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    Inspiron 1526 memory upgrade..

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by typesh86, Apr 1, 2012.

  1. typesh86

    typesh86 Notebook Geek

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    I can't seem to get a good answer to this very easy question. I have a Dell Inspiron 1526 running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. I want to do a memory upgrade and I've been hearing that I can run up to 8gb of ram. Is this correct? Please and thank you
     
    typesh86, Apr 1, 2012
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    Officially, the maximum is 4GB, but considering that the 1520 could take at least 6GB (though it seems a lot fewer, if any, have gotten 8GB to work in Inspiron 1x20 series), I'd imagine something similar for 1525/1526. Then again, the 1526 is AMD, so you never know...
     
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  3. typesh86

    typesh86 Notebook Geek

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    What does being AMD matter? Sorry, I'm kinda new to all this.
     
    typesh86, Apr 2, 2012
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  4. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    What he means is the AMD specsheets didn't tell us anything different and if it could support 6/8 GB. The reason being is 4 GB sticks of DDR2 didn't come out til 2008 at least, way after that AMD chipset and 965 Intel chipset came out.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Apr 3, 2012
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  5. typesh86

    typesh86 Notebook Geek

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    Oh okay. I understand. Well I guess there's only one way to find out. I'll let you guys know if works out or not.
     
    typesh86, Apr 3, 2012
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