- upgrading ram
- Posted by rune haarberg on October 14th, 2005
i have an hp pavillion t460.
now i want to upgrade the ram. what kinda memory should i buy? i it best
with 2x512, or just 1x1024+1x254 or what?
- Posted by kony on October 14th, 2005
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:57:16 GMT, "rune haarberg"
<rune.haarberg@chello.no> wrote:
more detail necessary about system, cpu, memory, etc.
- Posted by rune haarberg on October 14th, 2005
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Motherboard Description
a.. Manufacturer's name - ASUS P4SD-LA
a.. HP/Compaq name - Stingray
Motherboard Supplier
ASUS
System BIOS Supplier
ASUS/Award
Board Form Factor
uATX
Processor Brand
Intel
Processor Socket Type
mPGA478
Processor Family
Pentium 4HT
Maximum Processor Core Frequency
Up to 3.2 GHz P4 Northwood
Processor Front Side Bus
800/533/400 MHz
Hyper Threading Support
Yes
Processor VRM Specification
Northwood FMB2
Chipset 'North Bridge'
865G
Chipset 'South Bridge'
ICH5
Super I/O
SMsC LPC47M192-NC
Flash BIOS Device Type and Density
FWH 4 Mbit
Memory Type
DDR SDRAM (Supports duel channel)
Memory Speed
PC3200 (400 MHz),
PC2700 (333 MHz),
PC2100 (266 MHz)
Memory Sockets
Four DDR DIMM (184-pin)
Single or Dual Channel
Dual System Memory
- Posted by Mike Walsh on October 14th, 2005
2 x 512 MB could be faster if your motherboard supports dual channel memory. I don't know how much of an improvement this is would be. I have not seen any difference with it enabled, apparently because it does not work properly with the motherboards I have tried.
A motherboard usually will not recognize the full capacity of higher density chips that are released several years after the motherboard. If you use a 1 GB DIMM you might have to use one with 8 chips (instead of 4).
All other things being equal I would rather have 2 DIMMs than 1, so that if a chip fails I would still have some working memory.
rune haarberg wrote:
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Mike Walsh
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.
- Posted by kony on October 14th, 2005
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:33:44 GMT, "rune haarberg"
<rune.haarberg@chello.no> wrote:
No, not some kind of huge auto-generated list, the concise
specifics of your specific system.
Specific CPU make, model, and FSB Speed.
Motherboard make, model and chipset
Memory- # of slots on the board,
# of slots filled
CONCISE details of each module in each slot
Size, Speed rating
- Posted by digisol on October 16th, 2005
Whatever is in it, double it, now that's the simple fix but there are
many types and speed of memory available.
Usually the adding of faster memory allows the use of faster ram
settings with no fuss, IE if the board takes 2700 DDR put good 3200
DDR in it.
Memory is cheap ATM so go for it.
