i'm currently helping my friend out with her old PC, not exactly old but here's the basic setup Pentium 4 1.8 ghz 256 mb RAM Ge-Force FX5700LE 128mb 80 GIG HDD looking at above i think she needs another strip of 256mb RAM, however i have no idea which ram shd i get for her. i tried removing the ram and look at it but there's not specs on the speed, only a series of alphabets and numbers followed by a slash 256, which i guess is the memory. next, i went to her BIOS and took a look at her AGP slot settings, the aperture size i changed it to 128mb, but AGP speed is maxed at only 4x, meaning the 8x card is underutitlized (if i'm not wrong) i was wondering if i update her bios (can i actually do it myself or get a techie), will i be able to change the max AGP speed to 8x?

by the way, what type/speed ram that i should be looking at?

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thanks jam i'm not at her place now. only in a couple of days can i try,but i tried CPU-Z with my own comp and it seems be be rather comprehensive. thanks

No problem. By using it, you can determine what RAM she has...my guess is PC2100, but it could be RDRAM or even PC133 if it's an old socket 423 board. As for the 4X vs 8X AGP issue...if the board doesn't support 8X, there's nothing you can do about it. Actually, the performance difference between 4X & 8X is minor. This space for rent

PC2100 would be my best guess, it seems difficult to find such in the market alaready