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From: Broons Bane on 15 Jun 2008 02:57
Hi there

I scanned my laptop at crucial.com and was told that my laptop memory
type was DDR PC2-5200.

Although you can buy it, not many places sell it. Is there another
memory type that would be compatible with it?

Thanks :)
From: Bigguy on 15 Jun 2008 09:10
Broons Bane wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I scanned my laptop at crucial.com and was told that my laptop memory
> type was DDR PC2-5200.
>
> Although you can buy it, not many places sell it. Is there another
> memory type that would be compatible with it?

DDR PC2-5300 is much more common and should work OK at 5200 speeds.

http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/listmodule.aspx?family=DDRII&tabid=DDR2+PC2%2D5300

http://www.corsair.com/configurator/default.aspx


Guy

>
> Thanks :)
From: Barry Watzman on 16 Jun 2008 13:25
It's pretty common, but any faster DDR is likely to work (e.g. PC2-6400,
etc.). Note, PC2 = DDR2, not [just plain] DDR [e.g. DDR1]


Broons Bane wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I scanned my laptop at crucial.com and was told that my laptop memory
> type was DDR PC2-5200.
>
> Although you can buy it, not many places sell it. Is there another
> memory type that would be compatible with it?
>
> Thanks :)
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