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I have 96MB SDRAM on my Dell Intel Celeron Processor.

I want to add 64 MB of RAM because I want my system to run very quickly.

I feel that adding more RAM is the best way to make the applications on your computer run more efficiently...Will adding more RAM affect anything on my computer?

I can install up to 512MB of RAM on my computer.

Thanks in advance for the help... Let me know if more information is required...

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by dmiles

There will be a performance increase,but donot expect very much it will not affect anything in particular it depends on your basic use and how the system is configured nothin that could cause any problems by doing some research on the type of memoryyou currently have and match the same type of memory.
Reference the following sites for information about memory
www.kingston.com
www.crucial.com

by nick l

as "soulrider" says, it's totally dependent upon what you are doing. There are a number of bottlenecks possible in a system, e.g. processor, memory, disk, graphics card etc. obviously you will speed you machine up best by upgrading the part that is slowing you down. Is that English?
To be honest, unless your system is primarily memory bound, I'm not sure that adding 64Mb to 96 is ging to make it "run very quickly". What operating system do you use? have a look at the system tools to display memory usage or get your hands on some tools that will tell you.
I know this all sounds vague, but for example if you are hoping to use the machine for games the video card will have a far greater effect on speed that memory. If you are wanting to run several applications at the same time, throw memory at it. At todays prices on memory though I would consider going higher than just an extra 64.
Important! have a look at your machine documentation to determine what combination of memory boards it supports if that is still the way that you want to go.

Final point repeated though. Do not expect that just adding another 64Mb will make it "very quick". It may improve performance, maybe even drastically, but only if you have a specific memorybottleneck such that an extra 64Mb will allow the machine to run from memory as opposed to paging out to disk.

by gonzo2

SDRAM is cheap - just do it...
You can always use the RAM in another PC anyway.
Task switching will be faster. So will some o/s services. Less HDD activity will be a big plus - lower swapping moves anyway.
If you want to really improve performance, buy a new(er) system, trading in the old.
(Personally, I'd like to see a o/s that allows something like a massively parallel process spread across many networked PCs. I beleive I read something on that a while back. Just think of all those "wasted" cycles in all those networked and internetworked PCs...)

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