I want 512mb RAM...

KingMetalx

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I have 256mb RAM and I'd like to upgrade to at least 512mb. But, I don't know what brand or what kind (DDR, etc). Is there anywhere that I can find out what kind I have...and do I have to buy that same kind or can I just go out, find a box that says "512MB MEMORY"? haha, Please help.
 
sure look at cpu-z
http://www.cpuid.org/cpuz.php#download
the memory tab will tell you speed and size of the ram you currently have, and thus what you should buy, and if you have 256 already then you can just go and buy any other 256 stick of the same speed rating and pop it in your machine to = 512
 
KingMetalx said:
Thx greatly :)
Sorry, one more thing:

I just downloaded that program and it says that I have 256 MB and PC2100 (133 MHz)....that 133 MHz....do I have to get RAM with that or could it be something like 266 MHz or higher?
 
you can get higher but it wont run at a faster speed. All your ram will run at the speed as designated by your slowest module (or your fsb but i doubts thats an issue here).
Maybe you could post a few spec about you machine. Also what is you cpu FSB, you'll see that on the first tab. and what is you FSB|DRAM ratio which you'll find on the ram page.
 
CPU-Z version 1.28.6.


CPU(s)
Number of CPUs 1

Name Intel Pentium 4
Code Name Northwood
Specification Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
Family / Model / Stepping F 2 7
Extended Family / Model 0 0
Brand ID 9
Package mPGA-478
Core Stepping C1
Technology 0.13 µ
Supported Instructions Sets MMX, SSE, SSE2
CPU Clock Speed 1993.5 MHz
Clock multiplier x 20.0
Front Side Bus Frequency 99.7 MHz
Bus Speed 398.7 MHz
L1 Data Cache 8 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L1 Trace Cache 12 Kµops, 8-way set associative
L2 Cache 512 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Speed 1993.5 MHz (Full)
L2 Location On Chip
L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes
L2 Bus Width 256 bits



Mainboard and chipset
Motherboard manufacturer Dell Computer Corp.
Motherboard model 02U819,
BIOS vendor Dell Computer Corporation
BIOS revision A06
BIOS release date 04/22/2003
Chipset Intel i845PE rev. A1
Southbridge Intel 82801DB (ICH4) rev. 1

Graphic Interface AGP
AGP Status enabled, rev. 2.0
AGP Data Transfer Rate 4x
AGP Max Rate 4x
AGP Side Band Addressing supported, not enabled
AGP Aperture Size 128 MBytes



Memory
DRAM Type DDR-SDRAM
DRAM Size 256 MBytes
DRAM Frequency 132.9 MHz
FSB:DRAM 3:4
CAS# Latency 2.5 clocks
RAS# to CAS# 3 clocks
RAS# Precharge 3 clocks
Cycle Time (TRAS) 6 clocks
DRAM Idle Timer 16 clocks
# of memory modules 1
Module 0 Mitsubishi DDR-SDRAM PC2100 - 256 MBytes



Software
Windows version Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
DirectX version 9.0c
 
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