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    Will my 2GB Ram work in the XPS M1530?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by mtv2004, Dec 16, 2007.

  1. mtv2004

    mtv2004 Notebook Evangelist

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    As I was putting together the configuration of the system I see the same DDR2 SDRAM 667Mhz, but I heard this notebook is DDR3......so is my 1520 ram going to work? I'm confused
     
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    Your ram will work, only video ram is gddr3; the m1530 is still using ddr2 ram.
     
    CeeNote, Dec 16, 2007
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    oh cool.....this just made my decision easy then :)
     
    mtv2004, Dec 16, 2007
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  4. sly

    sly m1530 owner!!!

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    all notebooks use ddr2 ram
     
    sly, Dec 16, 2007
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