Upgrading RAM Question

[TygGer]

I'm looking to add about 512mb of ram to my laptop and I won't be overclocking.

Which would see more of an improvement?

1. DDR400 w/ cas3

Or

2. DDR333 w/ cas2

Which would be better, faster mhz or latency?

 

[B Lo]

As a rule of thumb, AMD chips like lower latency and Intel chips favor a higher clock speed. What is your setup for the notebook?

 

[TygGer]

Its a Toshiba Laptop with a Intel Celeron M 1.4ghz and 256mb ram (which came with the laptop).

 

[Tostada]

All those Tecras come with DDR333. CL2 DDR333 is pretty hard to find; I'd guarantee your laptop comes with CL2.5 or CL3.

So, let's say your laptop has CL2.5 DDR333. Adding DDR400 memory is useless because it will run at DDR333. Adding CL2 memory is useless because it will run at CL2.5.

I don't think the chipset on those things is even capable of running the memory at DDR400.

 

[Megamixman]

Take out the 256MB sodimm. Put in 512mb DDR400 and run it as CL2 DDR.

 

[Tostada]

:roll:

It's certainly not worth it to lose 256MB of your memory just so you can run CL2.

 

[TygGer]

Here's a Kingmax 200-Pin 512MB DDR SO-DIMM PC-2700.

Kingmax


So you guys are saying that it would be better just to have 512mb at cas2 than 768mb with different a different latency?

I was also looking at this one:

Corsair

 

[Tostada]

One more time...

What I was saying is that it's all totally irrelevant. Do you have some sort of inside information that your laptop can actually use DDR400? Do you think you could tell the slightest difference in memory latancies?

You should probably get the Kingmax memory just because it's the cheapest decent thing. Read the comments and you'll see that you probably won't get CL2 memory.

If you seriously think you'll notice a difference, by all means scour the net and find some real CL2 memory and get rid of the 256MB you already have.

 

[TygGer]

I was responding right before you posted that. I'll go with the kingmax then... Thanks!