Recommended Budget RAM for PC

fishessss

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Hi,

These are my current computer specs and it is running a little slow.

Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit
Intel Core i3-6100 CPU @3.7GHz
4 GB Ram
Intel HD Graphics 530
Sandisk 256 GB SSD

Any recommended Ram i should get to increase my performance?

Thanks!
 

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Do you happen to know your motherboard brand and model?


Based on intel website:
DDR4-1866/2133, DDR3L-1333/1600

Just wanna make sure if your on DDR3 or DDR4 memory... As they are different.

Otherwise you can download the portable version of CPU-Z
https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html

cpuz.jpg


Go into SPD and see what the current RAM type you have on your SLOT 1 to 4 or Slot 1 to 2
** motherboard details would be show on mainboard page
 
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Slow not necessarily mean you need more RAM, could be a wide variety of reasons. better you provide a more detailed description of what you mean by slow also.

Is it all the time or when running certain programs? Or bootup/shutdown slow? Etc.

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could be some background app that is hogging your system, try posting some pic on your task manager.
 

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If it is HDD do defrag.
This sometimes help to speed up you computer.

Uh uh siol

These are my current computer specs and it is running a little slow.

Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit
Intel Core i3-6100 CPU @3.7GHz
4 GB Ram
Intel HD Graphics 530
Sandisk 256 GB SSD

Anyway, I won't be surprised if the Sandick drive is the one uplorrying...
 

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Hi sorry for late reply, its my uncle's PC.

He uses the Chinese (han yu pin yin language), he uses the computer for simple browsing, once in a while go Viwawa and play. When he opens multiple tabs on the browser (Firefox), he says it lags alot or the han yu pin yin thing will crash.

Anyway, late reply was because the computer crashed, so trying to find out what went wrong, though i need to go over to his house then i can determine the problem.

Why would Sandisk uplorry? Is it a inferior SSD brand? The Windows 10 was only recently installed on the SSD as his previous harddisk had issues, so the content on the SSD should be clean, don't think will have much programmes running behind.

Bootup/Startup takes around 3 seconds, so i guess thats not the issue.

Motherboard brand i am not sure yet, need to go back and see, i would think it is MSI. Someone else helped him buy the parts and fixed up the computer, yet it is still lousier then mine which was fixed up on my own earlier then him.

Sorry cannot give you exact problem because i dont use it, but from what he described, it seems like it is lacking of ram, cause i understand 4gb ram can only allow 32-bit, at least 8gb needed to activate the 64-bit right? Thats why i was thinking of increasing the ram, but please give me input as my knowledge might be flawed
 

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Hi, u wanna try jus doing a reformat first? Coz seems like yr hardware is working fine judging from your bootup time. I mean it's free and don't take up too much time. Worth a try especially when said user is computer illiterate and dunno what they accidentally installed during usage
 
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