ram

[Recster]

ok i plan on buying 2 sticks of 512 MB. i am planning on buying it from this website ( http://www.pcboost.com/store/viewitem.asp?IDProduct=2155 )and wanted to know if this ram was of good quality and if it would be compadible with my computer which is a dell dimension 4550.

EDIT: I don't know if this will help any but here it is

DIMM_A 256 MB
Total Slots 2
Slots free 1

Total Memory 256 MB
% Free Physical Memory 14.00 %

Total Page Space 618 MB
% Free Page File Space 64.47 %

Total Virtual Memory 873 MB
% Free Virtual Memory 49.73 %

[Daleon]

Ah man, thats some really 'not so good' ram. Non-name brand, so no telling what you really get.

This deal blows it away:
http://www.googlegear.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=80059

512 PC2700 Corsair cas 2.5 for $51.00 with free 2nd day air. And googlegear is extremely reputable.

I am not 100% sure on Dell compatibility as they can be rather picky about ram sometimes. Usually high quality works well. But that stuff you picked out has no compatibility guarantee either.

I've also had good luck with Kingston in Dell's.

[Recster]

ok i don't know how fast my current ram is right now so say it is 256mb of PC133 SDRAM now if i were to get a stick of 512mb PC2700 DDR SDRAM would it work together?

[Talisein]

No. First you should try and find out if your motherboard even supports DDR RAM. The rule with RAM is try to match everything: Speed, type, even brand. Brand's not that important. Mixing differant speed RAM of the same time might work if you're not too drastic. But type is a must!

[Daleon]

Yea, only a few older Athlon boards supported mixture of SDRAM and DDR. Also if you have only 2 slots, they are prolly both the same. You can look, if they are different colors maybe one of each. May be better off with new MB.