Memory shopping

Chris1973 · 17-01-2005, 12:08

Hi all,

Anybody know of any good, reliable companies that sell memory on the net. Its for an HP Pavillion laptop. Many thanks, regards to all. Chris.

Neil · 17-01-2005, 12:09

www.crucial.com/uk

Halcyon · 17-01-2005, 12:47

Yep, crucial are very good and at excellent prices.
They also have a memory selector that helps you find the memory you need according to the motherboard you have.

Aragorn · 17-01-2005, 13:03

You could also look at www.memoryactive.co.uk or www.novatech.co.uk.

Certainly recommend using Crucial's selector to pick the required stick first.

Chris1973 · 17-01-2005, 17:59

Thats great, i'll check them out. Many thanks. Regards, Chris.

Florence · 17-01-2005, 18:49

Crucial ordered mine and it was here next day..

goldoni · 18-01-2005, 11:08

This Link will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about your pooter. It will even give you an html dump of the info.

Just putting my order in for some memory 2 x 512mb so-dimm

Thanks for the info

ikthius · 18-01-2005, 13:53

guys, I am slightly in the same boat.

I am wanting to upgrade my memory from 512Mb to 1Gb of memory. At the moment I have 2 sticks of 256Mb.

I checked the crucial system check and it reccomends this:
http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/Part...64Z40B&cat=RAM

but I also found this:
http://www.qed-uk.com/q/index.html?i...=3424469x&bi=0

is there any difference apart from the price? and what would you recommend?

cheers.

ik
p.s. I am not familiar with all the numbers and jargon on memory.

PC specs:
AMD Athlon 3000+
Ambit NF7-M Motherboard

anything else you need?

Aragorn · 18-01-2005, 15:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by ikthius

guys, I am slightly in the same boat.

I am wanting to upgrade my memory from 512Mb to 1Gb of memory. At the moment I have 2 sticks of 256Mb.

I checked the crucial system check and it reccomends this:
http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/Part...64Z40B&cat=RAM

but I also found this:
http://www.qed-uk.com/q/index.html?i...=3424469x&bi=0

is there any difference apart from the price? and what would you recommend?

cheers.

ik
p.s. I am not familiar with all the numbers and jargon on memory.

PC specs:
AMD Athlon 3000+
Ambit NF7-M Motherboard

anything else you need?

IK,

The QED link is for 2 x 512Mb DIMMs but the Crucial link is for a single 1Mb DIMM. I would recommend using multiple sticks of memory, just in case one goes faulty

If you look at http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/MPar...SPN=CT6464Z40B 2 x Crucial 512Mb DDR400 DIMMs are cheaper than the QED Kingston deal.

Alternatively I would recommend GEIL memory, such as :

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Product...608&GroupID=57 (2 x 512Mb sticks with Heat Spreader - faster than the Crucial memory - and actually cheaper than Crucial before postage!)

(Probably available on other sites as well)

HTH

ikthius · 18-01-2005, 23:12

Thanks Aragorn, but the geil memory, will it be fine for the motherboard.

ik