xmachine,ram,& vista os

[max]

Hello:
My old pc hard-drive blew out about a year & half ago; it also was getting outdated, so I went to Best Buy to buy new pc. I purchased an emachine.
When taking to salesperson I bought upgrade emach with just 1 ram. The basic emachine just came with half a gig of ram.
What he didn't tell me was Vista takes half a ram, & there is only 2 slots for total of 2 gigs of ram.
I just broke the pc seal to look inside, & I'm stuck at 2 Ram.
There are games like Empire, Witcher, etc,, that will run choppy, or slow; is there a way to cut Vista os window Ram use to run the games?
Thanks for any help in this area.
Sincerely,
Max
P.S. Emach. is now selling there're pc with minium 3 gigs ram.

 

[Butler]

Well depending on the OS you have 32 bit or 64 you have plenty of options with 2 slots.

On 32 bit vista you can only go 4gb max so two, 2Gb sticks =4Gb would be fine. Also real cheap on newegg.com

 

[max]

Thanks for reply. I will look into it, I'm glad to hear about 4gb.

 

[archie123]

i thought max said his mobo max was 2gb??

 

[max]

Hello:
I have a EMach T5062, Vista 32. The website you gave me does not list this model for 2gb per slot of ram, for each slot. This machine has 2 slots, when I opened it up, there was half gig in each slot = one gig. for pc.

 

[mansrm81]

You can only add 2 1GB sticks for a total of 2GBs of ram that is the max your motherboard can handle. Here is the link to your computer.

eMachines Support: Product Support and Downloads

 

[max]

Ok, thanks for info, that's what I thought.

 

[mansrm81]

Yep no problem max.

 

[max]

What got me confused was I called a BestBuy & the guy I talked to told me he could put 4 GB Ram in with no problem. I get mixed messages about this, so I thought maybe 2GB of Ram in each slot gives the 4 GB Ram. But, when I checked around to buy ram on-line, it didn't come as 2GB sticks, just 1 GB per stick, which btw I just put in 1 gb per slot. I did see that the manufacturer's site said 2GB limit, but from some people telling me it can be upgraded to 4GB; I got confused.
If 4 GB Ram can be put into this pc I sure like to know where to buy it?
If I'm stuck at 2gb ram; I download a game demo that states: 1gb ram xp, 2gb ram vista: everytime I've downloaded a game demo that states this, it still runs slow &\or choppy.
What games should I be ok with ram size? I'm stuck with 2gb ram, so what is the ram limit in my situation?
Thanks.

 

[Prak06]

RAM Memory Upgrade: Dell, Mac, Apple, HP, Compaq. USB drives, flash cards, SSD at Crucial.com

Use this site, best site scans your computer and tells you the maximum amount of RAM you can put in and how many slots there are and how many you have already taken up with the RAM you already have.

Follow instruction on the website and it should scan ur PC.

Hope that helps