RAM upgrade
 

Hi

I want to upgrade my RAMs in my laptop. Anyone has some experience if some brands are not compatible with each other? ie if I have a toshiba, do i have to get some specific brand, or any will do?

And what about the specs? any suggestions?

I currently have a 512MB card that I want to replace by a 1GB one (and maybe an additional 1GB in the future) on my tecra A4 (xp)

Hardware people? ...

To be more specific, can i chose any speed for the rams? 533MHZ 667MHz 800 ...? would "more" always be actually used by my laptop or will it be capped by some speed of other components?

thx

u should be careful if the board can support the speed of the RAM!i cant judge the board of ur laptop! i dont have much exp in those stuff but search abt it on the int... thats the only thing that matter... everything else will be gr8 if u upgrade ur RAM

thank you Mr Just.
I'll put this snapshot, if someone knows how to decode it.

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thanks

u can get 400mhz ddr ram 1gb (EXPENSIVE I GUESS) since you are gona replace.
i suggest kingstone as a brand.

thx. Can you pls tell me what's the limiting factor that made you say 400 mhz?
and just to double check, you do mean ddr2?
as for the cost, a 1gb kingston seems to be around 15-20$ (and they seem to be mostly 533MHz, 667MHz or 800MHz)

crap:P i didn't notice the DDR2.
so, you can get 800mhz ddr2.

thanks for ur help. i'll go for it and hopefully get some decent boost in performance