What ho one and all,

I currently have a Dell 9200 running XP Pro with 2.40 gigahertz Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 and 3gb of RAM. Old, yes, but it still works.

Just bumped into a video showing how to upgrade to 8gb (although apparently, XP will only use 3gb) and the final caption was, that he plans to upgrade to W7, 64 bit.

My hardware will handle 64 bit but I have never tried with XP as with little RAM, does not seem to be worth the effort.

But would increasing the RAM to 8gb allow me to install 64 bit W7 and have a generally faster and may be more stable computer?

Or is a Dell 9200 Dimension to old to bother upgrading. I can't 't really afford a major upgrade because it would involve a new computer, OS and too many programs and XP is doing fine. But it is slow with Photoshop and more RAM would help.

Grateful for any comments

Thanks and toodle pip