RAM for the v5000z

I didn't want this to get lost in the "Any 5000 owner thread". I was planning on buying a stick of 1gb for my new v5000z with ML-40 Turion. I know I'm restricted to DDR ram. My question is should I go for pc3200 or pc2700. It seems several people said they bought pc3200, but I opened the bay up last night, and the current stick is pc2700. Is there any advantage towards with the pc3200 then? I plan on leaving the current 256 pc2700 stick in there.

 

Unless You throw away the old stick there is no reason for buying pc3200. with the old one it would work anyway as pc 2700. I bought !GB pc 3200 crucial cl3 from mwawe for ~100$
according to the Super Pi the time needed for calculating 2M pi digits decreases from 1m50s to 1m43s. If You do not need the "highiest" performance do not bother yourself with pc3200. If You have couple $ more .... Definitely I would not buy pc 3200 cl2.5 . It does not work on some laptops and I doubt that it is worh of the difference between cl3 and cl2.5 ( especially fo 1GB stick, the situation is a little different for 512MB). Wanna feel better for couple $ that You squized Your lappy performance as much as possible - go for it. Anyway the weekest part is the graphics.....
In Your situation if You do not do heavy calculations or do not want other Hp users to be jealous just buy pc 2700 cl2.5 . In games pc3200 wont help

 

OCZ PC3200 512mb does not run in my v5005US. I had ordered 2 sticks and when I installed the 2 sticks, the computer would not boot. I removed 1 stick and reinserted one of the 256mb sticks and found that it would boot. 1 of the 512mb sticks was bad. I reordered another one and it was suggested on the forum to try the 512 stick alone. Now it doesn't boot with either 512 stick.

I will return the 2 512mb sticks. What should I replace it with? Either Crucial 3200 1gb or Corsair Value Select 3200 1gb? Or should I just go with 2700 speed to eliminate possible problems?

 

Get Crucial, PC2700 or PC3200 depending on the price difference.

 

The PC3200 is about $40 more at Newegg than the PC2700. I don't think the speed difference would justify paying 40% more for the same amount of ram. I'll just use the 1gb PC2700 crucial along with one of the 256mb OEM chips.