Picking up ram

Hi, I currently have 2 gigs of ram on one stick and I am planing on upgrading to 4 gigs.

I'm not quite sure how to pick out ram, but I was wondering if this is compatible with my whitebook?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227348

Thank you!

P.S. Besides upgrading to vista 64 bit, is there anything else that needs to be done, before I upgrade my ram?

 

umm no. that ram won't work with your whitebook. it only works with the newer alum. macbook/ pros. they are DDR3. your whitebook only takes DDR2. so get some 800mhz DDR2 ram.

 

dude, the OCZ Whitebook absolutely uses DDR3 RAM. that stuff you linked to there is perfect, if you do indeed have an OCZ Whitebook/Arima W840.

on a side note, you only have two RAM slots, so make sure you don't already have two 1GB sticks in your lappy. because if you do, you can only replace one of them with that 2GB stick for 3GB total. if you want 4GB, you'll need to get two 2GB sticks.

 

Thank you very much for your reply! This is what is said on my order form, - Ram: - 2,048MB (1 SODIMM) DDR3 1066MH. So, is it safe to assume one module is being used?

If not, is there a picture showing which compartment on the base of my laptop I need to unscrew to physically check? I've never done this before, but I figure I might as well take a look, since I will need to upgrade the ram myself.

Lastly, from what I understand, because my fsb is only 1066, getting ddr3 ram that is 1333 will not make a difference? The 1333 modules are only about 10-20 dollars more expensive. I may have misunderstood, though. I'm not very tech savvy.

 

does the whitebook have more than one service cover? if so, one's probably labeled with "RAM" or with an image of RAM sticks. at any rate, if your order slip says you've got one RAM module, i don't think there's any reason to think this isn't true.

regarding the FSB, well, 1333mhz RAM will perform minutely better because it'll run at a slightly lower latency. however, you won't notice this, not even in benchmarks. so there's really no need to spend more, even if it's only 20$.

 

Thank you very much! Your help is greatly appreciated.

 

One of the great selling features of the OCZ Whitebook is, er was the ability to take up to 8 GB of DDR3 ram. However you cannot just stick in some pc1333 or pc2000 for that matter and expect it to run at that clock! The BIOS needs the ability to overclock the ram, which was a feature OCZ was planning to implement in future BIOS updates - so much for that . . .

I believe the BIOS is set to 1066 at default clock so pc1333 won't do you any good.

Now you know why the desktop is the way to go for overclocking where you have control of VCORE, fsb of the CPU and ram, dividers, and in the ole days (sniff sniff), VDIMM. Bah! No challenge anymore with this slow CAS stuff the boards take these days. With the NF4 boards, we'd control up to 25 parameters of the RAM, all of which had to be tweaked by trial and error to get it stable at maximum overclocks. BH-5 used to need VDIMM up to 4.0 volts whereas the DDR3 nowadays only needs 2.35 or whatever. So therein came voltmodding of the boards.