Hi all,

First, I apologize if I am posting this in the wrong forum, but I was unable to post this question in the Driverheavens Heaven, since I kept on getting "Not authorized..." error.

I am trying to upgrade the memory for my notebook (Dell Inspiron 9100) and the manual shows that the memory has a voltage rated at 2.5 volts.

The memory my notebook uses is a standard 200-PIN SODIMM PC3200 DDR, so I went to search on the net for such memory. I found lots of them, from Crucial, Kingston, and Corsair.

However, most of these memories have a voltage rated at 2.6 volts and above, sometimes at 3.3 volts.

I have searched the Internet to find out what exactly is the voltage rate used for, since I am wondering if I can use a higher voltage memory for my notebook. The reason I want to choose higher voltage is because it's cheaper.

i.e. Crucial is selling 512 MB 200-PIN SODIMM with 2.5 volts at $ 144. Corsair is selling the same one, with 2.6 volts, at $ 105.

If anybody know about this, please feel free to share. Thanks!
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System Specs
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Dell Inspiron 9100
P4 3.0 Ghz Hyper-Threading
800 Mhz FSB
512 MB of RAM (256 x 2 DDR PC3200)
ATI Radeon Mobility 9700 w/ 128 Mb RAM (Omega Driver 2.5.44)
60 GB HDD
Dell 802.11 b/g WLAN and Bluetooth TrueMobile