The scan results open in your web browser and should reveal the following: Visit the Crucial Scanner website, tick the box to agree to the T&Cs then Download the Scanner – save it to desktop then run it. Scanner Tool – Alternatively, the Crucial System Scanner can automatically analyze your computer and suggest a compatible RAM upgrade. In this case there are only 2 RAM slots and both are already used so we would probably look for 2 x 2GB sticks of PC2-5300 DDR2 RAM to replace the current memory and provide a new total of 4GB.Ģ. The ‘Max Bandwidth’ category is the specification of the RAM – in this case it is PC2-5300.Īrmed with this information we now know everything we need to buy more RAM. The type is DDR2 and the size of each stick is 1024MB which is 1GB – i.e. The ‘SPD’ section shows that there are 2 modules (sticks) of RAM – 1 per slot. Run Speccy and select the RAM tab as shown below: Speccy RAM info See our separate review of Speccy for more details and how to download. Speccy – Speccy is a free system information tool from Piriform – the company behind Ccleaner (which we have recommended before as the best way to delete temporary files from a computer).

If you do need to add more RAM (or replace existing RAM modules with larger capacities), how can you find out which type of RAM you need to buy?Here are 2 simple ways to find out which type of RAM you need to buy.ġ.

The article gave a general guide to RAM requirements and showed how to find out if a computer would benefit from more RAM.

I’ve reviewed before whether adding more RAM (memory) can make a computer run faster.

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