New motherboard and/or processor

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  1. Timmylo

    Timmylo Member

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    Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help me out a little bit here.

    So I don't know much about computers but I recently bought a PC and its pretty decent, except I noticed that sometimes it doesn't run exactly the way I want to when I'm playing videogames so I went out bought a Radeon HD5770 video card, and bumped it up from 2 gigs of ram to 4, little to my knowledge my motherboard stops at like 3.23gigs of ram, my brother explained it to me, so I'm not sure if I should just upgrade my motherboard but if I do that apparently I may have to change my processor to fit the new motherboard, and possibly new ram, now I didnt build this pc I bought it used off a guy, he says that it has a intel D 3.00 ghz, which I assume is a intel dual core with 3.00 ghz, how would I find out what kind of mother board I have is there some sort of program? and would there be any worthy processors that would be compatible in it as well.
     
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    the motherboard reads 4gigs of ram but your windows is reading 3.23gigs of ram as your windows is the 32bit version not the 64bit version. the pentium D 3ghz is a single core cpu not a dual core. in white printing on the motherboard will read the make & model# of the motherboard such as asrock p4i65g or something like that.
     
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    ahhh makes sense yes i am running 32bit windows, thanks for the input and i'll get around to find out my make and model thanks for the heads up! appreciate it!
     
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    no problem.
     

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