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Hey I got a dell 2400 with a celeron 2.2ghz,40gb hd,and i think 256mb or 128mb ram and I was thinking of ordering some ram (2 sticks of 512mb ram) and I was wondering if that would boost the performance of the computer because I really want to use scenery at high levels like the terrain texture high I can use perfectly with my current configuration but if I put on some AI traffic and dense scenery it goes at like half a frame per second so I was curious a gig of ram would help it?

I'm guessing with a low spec dell such as this the power of the graphics chip will be small to non-existent. I doubt 2 more sticks of RAM (1Gb) would make a huge amount of difference on its own if you have no graphics card capable of using it. Upgrading the RAM to about 512Mbs & upgrading the graphics card would probably be the most cost effective way to make an improvement.

But you haven

This space reserved for post purchase after thoughts when a Dell used to look so good.  

I find it so hard to break the news

No problem thanks a lot!

mind you, i'm the right person (almost) for you. i gots a 2400 w/ P4 2.6 Ghz.
if you can believe it, a gig of ram did make a nice improvement. i bought 2 kingston 512mb 333DDR ram (i think thats right) and it picks up where the processor and graphics leave off.

I managed to boost my graphics to a higher level, although there is still room for improvement.

More RAM will not give as good an end result as say a 6 series Nvidia card !

I've recently upgraded a mates PC, 2.4 Celeron, 1Gb pc2100 DDR RAM and a 6600GT. - His old spec was 256MB RAM, FX5600 card.

FS9 runs roughly twice as fast at double the rez of the old setup !

No need to ditch that Celeron, yet.  ;)