I'm trying to add some memory to my Acer Travelmate 2350 series Laptop, and I wondered whether anyone knew of a particular RAM board thingy which will be compatible with such a Laptop. I've seen alot of good deals, but having seen the slot to stick the RAM in, i'm really not sure which would be the best to go with. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!Travel to Crucial.com and enter your system info and/or run the online scanner and it will tell you not only what type of RAM to buy but how much that machine will take...
You don't have to get it there but you will be an educated consumer...Sorry for the lengthy, Lengthy delay in my response, but thanks, it's a good website and I shall be using it. I'm in a bit of a conundrum right now, though. My Sister purchased this game, and WANTS to use it on the PC. The RAM bit can be sorted out by the aforementioned website.

The problem now is the graphics card. The label on my PC says it's using

Integrated SiS 661 FX AGP graphics,

The game minimum requirements says it needs 64mb DirectX 9 compatible video card. How could I check that those minimum specifications are met by my PC, and what could I do (Or which graphic card could I get ) that's cheap and effective to bring my PC up to those specifications?Mostly you cannot change the graphics on a laptop without spending a ton of cash even if in fact it can be done...
Laptops = Nice, convenient....but not neccessarily for gaming.

Have her start shopping for a Desktop gaming machine instead and save her the bread...Aha, but that's the good thing, we have a desktop PC! Thats what I was talking about before Sorry, I forgot that i went from talking about the laptop to the Desktop. PC an Game info needed. Beep Beep Processing......Tis that Desperate Housewives game. Minimum System Requirements say:

Microsoft Windows XP, Pentium IV Class processor 1.4GHz
256 MB RAM, 2.5 GB free hard disk space, 8x speed CD-ROM drive
16-bit DirectX9 compatible SOUND card
64MBDirectX9 compatible video card, 32 bit color

Then for the PC,

Intel Celeron D 336 (2.80 GHz)
256 MB DDR Memory
40GB Hard Drive
16x DVDRW dual format
Integrated SiS 661 fx agp graphics
6 USB ports (Probably not necessary info)
Microsoft Windows XP

Any help deciphering that would be appreciated! Thanks.

You'll be able to play the game but not well.
A dedicated graphics card would really help, as well as at least 512Mb, preferably more, RAM. If you got more RAM it would certainly help overall performance, but DDR is getting more expensive now.Thats not a good thing to hear, any way I was going to recomend that you get a card since on board isnt so good. My suggestions:
1. 8500GT graphics card. Even the 256mb version would be enough (which I have) but 512mb version obviously better. It's cheap and it can run a lot of games at high settings fine, given you don't care too much about it being low resolution.

2. A bit more memory, which previous posters have already been suggesting. 256mb is minimum for the game but a little more can't hurt. A little more memory to feed the background system programs and the entire 256mb for the game itself.

Aha, some top advice there thanks. I didn't know Graphics cards could be that cheap. All I ever see are those + £100 Nvidia ones. I shall take a closer look.

How difficult is it to install a Graphics Card? I've installed a Dial-Up Modem in one of the slots in my CPU before, so I have a rough knowledge of what's down there (As well as having studied Computing), but a card would be somewhat different. Similarly, how simple is it to control the relevant software for such cards? I had a huge nightmare with SiS a while ago and drivers, and being the organised person I am, I hate to see a cluttered number of software packages all being used at once. I'm the type that prefers one program as a solution rather than numerous. I presume such Graphics cards come with one driver, or software item and that's that?

mcxeb - The Graphics card you recommended seems pretty good quality for the price! Is this the type of thing you'd be thinking of - http://www.oyyy.co.uk/product.php?xProd=38169 ?

Similarly, am I right in saying that generally, these cards will work on any Motherboard?

Thanks chaps. One of the most infuriating things about my PC is the lack of gameplaying ability. Even on simple games like Championship Manager 01/02 - I have to sit waiting for, sometimes, up to an hour for the season changeover loading. The only game I've ever had any luck getting to work is Rally Championship But thanks!to use the nvidia 8500gt graphics card, you need a motherboard with a PCI-E slot (which I believe any recent motherboards should include)

INSTALLING graphics card is easy! Just install the graphics card into the PCI-E slot and then boot up computer and go to NVidia's website to get the latest graphics card drivers. And if the card isn't detected right away by computer, then you'll just change settings in the BIOS but I didn't have to.

Yes, the website shows the exact graphics card that I have (although mine is the 256mb version and not the 512mb version but it works well ANYWAYS).

If you are not playing Crysis or any of the similar games, then the NVidia 8500GT will serve you enough. I played Age of Empires III, Command and Conquer 3, and Battlefield 2 and all are good a high settings but at lower resolution but graphics still look good enough anyway!The resolution business doesn't bother me a huge deal. I'm not a big PC gamer, I prefer my Nintendo to be fair, but there are alot of games avaliable for PC which you'd have to bite your arm off to get on a console, especially like Nintendo! Thanks. I may come back here with some ones I'm looking at on Play.com - they must have stacked their shelves pretty heftily since their website re-design, 10 or 11 pages worth of Graphics Cards. I'd really appreciate if someone can tell me which I should definately stay away from! Being a student, cost is everything, so i'll try for even cheaper if I can.

Also, secondary question, i'm using Cruical to try and find the right type of RAM to get, could I ask - how would I find out exactely what type of Motherboard i'm using? The Cruical Scanner doesn't seem to be able to tell be the manufacturer, although I'm presuming it's just Intel? My CPU is an ESystems, which I think tends to be a bizarre company anyway, just throwing bits of other manufacturers together.There not these old things its usually one peice of software that you install. YOu have to turn off the on board probably. Know there plug an play so it will set it to use the card instead of having to manually do it. No however I cant say in this case but however there are agp,pci,pci express, ect. So each video card is differnt cause of how tech is. If it is a pci it will but other then that if it dont have that connector it wont work. Depends how much ram an the cpu speed is an the graphics card an anything else on the drive. This will cause it. Theres a program called everst that should bring it up. Gliff, your CPU is made by Intel. The computer is made by ESystems.
It's very easy to install a graphics card, basically plug it in, turn the PC on, install the drivers.
Can you give us a model number from your PC sow e can tell you what motherboard you have?
Alternatively, download Everest Home which can give you system information. Find out what motherboard you have using that program if you like.
If cost is everything to you then I guess an 8500GT might do OK, but if you can stretch a little furhter you can get a lot more for your money, the 8500GT is a pretty poor card. The 2600XT, for ~£20 more, is literally around twice as fast.