Upgrading Box with ddr2

[TechBoyJK]

A friend of mine has a Dell Inspiron 530c, which uses DDR2-800

It has 2 slots, and supports a max of 8GB of ram.

He currently has 2 1GB ddr2667 chips. He's wanting to go to 2 4GB chips.

Looking at newegg, DDR2-800 is about $70 per 4GB chip. Newer memory is a lot cheaper.

I was going to suggest buying newer memory, if compatible, even if his current MB doesn't support the full speed, etc. but it looks like DDR800 is the max it will handle. At $150 to use 8GB of ram, I'm almost thinking it'd be better to buy a newer MB that would use his CPU and support more memory. Or is this CPU going to be locked into DDR2 memory?

Thoughts?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...=DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)&Order=PRICE&Pagesize=100

 

[greenhawk]

As long as it is DDR2 it should work.

If by newer you mean DDR3, then it will not fit.

As to a new motherboard, most brand name units are designed for a case, so no option to swap them out with something newer.

 

[GoStumpy]

DDR2 is stupid expensive... I'm lucky that I have 4 slots for 1GB for 4GB total... If I ever wanted more than 4GB of ram, I'd upgrade the platform...

Sucks, but seriously, for the price of 8GB of ram, add another $50 and you can have a complete new mobo/pro/ram setup...

Hard to spend that kind of money on Ramz!

 

[greenhawk]

I have 4 slots in my board and upgrades to 8GB of DDR2 a year back. About $100 for the 4 sticks of 2GB.

edit: just checked, local price for the cheapest to do that again is about $130 now.

 

[zephyrprime]

An Inspiron is a LAPTOP. There is not new motherboard you could buy for it.

The best thing to do would be to buy a new laptop and sell the existing laptop.