I just bought a new computer (thinkpad R61) with 512 megs of ram, planning to upgrade it later with much cheaper ram on newegg.com.
Now, I was originally just going to buy a single 2 gig stick of ram for it and stick that in along with my 512 chip for more ram then I can count, but I'm not sure if thats such a good idea anymore.
Would it be better if I [A] sold the 512 for whatever I can get at the local store, and stick in 2 identical 1gb chips, just buy a 1 gig chip and stick it in for a total of 1.5gb, or is my origoinal thought the best way to go?
I'm going to be using my lappy for gaming as much as anything, and so memory bandwidth is important to me.
Also, when looking around for 1gb chips I found a lot of chips that had various CAS latencies and I'm not 100% sure what that really means, but I gather that it's important that they be the same for all the memory I have, no?
Also also, do timings have anything to do with the speed at which the ram operates, or is it just best to get whatever is cheapest and from a known brand (top contenders are simpletech and trancent, or gskill but thats a bit more $$)?
Now, I was originally just going to buy a single 2 gig stick of ram for it and stick that in along with my 512 chip for more ram then I can count, but I'm not sure if thats such a good idea anymore.
Would it be better if I [A] sold the 512 for whatever I can get at the local store, and stick in 2 identical 1gb chips, just buy a 1 gig chip and stick it in for a total of 1.5gb, or is my origoinal thought the best way to go?
I'm going to be using my lappy for gaming as much as anything, and so memory bandwidth is important to me.
Also, when looking around for 1gb chips I found a lot of chips that had various CAS latencies and I'm not 100% sure what that really means, but I gather that it's important that they be the same for all the memory I have, no?
Also also, do timings have anything to do with the speed at which the ram operates, or is it just best to get whatever is cheapest and from a known brand (top contenders are simpletech and trancent, or gskill but thats a bit more $$)?