Laptop Memory Query

Butterfliesarepretty

My laptop is a three year old inspiron 6400. It currently has 1.5gb ram in it. Can I replace the two chips with two 2gb ones to make it 4gb???

This website suggests the maximum is 2gb?

http://www.mymemory.co.uk/kingston

My daughter has just got an acer laptop which has 4gb.

I dont want to spend on getting a new laptop, just want to make it a bit faster and possibly put windows seven on it when I get a copy.:rotfl:

santer_2

Dell say 2GB

http://accessories.euro.dell.com/sna/category.aspx?c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1&category_id=4325&mfgpid=1226097&chassisid=-1

alexmole

youll be wasting your money, windows 7 will run better than vista

closed

If you want it faster, look at what you have running, a memory upgrade won't make any difference

Hammyman

You only need 2GB. Replace the 512MB one with a 1GB one. I disagree with "closed" - memory is one of the cheapest speed upgrades you can fit. There does however become a point at which the increases are less noticable. The sweet spot for Vista and Windows 7 is 2GB.

You'll not only notice the difference from the extra 512MB but as the DIMMS are matched sizes, it'll run in dual channel mode which will increase the throughput by about 80%.

Butterfliesarepretty

TThanks I will replace it with a 1gb chip. When I bought the laptop in 2008 it had 1gb. I added the extra 512mb the year after.

closed

You will notice far less speed difference than whatever you noticed when you upgraded to 1.5. Disabling defender realtime scanning, and installing a lightweight antivirus like avast, or backing up and restoring to factory settings will have a far greater effect than adding another 512.

Butterfliesarepretty

I already have avast on. I have cleared my cache and browers and removed programs that are not used but I am still going to add the extra memory. to me its worth it in the long run.:D

closed

internet cache doesn't affect speed, nor do programs that aren't running at startup

Hammyman

Download and install IOBit Smartdefrag and run it. It'll speed up file access on your hard drive. I had one customer whose hard disk was so fragmented, IE took 5 minutes to load. By the time it'd been defragged that was down to 10 seconds.