Will my 10 years old pc bottleneck?

[ImInHugeTrouble]

Hi I want to upgrade ram of my current system which only has 2x2gb 677mhz.

 

I want to upgrade to 4x4gb 1333mhz. Will this bottleneck?

Q9550

Asus P5q turbo

750 ti

enermax tomahawk 500watt

[TechyBen]

Bottleneck what?

[Sir Asvald]

Why would memory upgrade bottleneck? What are you doing with your system? It's very old.. 

[NelizMastr]

8 minutes ago, ImInHugeTrouble said:

Hi I want to upgrade ram of my current system which only has 2x2gb 677mhz.

 

I want to upgrade to 4x4gb 1333mhz. Will this bottleneck?

Q9550

Asus P5q turbo

750 ti

enermax tomahawk 500watt

You can't upgrade to that memory. Your board supports DDR2, up to 8GB (4x2GB) and the memory you're referring to is DDR3. You'll need a new board, which is not worth it for this old of a system. Just get another 2x2 kit of DDR2 RAM and call it a day until you can upgrade to something more modern.

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

as you said, its 10 years ago, running ddr2, (new sys uses ddr4).....

if ram really bothers you, just get 1x 8gb for very cheap.

let it go and salvage the hdd, case& gpu only for new build

[ImInHugeTrouble]

Wait, does this only have 2 slots? 

 

I want to max it out. Where do I find 8Gb 1333 stick?

[NelizMastr]

18 minutes ago, dgsddfgdfhgs said:

as you said, its 10 years ago, running ddr2, (new sys uses ddr4).....

if ram really bothers you, just get 1x 8gb for very cheap.

This system doesn't support 8GB sticks. DDR2 only goes up to 4GB for desktop RAM, and those are super expensive.

 

6 minutes ago, ImInHugeTrouble said:

Wait, does this only have 2 slots? 

 

I want to max it out. Where do I find 8Gb 1333 stick?

You can't. Please read my post. You can't use DDR3 with that board, only DDR2. The best you can get is 4x4GB but that'll cost you at least $200 since 4GB DIMMs are rare. The best you can do on the cheap is buy 2 more DDR2-667 2GB DIMMs. 

[Mello]

You can get some super cheapo prebuilt refurbished dell optiplex on amazon, find one with an SSD if possible or add an SSD yourself for only around $25.

That might be a better and cheaper way to "upgrade"