Upgrading Laptop memory help.

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Hello

Just wondering if some one can help me, i have a toshiba satalite pro U200 and it has a intel duel core 2400, 1gig memory and 80 gig harddrive.

I opened it up and the two 512mb memory sticks have "512MB 2rx16 pc2 4200s 444-12-a3" written on them. i was wondering which kind of memory i needed to buy for an upgrade? i was thinking of putting 4 gig in and upgrading to Vista.

Thanks for any help!

Sam
 
You'll need 4gb of ddr2 pc4200 SODIMMS then. However you'll have to check what the maximum capacity of the motherboard of that laptop is as it may only take 2gb.

In either case, you'll be looking at this stuff: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-146-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=936

Or you could check and see if it'll take pc5300 aswell as their seems to be a lot more of that in stock O_o


Just ask where you bought it from (purple shirted world per chance?)
 
You need either DDR2 PC2-4200 or PC2-5300 SO-DIMM memory. Add in matched pairs for the best performance.

Stick 4Gb in and you'll get 3.5Gb at the absolute maximum unless you stick 64-bit vista on (assuming you have a Core2 CPU).
 
Max RAM = 4Gb.
You can use either DDR2 PC2-4200 or DDR2 PC2-5300 (they cost much the same - should be less than £65 in total).
As has been said, if you stick with a 32bit OS, you will not be able to access more than somewhere between 3Gb & 3½Gb.
Whatever you choose to do, I would really advise you to steer clear of 64bit Vista.

Personally, I would still go for 4Gb :)
 
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