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March 30th, @06:22PM
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Re: Selecting laptop RAM ...speed & quality differences?
Thanks. (I don't plan on overclocking...just trying to get well-matched components that work at their best under normal settings.)
One question. Does the 800 FSB of the processor have anything to do with whether it would take RAM with a clock speed of 800 vs 667? |
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sekim
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| Is it a 32 bit Vista laptop ? That Microsoft says no matter what you do its only going to use around 3.12gb of the installed ram?
If it comes with 2gb ram, most likely that's going to be two 1gb modules. I think if you try to match the brand and just swap one out for a 2gb module for 3g total installed. You'll be happy and save a buck or two too.
I probably have the same chip-set - mobile 965 express and 3gb ddr2/667 thats reports half that speed at 4clocks.
Using one corsair 1gb and one Kingston 2gb and boot reports Dual Channel L-Shaped Mode and SiW and others show it is still running symmetrical. |
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koam
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clubs: | In the OP you'll find the model, the CPU, and that it's shipped with Vista 64-bit installed. I'm getting 4GB because it's a high-end Core 2 Duo and it can easily handle 64-bit. thanks |
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PeteC2
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| said by koam  :In the OP you'll find the model, the CPU, and that it's shipped with Vista 64-bit installed. I'm getting 4GB because it's a high-end Core 2 Duo and it can easily handle 64-bit. thanks Although Vista 64 bit is as of yet not that big an advantage, as time goes by, it will become a 64bit computing world...nothing wrong with going Vista 64 now.
Koam, I am not sure about the FSB versus memory speed. As I mentioned though, the thing is that you might as well just go by whatever speed memory that is installed, because that is what the system is set up for. Unlike many desktop bios, it is pretty unlikely that you have any user-adjustable memory speed/performance settings in the notebook's bios
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