D33006 Motherboard Manual Programs
One of the reasons why PC sales have slumped, at least in my opinion, is the fact that many users do not see the need to upgrade their systems as often as before.Back in the days, upgrading the processor from a 486 to a Pentium, or a Pentium to a Pentium II, was a huge deal, as were upgrades to system RAM (128 Megabyte for the win), or the video card.Today, upgrades do not yield those high performance gains anymore. Sure, it is nice if you install a new video card to get even more frame rates out of games you play, or a faster processor to convert those media files faster, but all in all, the gains are not as noticeable as before unless you are updating a very old system.The mobile sector is currently were PCs were a decade ago. Innovation is fast and advancements in processing power, battery life and other technologies justify a faster upgrade cycle. This too will eventually slow down.Back to PCs.RAM is not expensive anymore, with 4 Gigabytes of RAM available for about $40 right now, 8 Gigabytes for $80, and 16 Gigabytes starting at $150.Performance will jump if you have less than 4 Gigabytes in your PC while you won't notice such a visual jump in performance if you already have 4 or 8 Gigabytes and want to upgrade them to even more RAM. It may be worth it nevertheless, for instance if you do a lot of real-time work on the PC, or work with huge files all the time. Motherboard informationIf you are like me, you do not know the model of the motherboard that has been built into your PC.
I did assemble the PC myself, but it was some time ago and my memory is not the best anymore.If you know the model, skip this step. If you do not know it, we need to find it out exactly as it will reveal to us what the motherboard supports.Some motherboards may not support more RAM than is already installed, while others may limit the maximum memory or types that you can install, which you need to know before you head out and buy too much of it.or any other system information program to display the model of the Motherboard.In my case - the screenshot above - it is a Gigabyte P55-USB3 motherboard. Finding out how much RAM your PC supportsNow that we know the motherboard model, we can use it to look up information.
What we need to know are the specs in regards to memory.To be precise, how much RAM the motherboard supports and which types of RAM it supports.You have two options for that:1. Search for the model numberThis is my preferred choice. I type the maker of the motherboard and the model of it in a search engine of choice. Slight tangent: Yes, PC sales have slumped, and I think Martin’s on target about the reasons. In many offices — probably most — you’ll see desktop PC workstations.
IT departments have (historically!) gotten more processor, memory, and durability for their money when buying PCs rather than laptops. And CPU-memory-wise, a modern PC will handle anything that 95% of users ever try.So hardware cycles can slow down, and fewer PCs are bought. But the spectrum of software cycles seems to be spreading. Apple, MS, (and Canonical, for what it’s worth) are innovating rapidly. So are Chrome and Mozilla.
But some specialty software hasn’t been moved from XP to Win 7, let alone toward the looming Win 8.2. (A hospital I visited a couple of years ago used a DOS program to capture video from an endoscope, for example. And the tellers at my credit union currently boot to XP.)Of course, Martin’s essay concerns individual users and their machines.
And he gives good pointers. For the corporate-industrial sector — where desktop PCs will likely hang on longer than anywhere else — maybe the challenge will not lie in hardware innovation but in managing the fragmentation caused by incompatible software and operating systems. Dunno, just thinkin’. (End off-topic wandering.).
“For the corporate-industrial sector — where desktop PCs will likely hang on longer than anywhere else”I work weekends at a Whole Foods Market (a large natural foods/products retailer; US, Canada and UK). At this Atlanta location nearly half the workstations are still running XP Pro. The order/inventory/networking systems are a mess.
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I come in and find PUPs, browser toolbars, spam emails leaked into my “isolated” user account by lamebrains using that workstation. IT-illiterate corporate executives are a menace to society.
(End of off-topic wandering reply.). The, “Crucial Upgrade Scanner”, is pretty good, but it can’t tell the difference between DRAM and SODIMM. I contacted Crucial about that and they too confirm their program can’t tell the difference between the two types of RAM, but they guaranty that the Crucial RAM listed (if any) will be guaranteed to work. Though judging by the listed RAM one could tell if the listed RAM was DRAM or SODIMM, but in the case of a friend’s funny computer with the strangest case/monitor enclosure I’ve ever seen, the program registered he had 4 slots, of which 3 were empty.I’ve changed RAM plenty of times on both desktops and laptops, but my friend’s computer is something else. It is a first generation, All-in-one computer before the concept of All-in-one computer were being sold regularly.
From the outside it looks like a regular mini widescreen monitor (15″) but with a large base about 9″x6″x2″ That right there houses the motherboard, cpu, HDD, card reader and PSU. From the size of the housing alone I don’t know of any motherboard (ATX, mATX,miniATX, subATX and Micro ATX) that would fit that case unless it was a laptop motherboard. So without cracking it open I always assumed it would take SODIMM’s but the Crucial Upgrade scanner only reported back how many free ports and what was in the current port including the type (PC5300) but not what Crucial product that is compatible with it.Crucial also tells me, their scanner detects the maximum RAM possible for the motherboard in question only if it lists a compatible Crucial product. In my friend’s case He has 4 slots 3 empty.
The single slot holds a 1Gb RAM chip PC5300 and he’s running Windows XP Home Basic 32b lol I guess I will find time to go over and crack that puppy open to find out what type of RAM it requires. The computer is a Hewlett Packard (HP), as for model number that I do not know. Sure Brian!!!For one- “heavy weight” graphical editing programs usually use alot of memory.But let’s say your a common user, I myself get to a point where my ram hits 4 GigaByte while running chrome with 40 or 50 tabs open. Why do i do that? As yourself- because I can, and I don’t want to close the tabs and later forgetlook where i put them;)also, If you play video games and have low ram, you’d need to close other programs for the timebeing.
If you have alot of ram though- you can leave it all runningthere are probably more uses, that’s what pops to my mind right now. It’s also important to consider what OS you’re are running.For instance a 32bit OS, like WinXP can only use up to 4Gb ram so more ram is not helpful (unless you run ram expanders or such).Even with 64bit OS, like, say Win7x64, the max ram usage depends on the version.The typical home computer comes with Win7x64 Home Premium which only supports using up to 16Gb ram. It’s sure OK to install more than 16Gb ram (assuming the motherboard supports it), but Win7x64 Home Premium will limit itself to using only 16Gb ram.To use more than 16Gb ram in Win7x64, you need Pro or Ultimate or Enterprise versions.
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