How can I find out what upgrade would most improve performance?

[cascade9]

That Compaq site is truely awful!

It is....right pain to navigate IMO.

This seems to indicate that I can go up to 2 gig of memory:
http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/list...X1000%20Series

and thinks that there's 2x256 in there. I could buy one 1gig stick and leave one of the 245 sticks in there and see how that goes.

You should be able to go to 2GB, that is the max RAM for most of the Pentium -M chipsts. Sometimes corporate manufacturers do put artifical limits on the max RAM however.

And don't worry cascade9. Google have some great products, but I refuse to use them.

Not sure how to check which of the 2 CPU types I have installed, but memory is probably the way to go from here anyway.

Thanks all
Damian

The easiers way to check what CPU you are running is with sudo lshw.

If you CPU cache (1) is 1024k, is a original P-M 1.6Ghz, if its 2048k, then its the later 730.

lshw will also show what RAM slots are filled, and what size memory sticks are in there

[Daminator]

I threw a 1gig card in there and took out one of the 256's. All seems significantly better now. Thanks for the help all !!

D

[cascade9]

No problems