Can anyone tell me what's the top brand of memory to buy or direct me to another post

I'm thinking of upgrading my laptop memory. I have a Inspirion 9000. Can anyone tell me what is a good brand of memory to buy that wont corrupt anything. I am upgrading to 2GB. I want the top of the line money isn't a concern.

 

I would go to www.newegg.com .
I would stick to Corsair and Kingston...I know those are good. You will pay more for them, but they the best I have seen so far. Newegg will save you some money over buying it in a store.

 

I wouldn't go with top brand then...cause even high end brands can have compatibility issues with specific laptops.

You need to search for your exact laptop on google or this site's Dell section and see what exact chips other owners have had success with.

The odds of it "corrupting your data" is slim to none...most likely if there's an issue it'll either not work(errors on boot or not boot) or cause lots of exception errors/memory read errors(resulting in lockups...but data corruption is highly unlikely).

There's no correlation between cheaper chips having more issues than more expensive chips. With desktops, buying name brand can be beneficial cause often those chips are able to be overclocked more...but since most people don't do that on laptops(cause most laptops won't let you), then it doesn't matter.

It's all about that particular unit's compatibility. I bought the 2nd cheapest newegg.com offered for my system because I'd seen several posts by other owners that they had used that specific memory with success on the same system.

 

THanks for the input. I didnt think anyone was going to reply, seeming how...well one would imagine that so many ask the same questions. I have a
Inspirion 9300
Intel® Pentium® M Processor 760 (2 GHz/2MB Cache/533MHz FSB)
Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005
17 inch Wide Screen XGA+ Display
1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz 2 Dimm
80GB 5400rpmHard Drive
8x CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability
Intel® PRO 2915 and Dell 350 Bluetooth Internal Wireless Cards
ATI MOBILITY™ RADEON® X300 64MB HyperMemory
6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery (53 WHr)

THeres a few things I want to upgrade
Harddrive
1GB to 2x1GB
Video card
and
6 cell to 9 cell battery

Last thing is Crucial a good brand to buy?
So far from reading peoples threads I have been seeing
Crucial
Corsair
and Kingston as good brands

Is OZC and PNY good brands as well?

 

Newegg gives reviews, you should check out the site.

 

You already have 1GB of ram, using BOTH ram slots. In order to upgrade to 2GB you need to ditch ALL the ram you have now and to replace it with twi 1GB sticks.

Since that is the case.... theres no reason to buy 101% compadible ram. Just buy the correct ram and the cheapest kind of newegg.

 

With the I9300 the Transcend is good, it has received great reviews and is resonably priced. Here is the link:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820208312

 

www.crucial.com
sometimes cheaper than newegg, sometimes not, but crucial is THE ram to buy, imo.

 

You already have 1GB of ram, using BOTH ram slots. In order to upgrade to 2GB you need to ditch ALL the ram you have now and to replace it with twi 1GB sticks.


This what i planned to do. I'm not too familiar on how the RAM and its components work. THank you all for the info., you've been a great help.

 

How so? There are plenty of other brand names out there that are just as reliable.

Hatss...search the Dell forum for specific memory recommendations. Find a specific type that a few can recommend works and buy the cheapest one. Spending money is fine, but wasting it is ridiculous. If people say a particular one works, then that's fine.

As for the poster who said to just get some that's compatible....it'll probably work, but if you want to be sure, search the Dell forum of this site for confirmed working RAM modules.

That's your best bet.

 

THanks Tullnd. I did that last night and found some brands and I'm going to see where I can get them the cheapest. I think thats how you spell it. WEll thanks again for all of your help. I also have a desktop at home and was wondering if anyone knew any good forums for DESKTOPS?

 

www.hardforum.com
www.forums.anandtech.com

 

I've always liked Crucial because they ship quickly and respond quickly to any questions or problems.

As far as I know, almost all RAM comes from only a handful of factories and like disc media and batteries, the same brand doesn't always source from the same factories. We could argue about which company has the best quality standards or procedures that prevent problems and we could imagine that some companies who boast a higher line may do some additional weeding out, but for the most part... RAM is RAM and you're better off paying attention to the service, support and cost. ... Just my opinion and all that.

 

I like Crucial better. But Corsair was cheaper in this case, so I got Corsair.

For my desktop Crucial was cheaper so I went with them.