Calling on the Sacred Geek Oracle

Poststructural Pub
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Okay…for some time now, I have been wanting to upgrade the RAM(?) on my computer. I am a half-geek as well, but this is just a little beyond me. I know my computer has DIMM slots, and already came with 128 MB SDRAM. How should I go about working this out? I went to the Circuit City website, and searching for DIMM cards, I came across “codes” that came with them i.e. PC3200/2700/2100. What should I get now? I thought everything was generic. Do the codes matter?

Any help is appreciated. We can also use this page as a reference. Thanks plenty!

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The PC3200 etc is basically the speed of the ram. In the olden days, it was measured in bus speed (pc133, etc). Now, it’s measured in megabits per second (thus, pc3200 is 3200 megabits per second, which is a bus speed of 400). It’s not generic :slight_smile:

Your motherboard manual should be able to tell you what kind of memory your it will take. Alternately, if you can get a motherboard manufacturer and model number from the board itself, one of us can probably find the information on the internet.

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This company has an online function that will specify which product will go with your computer:

http://www.crucial.com/

Best wishes,
Jerry

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great resource, Jerry!

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what an excellent site, jerry!

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I always order memory from Crucial and never had a single problem.

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Greg, thanks for the tips…

…and Jerry, thank’s for the link. I found what I was looking for.

:thumbsup:

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Oh…and…Shadow

Geeks are not sacred! :wink:

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Though they are, occasionally, scared.

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guess one should remember that, hm? :slight_smile:

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Fairly often, eh? :laughing:

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Do they [Crucial] ship UPS or USPS?