Okay, I bought a new EMachines T3604, and I wanna upgrade its RAM. Im new to this thing, so bear with me. What would I need? DDR or DDR2? ANy specific brand? And a question about the Intel(R) 82945G Express Chipset Family, it says "up to 200+ shared memory", yet it only has 32 on currently. When I upgrade my RAM, will it use more of my memory to give better graphics? Thanks.

Your eMachines uses DDR2-533 (PC2-4200). But no matter how much RAM you install, your graphics won't improve. Intel's integrated Graphics Media Accelerator 950 is one of the worst. You're in luck though...your board has a PCI-e x16 slot. So if you plan on doing any gaming, you can always add a *real* graphics card. http://www.emachines.com/products/p... BTW, if money is tight, you wouldn't necessarily have to spend a lot on a video card. Even a cheap PCI-e card is better than the GMA 950.

Your Ram type is DDR-2. You already have 1 stick of 512mb DDR-2 533 (4200) memory. So there for you should get another stick of DDR-2 533 (4200) when you decide to upgrade. Most major ram namebrands like Kingston Crucial, Cosair will work with just about all motherboards. That is saying that you have an intergrated graphics processor aka IGP that can share up to 224mb of ram from your pc ram, but right now it's only sharing off your main pc ram 32mb of ram. You can go into the bios by hitting F2 and adjust the ram settings for your igp to allow it to share more of your pc ram, but with only 512mb of pc ram that you have that wouldn't be wise, plus it's not going to be any type of preformance booster for your intergrated graphics processor considering that the GMA-950 IGP is a very poor IGP in terms of gaming and video editing. Adding more ram will help system preformance but it isn't going to help your graphics preformance considering no IGP is truly made for gaming or video editing unlike stand-alone graphics cards. if you want a decent pc for gaming you are pretty much going to have to throw in at least an Pentium D 945 processor in which your motherboard can take, at least a nvidia Geforce PCI-E 7800GS and at least another 1gb of ram. Not to mention getting a better power supply unit that is atx 2.0 and has at least 450 watts to it. So what i'm saying is you need to spend at least 350 dollars to turn this into a decent gaming type of machine that you want it to be. Ooops sorry jam didn't mean to step over you on this post i was writing this when you were posting. AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ OC 2.7ghz 4GB Dual Channel DDR 3200 Nvidia 7900GT SATA II 2x 300gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0+1 Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI

Would this RAM work? http://shop3.outpost.com/product/44...

If you get a high end video card you will also need to thing about an adequate power supply. eMachines have notoriously poor ones and frequently take out other comoponents when they fail. That new graphics card could be the nail in the coffin.