Gateway Comp upgrade w/ RDRAM Pls. Help.

[rc7237]

I have a Gateway 700x with P4 2ghz and 256 rdram. Gateway's price for their ram is expensive , but i found a good price at googlegear.com . It's a kingston valueram PC800 which is the same as my memory. The only thing confusing is that they have a 40ns and one that doesn't say it. Any advice would be a great help from you pros. Thanks.

 

[Crashman]

40ns PC800 is better than 45ns PC800 because it supports the split setting (533 CPU bus with PC800). It's backwards compatable to slower speeds, so I recommend the PC800-40 over the PC800-45.

<font color=blue>Watts mean squat if you don't have quality!</font color=blue>

 

[rc7237]

Thanks 4d advice. Just want to have more confidence in what i'm trying to buy.

 

[VelocityPimp]

you need to pull the ram from your gateway and looke at it

make sure you buy memory that matches your existing ram

there are 128/8 strips and 128/4 sticks, and they don't run together, as i recall. hopefully you have -40, but if not you need to buy whatever matches

 

[rc7237]

Kingson's website says 700x series uses 40ns . should I trust the site?
That's the model of my gateway. thanks in advance.