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August 27th, 2005 02:00

Installing additional memory {uneven}

Hi, I have a dell Inspiron 9300 with 512MB Ram, Eventually I want to upgrade to 2GM of ram, does anyone know if I can successfully install a 1GB along with the 512MB until I can afford the additonal 1GB ram.  I know that typically ram is installed in pairs of the same MB, but I seem to recall that I upgraded an older Dell system with uneven memory in the distant past.  I want to be sure that I'm not doing any harm, while at the same time, I don't want the current 512 MB to go to waste if I can help it; in other words in my mind 1.5GB ram is better than 1GB or .5GB.  Thanks in advance for anyone's experience with this.
  • 4fluke

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    Posted August 27th, 2005 03:00

    It shouldn't be a problem - I've got a 512 M memory card along with a 256 M memory card in my machine - no problemo. 
  • bacillus

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    Posted August 27th, 2005 08:00

    yes, you can used unmatched sticks of memory though this will disable dual channel memory support.
  • scottatah

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    Posted August 27th, 2005 17:00

    also verify your particular pc handles 1GB sticks of memory.  
  • 4fluke

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    Posted August 27th, 2005 19:00

    Good point - I take that for granted now....
  • bacillus

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    Posted August 27th, 2005 20:00

    the 9300 can use 2Gb of ram!
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    Posted August 27th, 2005 20:00



    @4fluke wrote:
    It shouldn't be a problem - I've got a 512 M memory card along with a 256 M memory card in my machine - no problemo. 



    Your 5150 doesn't have dual channeling...
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    Posted August 30th, 2005 01:00

    Thanks to all of you for responding, One question, what's the impact of disabling dual channel?
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    Posted August 30th, 2005 01:00

    performance. Ram essentially runs at half the speed of dual channel.