Laptop Ram upgrade question

[andrei3333]

Ok so my girl screwed up her windows and i have to reinstall it for her, i was looking and she has like 512MB ram, its a 1.8GHz intel singlecore laptop

so i want to make the easy and cheap upgrade to 2GB ram for her, but which speed should i buy ? i know i can probly read what it says on the original ram sticks she has in there now,

but the question is how can i find out if her laptop can support faster ram than the one that came with it ?


(like my desktop can support 800MHz ram and 1066 MHz but i duno about laptops)


thanks

 

[andrei3333]

anyone can provide a clue ?

 

[heymrdj]

Use CPU-Z and tell us what the manufacturer and what edition it says the CPU is in CPU-Z (like my laptop is a Santa Rosa).

 

[andrei3333]

ok im just reinstalling windows now, the toshiba website says it uses DDR2 but does not say 533, 667, or whatever speed the ram is supported

here - this is what the CPU is as from the toshiba web site "Intel® Celeron M processor 410 (1.46GHz, 533MHz FSB, L1 Cache 32KB/32KB, L2 Cache 1MB)"

 

[starfireone]

You will be fine with memory speed of 533, since your FSB is at 533.

 

[andrei3333]

but since upgrading i was wondering if the laptop would recognize faster ram like 667 and up, so how can i find out if it will work ?

 

[Cheex]

In daily use, you wouldn't be able to recognize 533 from 667 so just buy whichever one you can get for a better deal. :beer:

In a system like that, coming from 512MB, the speed of the RAM is irrelevant. The quantity is what is important and that is what will actually make a difference to the performance of the machine.

:thumbsup:

 

[andrei3333]

thanks guys, i finished installing everything last night, there were so many updates from toshiba that were never done, like for the bios, battery, DVD-RW, and more --- and it feels soo much faster, cant wait to get more ram for her....
thanks guys im just gona put in the same kind of ram thats in there now, so i have to pull that chip out