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March 30th, 2009 01:00

Dell inspiron 1525 800 mhz ram upgrade

I want to upgrade the 3g ram 667 mhz of my laptop with 2 brand new stick of 2 gb each resulting in 4 gb of ram. Thing is i want to get 800 mhz, will my inspiron 1525 support it?

 

Config:

Core2Duo T8100, 2.1 ghz alias Penryn-3M

3g ram 667 mhz

GMA x3100 with 1440x900 display, 9 cell battery

802.11n wifi card

 

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March 30th, 2009 05:00

No.  The chipset in the system has a RAM max of 667 MHz - you can install PC2-6400 RAM, but it will run at 667 MHz.

For 800 MHz bus RAM support you need one of the newer systems using a Centrino2/Montevina chipset - the older chipset you have doesn't support RAM at 800 MHz.

 

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March 30th, 2009 05:00

goddamnit! Well thank you for the info. I was planning on upgrading and you just saved me 50$

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