Thoughts on this upgrade qoute

Hey fullas

Ive got a HP xw4300. I use it mainly to play online poker. As I am starting to play more tables my PC's performance is getting more laboured.... to the point where the games will occasionally crash. This can be mind fuckingly expensive, and I need to sort it

Why questions are.

# Is adding more memory the answer?

# If I am on the right track what do you think opf this qoute?

Hi xxxx
The HP xw4300 work station has 4 memory slots and max to 8G (max 2G for per slot)

KTH-XW4300E/1G (1005094) Kingston 1G ddr2 667 ECC Memory $115+gst
KTH-XW4300E/2G (1005219) Kingston 2G ddr2 667 ECC Memory $217.78+gst



Cheers muchly

That machine was a fairly high-end workstation machine a few years ago, and because of that they have specified ECC memory. This is error correcting stuff you usually only see in servers, and really isn't needed, it wont really help you any. And it's mind-numbingly expensive.

What I would do is rip out what is in there, and replace with this:
http://playtech.co.nz/afawcs0139235/CATID=252/ID=633/SID=160342863/productdetails.html

4gb DDR2 for $210 inclusive.

However: if you're only running 32bit Windows, you will only be able to use 3.25gb of that 4gb. Sooooooo - adding more RAM would probably help, but it would be only a bandaid.

Cheap way forward:
Upgrade the RAM ($210 inc)
Upgrade to 64-bit Windows 7 ($250ish) (and assuming your CPU will support it)

Longer term, less fucking around way:
Buy a new damn machine :>
Brand name, I'd get something like this:
http://www1.ap.dell.com/nz/en/business/vostrodt/vostro-430/pd.aspx?refid=vostro-430&s=bsd&cs=nzbsd1
The left one (upgraded to 4gb+ RAM) if you want to try and keep costs down, the right one if you want uber-speed.

Locally, Playtech are good people.
http://playtech.co.nz/afawcs0139235/CATID=140/ID=13327/SID=125927055/productdetails.html
or talk to them and they will build to order if you want an i7 machine.

Thanks a lot for saving me from pointlessly spending the maneys!

sigh tho. A new machine? Again? I have 4 fricken boxes laying around gathering dust already. When does it end?

If you get a Mac you will win more at poker and also I wouldn't be surprised if you ended up fucking a hot2death Asian graphic design student as well.

Damn it, I must be using mine wrong...

Don't ask how much old shit I still have lying around.

"But it still works! It's perfectly fine, it's not rubbish!"

Dell are pissing me off at the moment so id go with HP. ordered something on the 14th april, had no word from them till i chased it up in the weekend and now theyre saying june 2nd. Its just a fucking laptop where the only options were colour and amount of ram.

Don't curse me, just ordered another 8 netbooks today

This guy knows my hot buttons

Im just going to go ahead and buy the vostro I think, had major issues playing yesterday as well and it puts me in an extremly bad mood. When you put a lot of effort into gaming shit and then something external fucks it up its utterly infuriating. Orcon is awesome but on the odd occasion its failed it takes all my strength not to get all unhinged on the call centre peeps.

Old boxes are weird things. I suppose I could sell them for.... nexttonothing, but they feel like part of me somehow so I guess I gotta find room for them in some corner of my dwellings for the rest of my life

Well I dont like the sound of that, I know Dell are web based cant I just saunter into their showroom with my fistfull of dollars?

answered my own stupid question. Harvey Norman or internet, better get ordering then

You didn't say how much ram you currently have.

I doubt the RAM would be associated with the crashes but could be a cause of slow performance.

Chances are you don't need a new machine.. Just do a clean install.

Poker windows aren't really that taxing on a machine to require you to go out and get the latest and greatest.

You'd be silly to not at least do a clean install and check it out before you sink the cash..

Harvey Norman is the last place I'd by a new PC from, its to poker equivilent of calling out "woohoo Ace's" on the flop.

2GG of ram on that machine and the OS build would be 3 or so months old.

If the build is only 3 months old and crashing already you must have gotten a monkey to build it for ya Maestro!