I love the current well feeling I have right now. After the weekend intervention that helped me decide to leave the MS site, every day moving forward has felt better and clearer to me. I did not realize how I was being dragged down in an endless spiral I was in. My nature and how I trained myself to care for others against my adoptive family’s childhood training. Maybe that was why I never fit in with them, they sought and took advantage of everyone, I try to help or establish a bond with everyone. Is it genetic or learned behavior, I guess I won’t ever know.
Today started as I like it. I got up at a bit late for me, and after taking care of the cats and stuff, I reached out to an online friend. I wish I had more online friends that want to voice chat like my new friend does. See I always and still do have contact with all my online friends except on via email or blog comments. When this friend suggested voice talk I was not at ease with it. But once I got use to it I find I enjoy it. I was worried it would trigger my intense fear of talking on the phone. But like on Skype I found it doesn’t trigger me. I would like to find others to do that with but that is a topic for another day.
So after that I moved on to other things on the computers, videos and news, gathering memes for my Friday meme post. But soon I went back to bed for an hour before we get up to walk. But after a vivid dream, I woke up well after sun up. I woke Ron and asked him if he wanted to walk, he said not today. So I went back to sleep for a bit. I woke up, got up, medicated and fed cats, then settled in to blog.
The point of my post is I am feeling good for once in days, and when Ron got up we spent more time together. We worked on projects together and talked about other things.
This is a question I have for the IT people that come here, my XPS has 2133 MHz ram. It can be increased from the 16 I have to 64 which is with in my budget. The faster / the newest computer is Inspiron with 2400 memory but is topped out at 16 GB ram which it has. It normally runs over 50% ram usage to 65% usage. Ron wants me to boost the XPS to 64 GB of ram and switch to using it to blog on. I simply don’t know how to move forward with the upgrades, but even though the memory is not expensive I don’t want to sink money into computers that might be aging out.
The whole post is about how I am feeling good for the first time in a long time. I was doing dishes while Ron was out and my back was giving out, I was bent so low over the sink when he came in he thought I was going to nose dive into the sink. My back had given out but I was struggling to finish. But when he came in, he took over right away. He finished the dishes while I went to the bedroom to fold the laundry. See it is the standing in one place I can not do, my back gives out when I try. It is why I hate going grocery shopping with Ron as he stops and compares everything. So then he came down and helped me finish the laundry. Then he made me a grand salad and after I eat I am going to bed. I had a wonderful, fulfilling day. Hugs, Scottie
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Memory upgrades are often a very useful way to get additional life out of an older computer. Just make sure you buy the same speed and type memory as currently in use. To max it out, you might need to replace the existing memory, as you will be limited by the number of available slots on the motherboard. For example, you might have four slots with 4gb RAM in each, thus full. You would then buy four 16gb RAM sticks and replace the existing memory. Honestly, that is the most likely outcome.
The last time I added RAM to an older computer, it had 4 slots, but only two were in use. I bought w of the largest available for that system, and put them in the open slots. Worth noting, you typically add or replace in pairs. That’s not a hard and fast rule though.
I usually recommend that non IT folks take their computer to Best Buy or a similar store, and let their technicians tell you what the options are for that specific machine.
Good luck.
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Hi Janet. Thank you for the input. Yes that part I get. The one I want to boost has 4 memory slots and has two 8 ram sticks in it. I would have to put 2400 ram in because I can not get 2133 but that won’t make a difference it will only slow down the 2400 to the board speed or if you have 2133 ram the 2400 will be slowed down to 2133. At least that was the way it used to work. But what I need to understand is this. The XPS has an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz with boost ability and the Inspiron I use to blog has an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz with boost ability. I just don’t think the extra ram will make up for the slightly slower processor and motherboard
Back in the Army I was a Satellite repair and operator, and when I got out I took a short class on computer building / repair and have done that for years. My question is not so much the how as to what will be the gain for the money. From other computer geeks I have talked to over the last few days, the consensus is it won’t really do much for me until my memory drag increases to 70 / or 75 percent I won’t see any real advantage from doing it. Again thanks for your suggestions. Hugs. Scottie
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Hi Scottie;
I wanted to simply like this post, but can’t figure out where the “like” button went. I’d give advice on the ram installation, but if I can’t figure out how to like a post you got zero hope that I can add thoughts on ram. I prefer Chevy, by the way. (How do I have dad jokes and don’t have kids?)
What I will say is this: We all find ourselves doing something we think is important, good, an obligation… If it is tearing you apart to do something, then stop. (for those who can’t hear it, Scottie is right now rolling out of his chair laughing at my hypocrisy)
Hugs to my big brother.
Randy
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Hi Randy. 😜😛🤣😂💖👍
Dad jokes are contagious if you spend too much time around older men. It is communicable. I think there is a vaccine for it. The long story short … too late … is I know how to do it, but the question is should I bother to do it? It would cost about $105 to do it. I don’t think it would give me enough of a performance increase to be worth it. Hugs. Scottie
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Sounds like it was a great day, to me! Here’s to more of them, for all of us!
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Hi Ali. I have been spending a lot of time all last week with Ron, doing things together, doing housework together, walking or just talking. Hugs. Scottie
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