Laptop Memory Needed

wazza

Brother has a Compaq Evo n1005v laptop and wants to increase the memory. At present it is a puny 256Mb. Have been on the crucial.com website where it says he can have two 512Mb cards fitted.

Is the crucial.com the best website for prices and quality or can you recommend any other websites?

Where can i find fitting instructions for the laptop?

Thanks in advance to those who replied.

latecomer

Laptops are said to be fussy with memory but I've upgraded 3 in my time and never had a problem. Just make sure you get something thats compatible with your laptop. Crucial are a manufacturer, you might get a better deal somewhere else. You shouldn't go wrong with them though.

Shaun_d123

Crucial website will also do a scan of the laptop and reccomend best memory.

Think they also do a money back guarantee if they reccomend the wrong sort

http://www.crucial.com/systemscanner/

http://www.computermemoryupgrade.net/installing-laptop-memory.html

d900

id go for crucial they take all the guess work and effort out of looking for memory also they are not expensive and do free delivery

i just got 4gb for my laptop for around 60 quid came next day

Anne_Marie_2

I find http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/default.php?cPath=777 have quite good prices for buying RAM

TiTheRev

Recently bought from crucial myself. Got a link for 5% discout (it all helps!) and bought the RAM, worked fine but didnt get the discount. Quick email, they apologised and gave me the 5% discount and reduced the carriage. Good quality product and service IMO

Donnie

Crucial? Hmmmmmmm...... Just get two of these.

loracan1

I did the scan on crucial - got the details of the ram I needed and bought them on 'collect at store'' from pcworld. Cheapest place I could find oddly enough!

nomoneytoday

Crucial are usually nearly the cheapest. However, they do offer an unconditional guarantee and 7% quidco

Donnie

Crucial at 20 pounds each, are almost double the price of my suggestion. Which, incidentally, does also have a Lifetime Warranty.

Crucial does not even stock PC2100 memory, so the OP has probably purchased whatever Crucial said would work.

wazza

Thanks for the replies.

The memory i need is 512mb 200 pin SODIMM DDR PC2700.

What is the difference between DDR266 and DDR333? I believe 333 is faster. All i know is all the memory fitted should be 266 or 333 and not a mixture.

Donnie - your link refers to ddr266

http://www.amazon.co.uk/ByteStor-PC2100-266MHz-SO-DIMM-Notebooks/dp/B00025E07M

won't this be better

http://www.amazon.co.uk/ByteStor-PC2700-333MHz-SO-DIMM-Notebooks/dp/B00025E0JK/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1217879661&sr=1-4


Also seen this

http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/931239/-/Product.html


any suggestions? plan to get two 512mb cards