Ram for Dell M1330

[Leros]

It seems my M1330 supports both PC2-5300 and PC2-6400, however there is a significant price difference ($38 vs $60 for a 2GB module).

The Dell upgrade center (which has horrible prices) only offers the PC2-5300.

Should I spend the extra money and get the faster RAM or will I not see a performance difference?

 

[valo123]

It won't be dramatic and you'll probably only notice it if you're gaming. If you do game get the pc26400 but not from dell. Purchase it from newegg.

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: valo123
It won't be dramatic and you'll probably only notice it if you're gaming. If you do game get the pc26400 but not from dell. Purchase it from newegg.

I have no intentions of gaming, just basic web browsing, some occasional programming. Nothing to heavy, but I do to have run Vista smoothly.

The $38 (PC2-5300) vs $60 (PC2-6400) is newegg prices.

Dell wants $150 for PC2-5300 :Q

 

[valo123]

Leave it to Dell to rape their customers of every last cent...if you're not gaming i'd say just go with the 5300, vista takes up about 512mb so you should still be fine with 2g. btw, if your OS isn't 64bit i'd suggest getting 2x1gig modules unless you're planning on upgrading your OS to 64bit before you upgrade you're ram again.

 

[Leros]

Its not a big price difference to get 1x2GB vs 2x1GB and it leaves me future expandability for down the road.

 

[Leros]

Looks like the FSB of the CPU is 800mhz, so I'm gonna go with the PC2-6400.