Ram Help - A Couple Questions?

[wamrage]

I'm looking to upgrade the RAM on several of my PCs. They are Acer Veriton 7500.

From a quick scan on crucial.com I was told that I currently have 1 slot with 256MB (I know, pathetic) and the other slot is empty.

Here are where my questions come in:

First, it says that my system P4 1.8 GHz will recognize a max of 2GB of RAM, so I'm looking to get 2 x1GB stick obviously.

The website gives me this option for 127.99 if I want to purchase 2 sticks of:

CT297912 DDR PC2700 • CL=2.5 • Unbuffered • NON-ECC • DDR333 • 2.5V • 128Meg x 64


If I spend more I can get (about double the price):

CT414861 DDR PC4000 • 3-4-4-8 • Unbuffered • NON-ECC • DDR500 • 2.8V • 128Meg x 64



Is this difference worth getting the PC4000? Furthermore, once I've decided exactly which I should get, is there somewhere I could likely find this much cheaper?

[Silver Bullet]

You should probably be getting PC3200, though without knowing the specifics of your system is hard to tell. I can tell you for sure that PC4000 won't help you at all. PC3200/PC2700 were the standards back when P4 1.8Ghz were out.

Infonec has a 2GB kit for $129 - Link

You don't need to worry about the timings, with at system that old you'll never notice the difference anyway, in the end get the cheapest ram you can find. I'd check the for-sale threads to see if anyone is selling some instead of buying it new.

[wamrage]

You should probably be getting PC3200, though without knowing the specifics of your system is hard to tell. I can tell you for sure that PC4000 won't help you at all. PC3200/PC2700 were the standards back when P4 1.8Ghz were out.

Infonec has a 2GB kit for $129 - Link

You don't need to worry about the timings, with at system that old you'll never notice the difference anyway, in the end get the cheapest ram you can find. I'd check the for-sale threads to see if anyone is selling some instead of buying it new.

Thanks for the comments. So the difference from 2700 - 3200 will be felt then?

I'll look for that and hopefully I can find something cheap. If you need any other info on the system to give me a more detailed answer let me know.

[Silver Bullet]

Which motherboard you're running would help a bit ... again the difference between PC2700 and PC3200 isn't that great either.. but PC4000 is out of spec and requires overclocking the board to get the full potential out of that speed of ram. PC3200 should be your target personally ...

[wamrage]

Which motherboard you're running would help a bit ... again the difference between PC2700 and PC3200 isn't that great either.. but PC4000 is out of spec and requires overclocking the board to get the full potential out of that speed of ram. PC3200 should be your target personally ...

http://www.acersupport.com/desktop/h...500_specs.html

[wamrage]

Which motherboard you're running would help a bit ...

Where would I find that info?

[Silver Bullet]

Wow thats and oldy :P

PC2700 should be more than enough by the age of that system. I would look for used ram, it be a waste buy new ram for such an old system. You might even consider an upgrade to a new system at this point

[wamrage]

Wow thats and oldy :P

PC2700 should be more than enough by the age of that system. I would look for used ram, it be a waste buy new ram for such an old system. You might even consider an upgrade to a new system at this point

I've got about 10 of them in an office....thus cost is an issue to buy all new PCs at once. Since we only use the computers for email, word processing, etc. we don't need extremely fast processors or excellent video cards, but I figured the RAM would help with the lag we get multitasking, especially considering some PCs have 128MB or 256MB.


Thoughts?

[Silver Bullet]

10 ... I guess if you only using them for office work then ya upgrade makes more sense though I mean soon you're going to have to upgrade. For the short term adding ram to all the systems seems the most cost effective until you can afford a full system replacement. I'd aim for 1gb - 1.5gb .. 2gb seems kind of overkill, unless you can find the ram really cheap.

[wamrage]

10 ... I guess if you only using them for office work then ya upgrade makes more sense though I mean soon you're going to have to upgrade. For the short term adding ram to all the systems seems the most cost effective until you can afford a full system replacement. I'd aim for 1gb - 1.5gb .. 2gb seems kind of overkill, unless you can find the ram really cheap.

You're probably right, I'm just hungry for 2GB because I'm stuck with a PC that has 256MB!

[Silver Bullet]

Even 1GB should make a world of difference

[wamrage]

Even 1GB should make a world of difference

I'll probably just take your advice and stick to that. I was given money to up about 1/2 the comps to 2GB so it would make more sense to get them all to 1GB for primarily word processing.

[Amourek]

No motherboard with a P4 1.8 installed will allow you to run the RAM at DDR500 - it won't even let you run at DDR400. So if you feel like wasting some money, go for it.

[wamrage]

No motherboard with a P4 1.8 installed will allow you to run the RAM at DDR500 - it won't even let you run at DDR400. So if you feel like wasting some money, go for it.

Ummm....so the advice I took from Silver when buying this:

http://www.infonec.com/site/main.php...etail&id=10857


Was a bad decision?

[wamrage]

Now I gotta figure all this **** out...dammit.


What can I get that will actually work with these computers.