Frustrating upgrading. Thank much if you help!

[East Star]

So I've been "About" to upgrade for about 5 months.

Lol my issue is being told theres no reason to upgrade.

However, I was told I need to upgrade my RAM and my CPU to get some good flying power.

Now I do know my computers and components. I'm no newbie at this, however, this is confused me these pass few months.

My computer specs are;

Hewlett-Packard Compaq Presario.

AMD Athlon 64 3800+

2.40 Ghz

1.00 GB of RAM

My motherboard is an ASUS (Socket AM2)

My RAM however, is like PC2 4200

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I know for sure my CPU is upgradeable. The RAM however I may run into a bit of a hassle. I wanted to get at least 2 GB of RAM (and some good RAM like Kingston)

I know for sure I need a new Power supply change with only (250 WATTS)


My upgrade specs;

ASUS SLI Wireless AM2 motherboard (if needed)

Kingston HyperX 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)

AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 3.0 GHz (Socket AM2)

Sorry if it's all confusing. I'm trying to make a minor change to the PC. This one is starting to lag a bit and I need a memory upgrade and wanting and CPU upgrade.

Thank if you can help!

[C-Lovely]

The only thing you may need to really upgrade is you memory. What are you running?

[East Star]

I've been running Ableton Live 6 (7 Soon)

FL

A lot of Vst's

I record much also and using chain effects. So it's a bit hectic when the it lags.

[C-Lovely]

IF your going to use that many VST's and effects, than I would upgrade your memory first. I would add more memory first and see how that works before upgrading your processor. I would also have all my music programs one a seperate drive and have all your music files on a seperate drive as well.