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    help! Upgrading Ram for a Pentium III laptop!

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Mr.Happy, Nov 8, 2005.

  1. Mr.Happy

    Mr.Happy Notebook Guru

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    I have an older dell latitude laptop that is a pentium III 1000 mhz, and want to upgrade the ram. It has a stick of 128. What type of ram should I use? Is it pc133? DDR? Your help would greatly be appreciated! THANKS
     
    Mr.Happy, Nov 8, 2005
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  2. qwester

    qwester Notebook Virtuoso

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    So-dimm SDRAM PC133. If your laptop is 100MHz FSB, the PC133 modules will clock down to 100.

    I am not sure if it will take more than 256MB modules, but I might be wrong. check dell's site.
     
    qwester, Nov 8, 2005
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  3. Charles P. Jefferies

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    Yeah, make sure you check what the maximum amount of memory you can have installed is before you buy...

    You can check the speed of the RAM you currently have installed - download CPU-Z, and check what the RAM is running at (MHz).
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Nov 8, 2005
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  4. Justitia

    Justitia Notebook Evangelist

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    I just logged on to ask a related question for my IBM Pentium III. If you go to this site: http://www.crucial.com/promo/index.asp?prog=desktop2&cpe=AFC-2D4S68503543

    the site will scan your computer and tell you what you can upgrade to and exactly what and what kind of memory you already have on there, how many slots, etc. Of course as it is a Crucial Memory site, they want to sell you their product.
     
    Justitia, Nov 12, 2005
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  5. ZaZ

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    You might want to upgrade the hard drive as well. You get a bigger boost there.
     
    ZaZ, Nov 13, 2005
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  6. Slappy

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    If he's only got 128 megs of RAM, an upgrade there will give him a pretty darned big boost! With only 128 megs, a 10,000RPM SCSI array wouldn't be much of a performance boost for an XP machine....
     
    Slappy, Nov 14, 2005
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    crucial is pretty good, I have an 4 year old dell notebook, I used the crucial scanning tool, and now it has 512mb of ram, not too expensive.
     
    Ib14132302, Nov 20, 2005
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  8. ZaZ

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    A bigger boost than the CPU. They shoudl do the memory as well.
     
    ZaZ, Nov 20, 2005
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