb SATA drive(was from Woot.com not Ebay). http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI...887&rmvSB=true

Only complaint is the display isnt the greatest but for 200 bucks the thing is built like a tank(its military grade. you can drop this thing and it would hold up) and it can play even some modern games semi well. My son used it to play plants vs zombies garden warfare while on vacation and it easily handled EQ.i hooked it up to a monitor while playing as the display is rather small. Not saying you couldnt spent 100 dollars more and get something around that with a decent display but for me this was a very good investment for me for 200 dollars. Another 2gb of ram(if PC allows should help) but its also going towards something that sooner later is going to bite the dust.

[Thulack]

Originally Posted by Daywolf [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Meh yeah pull 'em when you can, if you decide to upgrade. You might be able to leave a pair in there though, but not always a good idea if the new ram is a different brand. If you want to play newer games I'd go 8gb in total. 4gb is good though. Best to get the right type of ram of course.

Honestly if he is running a single processor CPU thats gotta be a old ass mobo that might not even support more then 4gb of ram. Plus if he doesnt have 64 bit windows he would have to upgrade that as well.

[Daywolf]

Originally Posted by Thulack [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Honestly if he is running a single processor CPU thats gotta be a old ass mobo that might not even support more then 4gb of ram. Plus if he doesnt have 64 bit windows he would have to upgrade that as well.

It's a 2 core chip. Now Vista, they did that, shipped systems witg 32bit OS on multi-core chips, so fail that was. But most were shipped right by the time win7 came around, though still some with poor memory specs. But in any case, the book that came with the system will say what the 'right type of ram' is for that system. Hah 2gb on 4 slots sounds like an HP.

Oh and if were the freak chance it's 32bit win7, just get at least the free win10 upgrade.

[Videri]

Update: turns out the power unit and motherboard are burned out. Doc says it'll cost $280 to have him replace them. I spent $300 on this used toaster about 2 years ago.

Looks like I'm in the market for a new one. Probably max $500. I'll look for something with a 100+GB SSD and 8 GB of ram. I'd appreciate any suggestions of other criteria to look for, places to look, or particular models.