Okay my dilemma: my laptop has Vista, and I only have 1 gb of ram. not enough

Possible solutions
A. Upgrade ram
B. Wait it out until my bro leaves and I get his (in about a year)

I also have Inabilitytodecide syndrome. Help?

RAM is cheap. If you can tell me what kind you need I'll find you a good deal on newegg.

Everyone that I know who's upgraded their ram reports their computer ends up actually being slower.

Let me personally report that when I quadrupled the RAM in my old Dimension 4300 (256MB to 1GB), it made a HUGE difference.

There, now you can't say that anymore

I would definitely get more RAM, as Excalibur said, RAM is cheap.

I doubt your friends paid attention to CAS Latency and frequency.

Definitely get more RAM. I got like 2gb of RAM for my current computer for like $40.

DDR2 according to SIW

CPUz is better


Everyone you know must have started downloading all sorts of crap when they got their new RAM, because when I upgraded mine, I noticed an immediate difference, especially at startup, as it took half the time to load all my programs that it was taking prior to my upgrade.

I need to know the MHz as well. If you have DDR2 667 and I recommend DDR2 533, that wouldn't exactly help. And if you could get the timings (#-#-#-##) that'd be nice too but not needed.

Wow thats some slow MHz RAM. If your laptop can run it, because I've yet to see RAM with that slow of a speed, try this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134007 or for 2GB: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231146

This is just a guess but I don't think he has 200 pin ddr2 ram. I think that laptop uses ddr ram.

I meant logically. For ddr2 to be that slow it would have to be below DDR2-400 standards which would have to be a DDR-333 maybe? (or maybe he doesn't have it dual channeled properly or maybe something is damaged) I just don't know anymore that memory summary looks so wierd

I agree it looks very weird, I was just going on what info I had.

I'll take more detailed info, standby for patching

There is the full page.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Sep 18 2008, 11:54 pm by omginbd.

RAM's not that cheaper for laptops :C or else HP is trying to scam me
but YES GET MORE RAM. I am a Vista user and I have 1GB of RAM right now and it runs perfectly fine for me. Takes like less than 1 minute to fully start it's not slow or anything.

That helped a lot omginbd. It looks like the RAM I suggested is going to work out for you.

@Corbo RAM is dirt cheap, laptop or desktop. Perhaps laptop is a little more expensive.

Computer manufactures charge more because they make more profit. Think of it this way.

Kingston makes 1GB of RAM and it costs them $20. They sell it HP for $25. HP sells it to you for $30. Maybe with higher prices, but you get the idea.

More like Kingston makes a gig of RAM for about $6, sells it to HP for $15, and HP sells it for $45

Businesses like to make profit.