Hynix DDR2 SODIMM

[Nirach]

Okay, I'm planning to buy an Alienware Area-51 M5550.

A friend of mine has 1gb (Matched 512's) of Hynix RAM that is identical spec wise to the stuff that Alienware 'recommends'. I was wondering if anyone's had any experiance with Hynix before now?

The fact that it was in a MacBook makes me lean towards it possibly being suitable, but I've not been able to find a great deal of anything but purchase links from google, might be searching for the wrong thing though..

Any pointers/experiance?

Cheers.

 

[fbrdphreak]

As long as it works, it doesn't matter. Latency on RAM is pretty much all the same. No overclocking in a notebook. Unless he's giving you a hell of a deal, I'd get a single 1GB stick so you can upgrade to 2GB later.

 

[Nirach]

I did look at getting a single gb stick, something like £90 shipped for some Corsair stuff.

I can get the matched 512's off him for £60, or there abouts.

I was thinking, save some money by buying the RAM off him, and spend the saved cash on a processor upgrade.

 

[Foghorn]

Dell uses Hynix. I had it in my M1210 before I upgraded, worked fine.

 

[cheesehead]

Hynix is good stuff. However, I would forget about Alienware. ABS computers ("always better service") have a very high resellerratings score, and I do know that several of their laptops use the MXM slots for upgradable graphics cards.