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  • weirdlookinguy
    Badcaps Legend
    • Sep 2007
    • 1638
    #1

    Real Quick Question

    My laptop has been ridiculously slow lately. I mean unusably so. 6+ minute bootup times, hell even just switching tabs in Firefox brings everything to a screeching halt sometimes. I suspect the four-year-old Hitachi drive in it, because I just did a clean install of XP and it's still horrendously slow.

    While I'm getting a new HDD for it, I figured what the hell, might as well get it that RAM I've always wanted to buy.

    It's a 2005-ish HP Pavilion ze2113us. Crucial tells me it takes 200-pin SO-DIMM PC2700, DDR333. I want to put this in it:

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820134186

    Is that gonna be fine? It's a one gig stick of Kingston 200-pin SO-DIMM PC3200, DDR400. I'm 99% sure it's gonna be fine but returning shit to online retailers is a bitch.
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    • Harvey
      Badcaps Veteran
      • Apr 2007
      • 264
      #2
      Re: Real Quick Question

      You'll find 99% of others will be 99% sure it'll work fine too. Just once in a blue moon you get a system (generally a laptop) that doesn't play with a particular make/size/speed of RAM, but there's no way of guessing what will/won't other than actually try it.

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        • zandrax
          Hit and miss
          • Dec 2007
          • 1157
          • Italy
          #3
          Re: Real Quick Question

          The ram should be fine; anyway check the disk for bad sectors with Hitachi's Disk Fitness Test.

          Zandrax
          Have an happy life.

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