This Asus motherboard is about eight years old now and if you want to get RAM for it, it needs to be DDR2-800. The board has a total of four slots and can handle a maximum of 8GB, thus the largest capacity stick it can handle is 2GB. I cannot give you prices but can advise you to consider brands such as Kingston, HyperX (formerly a product line of Kingston), Mushkin, and Crucial. Though many recommend Corsair, I have had nothing but issues with them, so I recommend the other brands I've mentioned.
You cannot, the K701O only allows for 4GB.
FCS2 works superbly on the MacBook Pro. Motion 3 might be a little juddery if you use too many effects, but other than that, it'll work smoothly. The minimum requirements are linked in the Related links section below.
Prodigy MK1 Gaming Series - AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition Quad-Core / AMD 790FX / Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 1066MHz / WD VelociRaptor 300GB + WD Black 1TB / 2 x ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB (CrossFire) / LG Blu-Ray Player DVD-writer Combo / Cooler Master HAF 932 Chassis / Corsair HX 1000W PSU/ Windows 7
ProcessorIntel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00Ghz LGA 775 6MB CacheMemory4GB DDR2 PC-6400/800Mhz (2x2GB) RamHard Drive808GB 7200rpm SATA 2 Hard Disk DriveOptical22x/10x SATA Dual Layer DVD WriterGraphicsATI Radeon HD4670 512MB Graphics Card (PCIE)CaseATX Midi Tower - Black/SilverPower SupplyMinimum 500W PSU suppliedInput DevicesKeyboard & Optical MouseSpeakersLogitech 2.1Monitor20" High Resolution (1600x900) Widescreen LCDChipsetGigabyte or Asus mainboard provided
first: Get a new hard drive, install win7 on it. Get a USB to SATA interface to copy your old files over. I noticed a particular problem here. It seems your HDD is 9.5mm instead of standard 12.7mm. You should check and see if theres extra space for a thicker hard drive. A SSD will improve boot times and most activities a LOT. Maybe get 1 4gb stick of RAM, to see if it supports more than 4gb and upgrade. If it doesn't, leave it with the 1 4gb stick. Or you can get 2x2gb for very cheap, this is the best option for ddr2. For gaming, there just isn't much you can do. Maybe try overclocking with MSI afterburner, but don't do it if you temps go above 80c. You can overclock your FSB & CPU with Nvidia system tools but thats bit crazy.
The most straight-forward answer to your question(although probably not what you wanted to know) is that in the case of graphics cards Radeon HD6990 and GeForce 590 share the throne, although they both cost very much and are very hard to obtain, the latter costs as much as a budget PC.As for RAM, quad channel configuration for the new Sandy Bridge-E Intel processors(Core i7-3820 - Core i7-3960X) is the best right now.It depends on what you're planning to do with that computer.If watching 1080p HD movies is what going to stress the graphics card the most then some built-in graphics cards can handle that.As for Ram you needn't worry, even 1GB(for win 7) should be sufficient.If some gaming may be present then you should ask yourself, how much will you spend on the graphics card?A mid-end 1GB graphics card and some 512MB card should handle most top games at mid-high quality.And for RAM a Dual-channel 4GB(2X2GB) 1333Mhz configuration is both cheap and sufficient for all your needs.
THE "CL" stands for "CAS Latency" the number of clock cycles it takes before data starts to flow once a command is received. Low CAS latency is faster than high CAS. You would not be able to tell the difference between waiting 4 clock cycles as to 5 clock cycles since a 200MHz bus is 200 million clock cycles a second....go with whatever is cheaper and easy for you to handle when installing it. Personnally, I'd go for the 2X2GB, that is two less sticks of RAM you have to worry about going dead on you.
Laptops do not have a VGA or PCI-E x16 slot so, no. Most have integrated graphics. Sometimes you can send it into the manufacturer to get a better integrated graphics chip installed, but you're probably better off buying a new laptop as the aforementioned process can be excruciatingly expensive and you'll be out of a laptop for a while. -Jonathan C. Holcomb Ok, you can use an ExpressCard to PCI-E converter device, which does exist,and then install whatever PCI-E card you want on that. That way it would use an external display, but it would work. -Turgut Kalfaoglu
RAM is partly dependent on your system's avalible slots. however, usually it's a case of the capacity of your OS for example, I have 4GB(2x2GB) Ram in my PC - on XP it reads 3.25Gb of RAM - this is as XP can only handle around 3Gb where as vista can handle 4 and x64 operating systems can handle much more