Quick Question

[rifle]

My sister has this pc. heres the link for pc specs.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00069442&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&product=447312

She only has 256mb of ram.

So will this work?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145086

I'm pretty sure it would. I just wanna double check =]


thx

 

[Remeniz]

Yea that will work.

Try and get this memory though.

It's still 1GB just divided into 2 sticks, so you'll get Dual Channel mode, and these run at 400MHz PC3200 instead of 333MHz PC2700.

Just don't use your old RAM with the 400MHz RAM I mentioned cause it'll slow the new RAM down to PC2700 333MHz.

 

[rifle]

Thanks for the help! =]

 

[Remeniz]

Anytime rifle.

 

[Atomic Rooster]

You can save yourself a few dollars and get these: pqi POWER Series 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200)
pqi is a good memory manufacturer and I've used their products in the past with no problems.

 

[91shelby]

well it says the board only supports up to pc2700,

 

[Atomic Rooster]

PC3200 is backwards compatible and will run at PC2700 speeds quite happily.

It's cheaper too.

Here's another thing I was looking at. If you look at the specs of the motherboard it says this:

Front Side Bus (FSB) - 400 / 333 / 266 MHz

PC3200 memory runs on a 400MHz FSB. So I'm thinking that if you use that memory, you can safely run it at it's rated speed.

 

[Remeniz]

Quite right.

The motherboard does support 400MHz RAM.

If I stuck to manufactures specs I would only be running PC3200 RAM.

As it turns out I run PC4000 RAM to give me the room to OC my set up.