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icomeformusic	Date: March 24, 2006 @ 12:29 AM whats a good free utility program i can download, something that will optimize ram, clean hd, and all that fun stuff, or it would be cool if you gave me a link to a trusted site where you can download the expensive shit for free! but not illegally of course
Distilled1	Date: March 24, 2006 @ 1:02 PM ZDnetDownloads I recomend not messing with trying to have a program optimize ram it makes it worse 99% of the time, optimize my adding the max. cleaning the HD I find the best is just use windows disk clean up and defrag. What ever you do don't use norton system doctor to even defrag .. man that thing will wack your registry all to hell! XP search optimizing XP on google there are lots of great tricks/tips to really make it run great
icomeformusic	Date: March 25, 2006 @ 10:35 AM ya they let you dl it and they show that you have a million things wrong and then you have to buy it, lol i have a 80gig harddrive, but only 256 mb of ram, it sucks too, cause i have about 2gb of ram, but it wont fit into the dell, apparently its not universal anymore
Distilled1	Date: March 25, 2006 @ 10:41 AM nope you have to use the propper ddr I just went through that the 512 I bought to bring it to 1mg was 89$ because it was a slower older pc2700 ddr1 I could have bought pc 5500 ddr2 for 40$! search what your max ram is for the dell. there are free ones that will work for 30,60 and 90 days.
icomeformusic	Date: March 25, 2006 @ 5:20 PM thats gibberish too me, lol
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: March 25, 2006 @ 9:37 PM what kind of Dell do you have? If you're running XP, 256 mb sucks a$$ (the XP operating system can use as much as 130-150 MB Ram) and won't allow you to do much in terms of music recording, especially if you integrated graphics (i.e. Intel Extreme, Intel graphics media 900 etc), ati x200 etc. which also use your system ram. There are many flavours of ram due to different bus speeds and motherboard chipsets and then laptop ram is of course different to desktop ram too. Tell me the name (e.g. dimension 9100, inspiron 6000, latitude d5000 etc.) of your dell and the correct ram (i.e. pc2700 ddr333 etc) can be determined.
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: March 25, 2006 @ 9:39 PM P.S. Dell usually charges reasonable prices for DDR ram that will definately work with your computer, so might be worth checking out, although Crucial, Kingston etc. ram should work fine...
icomeformusic	Date: March 26, 2006 @ 1:43 AM dell dimension 2400 and i have ram from like 4 or 5 other computers( about 9 chip things)SEC, MTBL(sais malaysia on it also)Another M sign, (sais 128 mb on it) hynix (128mb) hyundai, Kingston alot are repeats, there all from older comps, like 3 or 4 years ago, maybe less, maybe more my school was throwing away computers, so took the ram
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: March 26, 2006 @ 3:02 AM lick this link for Dell Dimension 2400 ddr from dell http://accessories.dell.com/sna/MemConfigProductListing.aspx?c=ca&l=en&cs=CADHS1&ManufactSelection=694&FamilySelection=Dimension&ModelSelection=124672 the dimension 2400 uses 184 pin DDR memory - it supports eitherPC 2700 DDR@ 333 or DDR @400. Find out which kind the 256MB is and use the same kind for an upgrade, unless you want to deselect the 256 ram for a higher amount (as only 2 slots available) The Dimension 2400 has 2 DIMM slots supporting up to 2GB - I recommend you look at at least a 512 MB Dimm to supplement your 256 and pref. a 1GB stick. 1GB ram runs music applications a LOT better with a LOT more tracks/effects than 512 megs.
icomeformusic	Date: March 26, 2006 @ 1:04 PM thanks man, very useful info so do you think i would get anything for all this ram i have now? like a hundred dollars for all the sticks i have now, im sure they add up to somewhere around 4GB
Distilled1	Date: March 26, 2006 @ 3:50 PM Only if someone can use them 128 is garbage for anything even remotly new. I have a ton of 256 laying around
Britmick	Date: September 14, 2006 @ 7:45 AM Send me an email address, I'll send you he software you Need.

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