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im looking into upgrading my laptop's ram from the current 1gb to 4gb. what factors do i need to look at in order to buy rams that would work?

this is the current ram in my laptop:
http://parts.digikey.com/1/parts/677608 ... -3s-b.html
it's a 1gb ram that comes in 2 sticks. so im planning on take both out and putting in 2 sticks of 2gb each (making a total of 4gb). what do i need to worry about other than the 200 pin connection?

Make sure your laptop can handle all that ram upgrade. I reccomend using http://www.crucial.com/ if you haven't, it's a very useful site. Are you sure your laptop use's DDR2 memory? lol just make sure thats what your laptop takes, also crucial tells you that too. Good luck

gonna need x64 OS to use all the ram

MiKe 51-50 wrote:gonna need x64 OS to use all the ram

well vista 32bit can use 4gb with some tweaks.

[SD]happynoobing wrote:

MiKe 51-50 wrote:gonna need x64 OS to use all the ram

well vista 32bit can use 4gb with some tweaks.

Can you explain this pls?
How to do it.

tjendc21 wrote:

[SD]happynoobing wrote:

MiKe 51-50 wrote:gonna need x64 OS to use all the ram

well vista 32bit can use 4gb with some tweaks.

Can you explain this pls?
How to do it.

hmm nvm, u need some PAE-compatible hardware.

so... is getting 4gb ram and only use 3.5gb better than getting 3gb in total better?

[SD]happynoobing wrote:

[SD]happynoobing wrote:

MiKe 51-50 wrote:gonna need x64 OS to use all the ram

well vista 32bit can use 4gb with some tweaks.

hmm nvm, u need some PAE-compatible hardware.

so... is getting 4gb ram and only use 3.5gb better than getting 3gb in total better?

when I had x32, I could see 3.5gb, but only really use like 3.2gb or so. I think vista is running a lot smoother after upgrading to x64. It uses 45% of the 4gb ram after booting. If you dont need the performance/memory space then 3gb should be fine.