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    E1505 Memory Upgrade (advice)

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by aznDANNYazn, Mar 3, 2008.

  1. aznDANNYazn

    aznDANNYazn Notebook Consultant

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    Hows it goin fellas. I have not been on here as much as I used to since building my desktop. I have never tweaked a laptop before (since this is my first one), as the title says I own an E1505, and i bought it with 2x1GB Samsung PC2 5300S sticks.

    I am wanting to upgrade the memory (hoping for a boost of performance) to G.Skill ( http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16820231116 ). Both are PC2 5300, but will that make a difference at all? I was also thinking about going with PC2 6400.

    Experts please chime in and help me out. BTW money is not an issue since the ram I am seeing tend to be under 75 dollars easily. Thanks again :)
     
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    ScifiMike12 Drinking the good stuff

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    So does your Dell already have 2GB of memory installed or are you planning on installing 2GB (2x1GB)?
     
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  3. aznDANNYazn

    aznDANNYazn Notebook Consultant

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    yea it already has 2GB, I am just replacing them with G.Skill, Kingston or Geil set. Is it worth it?
     
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    nizzy1115 Notebook Prophet

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    No, i would say not to. Only change the ram if you are upgrading to 3 or 4gb

    Your laptop will down clock the higher speed ram anyways.
     
    nizzy1115, Mar 4, 2008
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  5. aznDANNYazn

    aznDANNYazn Notebook Consultant

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    that was my next question...should i just get 2x2GB sticks? will i need to upgrade to a 64bit vista? sorry for being dumb about laptops lol
     
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    ScifiMike12 Drinking the good stuff

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    There are no dumb questions, only questions not asked.

    I would definitely upgrade to 4GB but you will never be able to see all 4 gigs. The reason behind it is your chipset, 945 I believe. It can address up to 4GB, but not all.

    Didn't bother me with my E1705. I was fine with ~3.4GB in XP and around ~3.3GB in Vista. :)
     
    ScifiMike12, Mar 4, 2008
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