DDR2 Memory

I recently purchased a laptop. Acer Aspire 3690. It only has 512 memory. I am looking to upgrade. I checked at www.crucial.com and www.MemoryTen.com

MemoryTen is about $20 cheaper overall for 2 1GB which is the most I can upgrade to.

Does anyone know if one is better than the other?

 

Re: DDR@ Memory

We'll need to know the specific sticks you are comparing.

 

Re: DDR@ Memory

Here is the one from crucial
http://www.crucial.com/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=9E0E03A2A5CA7304

and the one from memoryten
http://www.memoryx.net/acerxtg1024.html

 

gal1998. Unless you are a power user, heavy gamer, or do lots of multi-tasking, 2 megs is overkill. I have 2 megs in my Toshiba Tecra A7 laptop and rarely use over 500 megs at a time, therefore the additional 1 gigabyte is never used. It so good for bragging purposes but not really required. I use XP Pro, SP2 and most updates. I wouldn't have bothered with the xtra gig but got it a good price at the time. Bazza

PS: Maybe buy a 1 gig stick. Put it in slot 1, put your existing RAM in slot 2 and you will end up with 1.5 gigs and save money, and have plenty of RAM. That way you can utilise your existing 512 mb stick. Baz

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Well Crucial is a namebrand in memory and so in Kingston the only difference between those two is there is any (other then the brand name) is the RAM timings Crucials is 5-5-5-15, Kingstons i believe is 5-5-5-15 also but im not entirely sure, the lower the timing the better i believe that the most u would get out of laptop ram is 4-4-4-12 so its not like you would be missing out on anything. Honestly i would recommend going for the Kingston it should be just as good as the Crucial and is 20 bucks less, is someone else has an opinion please feel free to post it. Also 2gigs is alot of memory unless your laptop has a 256mb shared ram video card or you are running Vista I would recommend running 1gig, 1gig is more then enough for Windows XP and for running games in XP, I'm not sure how old you laptop is but if I was you i woudlnt recommend upgrading it to Vista due to the need of more graphics processing power (i know that wasnt one of your questions but 2gigs is really only nessary for Vista.

 

Guess I should have mentioned this is running Vista Home Basic.

I am not a heavy user, but do like to play my music on it.

Think 1 GB would be enough then?

 

If I was you, I'd buy an extra 1 gig, and fit it in Slot 1, and your 512 in Slot 2. That way you will have 1.5 gigs and that should be plenty.

You can always add an extra 1 gig later (for 2 gigs), and discard the 512 megs if you find you have the need for 2 gigs (although I doubt it). :major Bazza

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Thanks for the advice. That is what i will do, then, is buy 1gig.

PS. Bazza, you have a PM on another subject.
PSS. Thanks to whichever moderator changed my typo in the Subject of my message.

 

PM replied to. Bazza