Is it ok to add 256mb to 512mb??? please help! Other Vista Discussions Discuss Is it ok to add 256mb to 512mb??? please help! in the Windows Vista forums; Hey i bought a pc afew months back......... Amd sempron 3200+ said 512mb ram, ended up 447mb, is that normal, for them to chat ****??l lol Nvidia geforce 6100 nforce ...

[martyboy]

Hey i bought a pc afew months back.........

Amd sempron 3200+
said 512mb ram, ended up 447mb, is that normal, for them to chat ****??l lol
Nvidia geforce 6100 nforce 405
80gb hard drive.

yeh anyways found out the type i think i have 512mb ddr2

and i wna install 256MB 133MHz SDRAM CL3?

i've done alittle reasearch and found out that its ok, aslong as they are the same speeds?.

can someone please tell me if this is ok?.
isnt there somethin about how, ur pc will run at the lowest aswell??, coz i wouldnt want it runnin on a 256.

[martyboy]

just incase ppl was thinking the same idea...............found out that sdram is too slow, i have a ddr2 which is like 2times the speed of sdram??? right???.

[airman]

A little more info would be nice make model of motherboard etc

[martyboy]

how do i find that out??
erm.........acer aspire t180- 197z?????



a friend said it couldnt work coz the 256 was sdram and my present 512 was ddr2!.

if u cud help me out, that wud be great!!!!!

[Znod]

Here is a link that might help you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_channel. The link does not deal with exactly what you are asking, perhaps, but see what you think. And, welcome.

[Buster]

Look up the specs for your motherboard it will tell you what ram you can run and what configuration you need to use in each slot
I prefer OCZ ram its highly recommended on the net and works really well on mine

[iMatt]

hmmm....looks like you graphic card is taking 64Mb or so for itsown needs. 512 - 447 = 64 (65 really). One of the joys and pitfalls of integrated graphix, you don't need to purchase a graphic card esp if not into games, video editing or graphics. On the other hand you usually lose some system memory.

[airman]

According to Kingston you have 4 slots and your processor supports either DDR2 533 or DDR2 667 and if you want some real proformance get a 1 gig dual channel kit ram is cheap on club- it online weg site it is only19.95 for 1 gig of Value ram in DDR2 667 Kingston . Ram is cheap and having only 512 1 gig would help you system. Just make sure that is what is in your system for sure look at you manual.

[martyboy]

hmmmm.........

i know what a motherboard looks like but i duno what the specs or model is is that makes sense?, how do i find out what my motherboard is called and specs??..

and what is intergrated graphix??

[Buster]

I you look at the screen as boot you will see it reading the motherboard normally it will give you the name of the motherboard or just search the manufactures web site for your model