Memory ?

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Nakattk

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currently have 4x512mb sticks in my hp computer. I want to upgrade the performance a little bit to help with My wifes game The sims 2. I can't upgrade the cpu casue its Hp and I dont want any problems if I tried ,also its socket 939 and its hard to find those chips now. I was wondering if I got 2x1gb sticks of gaming memory would it help, or would it just be a waste of money? I found a Gskill set on Newegg for $60. My current specs are below. Thank you for any help.

Btw as you can see it has become my fankinputer alot of the items below are not oem. Only the ones that if i changed might require the xp disk that hp does not give you.

HP a1250n
Athlon 64 X2 3800 Socket 939
4x512mb DDR pc 3200
BFG 8800Gt
250 GB SATA
700w ocz psu
SB X-Fi sound card
1680X1050 Res.
 
Things would generally run a little smoother especially if the current memory is 512mb of value ram compared to picking up a 2gb kit(pair of 1gb dimms) of performance memory. But with any prebuild generally you can only expect so much.

The idea of fewer small dimms for a pair of larger dimms works in theory for simply smoothing things out. But for a real performance gain shopping around for a faster model cpu since the 3800+ is about 2ghz for a 2.4-2.6ghz model while still around would see things in general run a little faster. The jump from a 2.2ghz single core model(3500+) on the last build here to the 6000+ X2 AM2 3.14ghz model now seen made a large difference in both XP and Vista alike.

The Opteron 180 2.4ghz model once looked at here is seen at http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1649954 The Opty 165 was the ocer however in that line.

Changing the cpu won't see any need for reinstalling Windows while AMD currently has a patch available if any problems were seen. The fastest but long discontinued model for the 939 type boards was the FX-60 3ghz model. That was the one dual core in the FX performance series.

But all is not lost since there is one place that still carries the discontinued 939 line up seeing several models at http://www.xpcgear.com/eolamd939.html
 
Thanks for the info. I think I'll try the memory kit. Before I will pay for a new 939 cpu I think I would just build a new system. I'm only a motherboard and os system away from having one build just cant seem to get the funds together atm.
 
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