Memory For Acer Aspire 5051AWXMi

Idiophreak

Hi All,

I bought a new Acer Aspire 5051AWXMi a couple of weeks back, but it's since become evident that it's in need of some extra ram.

I don't know anything about laptops (this is my first) so can someone suggest what ram I should get and how much?

It's got 512 at present and normally in a desktop I'd just double up to a gig, but I think that's just my oldskool thought processes - will it be ok to put a new gig chip in along with the 512?

Ebuyer have a bundle with this, so I presume that's suitable, but wanna be sure.

Cheers

imho

Run this and will tell you what ram you have and what you need and how much it is.
http://www.crucial.com/uk/?gclid=CKjX-s-Q_IkCFQKCEAoddhd-Nw
Excellent company

frivolous_fay

My new work Acer arrived today. Imagine the shock when I went to stop the stupid music on the screensaver, and saw my face whizzing around the screen!

(Mutters something about people should tell you these things have webcams on them )

spookmeister

imho wrote:

Run this and will tell you what ram you have and what you need and how much it is.
http://www.crucial.com/uk/?gclid=CKjX-s-Q_IkCFQKCEAoddhd-Nw
Excellent company

It's worth pointing out that although the tool at Crucial.com for scanning your system is very useful their prices are not the best. Shop around. In fact - if you can find a discount code for PCworld it's well worth looking at their website or pop in of course. I got 512mb for 30 quid just after Xmas.

S.

imho

spookmeister,Yes and ebay sellers sell memory as well.But if its only a few £s in it i would go for crucial .I ordered some a few years ago,and i think i got it the next day,and if you have any problems ,they are really helpful.

A_Guard_Swine

Can you mix differnt speeds and sizes as I keep being told 2 differnt things.

imho

A Guard Swine emailCrucial too ask that.

sjc_2

The issue with the laptop is that it also shares the memory with graphics card so reduced even further than the 512MB available. I added a 512MB DDR2 DIMM to make up the 1GB and it made a massive difference, would of like to go to 2GB but couldn't justify the expense. Using them in matched pairs is recommended but not a necessity. As my works Laptop has a 1GB & a 512MB DDR2 DIMM.