Laptop Memory

[leegroves86]

I am prolly going to buy a Compaq R4000 laptop with the following specs

Athlon 3200+
15.4'' Widescreen (1280X800)
128mb Radeo Xprees 200
60GB 5400RPM HDD
integrated b/g wireless
12cell battery
8X DVD
plus
256 ram

I have the option of upping ram to 512 for $50.00 extra dollars OR 1GB for $150.00 from Compaq of course

So my questions are:

What type of ram does it take?
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I wanted to up the memory my but I have no idea what type of ram it takes (so dimm, micro dimm etc.)


What brand of ram should I get?
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I see 1g of KINGMAX on newegg with 200+ reviews (everything else 10 reviews or less) for $110 Shipped

P.S. Does anyone have any other suggestions for an Athlon based Desktop Replacement Laptop?

 

[CrimsonCutie]

Hi
For memory recommendations... usually the best thing you can do is goto http://www.crucial.com/ got thru their system selector and it will tell you the type of memory your computer uses. For your particular machine, a Compaq R4000 Crucial recommends this 200-pin SODIMM DDR PC2700 module guaranteed to be compatible with your system and deliver the performance you need. You can goto the URL below to verify this... or the main site and then go thru the system selector.

http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.asp?model=Presario+R4000+Series&tabid=AM

hope this helps
jaysin

 

[nwo]

it should most likely take so dimm since I don't know of any laptops that take any other kind of RAM (except those that take ddr2 RAM which are intel only).

Anyway, I would go ahead with the kingmax 1g, I've bought 512MB for my sister's laptop a few months ago, paid 80 bucks for it :| now i see it's 50 bucks.

oh and btw, since you have 256mb right now, just take that out and put a gig of PC3200 in there

 

[DaveSimmons]

With crucial.com if you use their memory selector they guarantee it will work. If their price is higher than the kingmax, you can at least make sure the kingmax is (hopefully) the right kind by comparing the specs to Crucial.

 

[leegroves86]

How do I know whether the laptop will only run the memory at 2700 or 3200? is there anyway of knowing? If i leave the stock 256 (pc2700) and put a 1gb stick of pc 3200 it will run at 2700 right?

and will I notice the difference between 2700 and 3200?