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    What Kind of RAM Will I Need?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Quieas, May 22, 2011.

  1. Quieas

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    Quieas, May 22, 2011
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    Depends on what you do with your laptop. 2 GB is enough for normal usage. If you multi-task alot or run alot of stuff then the more RAM will be beneficial to you.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, May 22, 2011
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    Hi Tsunade and thank you for answering my post! :)

    I'll be using the laptop for college. So it'll be running Microsoft Office as well as a ton of Firefox tabs for research etc. I'm also going to be using it for viewing videos. Other than that, just the standard email and surfing.
     
    Quieas, May 22, 2011
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    If you do need more ram it will be 1066mhz PC8500 DDR3 SODIMM
     
    Meaker@Sager, May 22, 2011
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    Or faster RAM will work too, i.e. 1333MHz will just run at 1066MHz speeds. Won't work the other way around (usually).
     
    HTWingNut, May 22, 2011
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    Correct, I'm currently running 1600 MHz and 1333 MHz RAM together.
     
    fred2028, May 22, 2011
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    Likely to be more expensive and may run at looser timings however.
     
    Meaker@Sager, May 23, 2011
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    buy a 2GB X 2 kit for 4GB of DDR3 1066mhz (or 1333mhz), with ram being so cheap you might as well upgrade to 4gb. 1066mhz is the minimum, but you can use 1333mhz, it'll just run at 1066mhz.
    Although first I would open the ram access panel and see if both slots are full, if only one slot is used, then buy a 2GB DDR3 1066mhz stick of ram.
     
    GP-SE, May 23, 2011
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    Or just run CPU-Z and it will tell you which slots are occupied and what types of memory.
     
    HTWingNut, May 23, 2011
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