Can my PC cope?

[wiserommer]

Here is my situation at the moment i have 120G HDD 7200rpm witha 1200 AMD processor 512G fo ram.

Now here is my question i want to add another 120G HDD rpm 7200 or higher and more ram 512 DDR if possible, but do you think you think my processor could cope with that much harddrive space?

 

[Skivvywaver]

The 2 are unrelated. Yes it will cope if the rest of your hardware can. Your power supply and motherboard are your limitaions on ram and hard drives, not your CPU.

 

[Jack Horner]

Also, what OS? Windows9x has problems with over 512mg.

 

[wiserommer]

windows xp SP1

 

[etaf]

I have an amd 1700+ which is about 1.4G and I have 3 drives on the PC
2 off 120GB and 1 40GB and it works fine

so there should be no problem adding more harddrives providing you have space on IDE cables - DVD and CD take up an IDE space

post the actual make/model of motherboard

as far as memory - I would check out to see if another 512MB is going to really make any more difference to the applications you run, what applications are you running - also again need to check the motherboard will take it.

 

[wiserommer]

well ive got one name "PC DDR 333" thats the name of the bucklet that came with the mothrboard

 

[etaf]

I dont know that one
these programes should identify the hardware make/model etc
The program is freeware called EVEREST Home Edition v1.10 and can be downloaded from http://www.lavalys.com/index.php?page=product&view=1&subpage=5
or http://www.belarc.com

This is a useful wizard for detecting hardware
http://www.cpuid.com/pcw.php

 

[Skivvywaver]

Download CPU-Z and it will tell you what motherboard you have.
http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

Another program that will do the same is everest, but it is a much larger download.

 

[wiserommer]

ok the name of the motherboard is PCChips M848A i dont know if that makes any sense so

 

[wiserommer]

so can it handle it ya think

 

[Skivvywaver]

http://www.pcchips.com.tw/PCCWeb/Pr...ryID=1&TypeID=4&DetailID=341&MenuID=0&LanID=0

Yes, it will handle it. You only have 2 memory slots so any upgrade is going to have to be 512 sticks

If you have 2 256 strips now, to get to a gig you would need 2 512 sticks.

 

[wiserommer]

nah i have one 512 ram stick..so another one will be fine ...thanks for your help guys