RAM Compatibility Question

**peshek77** · February 17th, 2007, 12:39 AM

Hello everyone.

I have a Gateway CX2724 with 2 RAM slots both used with a 2x512 MB DDR2 533Mhz (PC 4200). I want to upgrade to 2x1024MB, but I am kind of stuck. I went to newegg and found memory that I liked (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820144183).

All great reviews. I thought I would see why people gave lessa favorable reviews and one of them suggested that I check compatibility with Kengston. So I went to their website and my machine was not in the list for compatible notebooks. What was compatible (http://www.ec.kingston.com/ecom/conf...submit1=Search)
is not even sold by newegg and as you can see it is twice as expensive for what seems, to my untrained eye, basically the same product.

Two questions:

1. What am I missing?
2. If I buy the memory I liked, will it run on my notebook?

I could never figure out what kind of RAM I need... so emberrasing

.

Thank you all for the help.

**NooNoo** · February 17th, 2007, 04:41 AM

According to Crucial your Gateway supports

Each memory slot can hold DDR2 PC2-5300,DDR2 PC2-4200 with a maximum of 1GB per slot.*

so here is the Crucial Version

You said

I went to newegg and found memory that I liked

Which is probably why you have a hard time with memory. Each motherboard supports a given specification of RAM, so choosing RAM is not what you do - you find RAM that matches the specification.

I personally like Crucial, because they have a no quibble warranty, never had a dead stick from them and if they say it's compatible and it doesn't work, then they sort out for you.

The memory at Newegg would probably work, but is slower than the Crucial offering and of course you would have the hassle of returning it non faulty if it didn't. Buying it direct from Kingston is possible and they do have your laptop listed

So now you have a choice, slightly slower memory from Kingston or the faster stuff from Crucial. The newegg price for the Kingston is fantastic...

**street1** · February 17th, 2007, 08:13 AM

You can download and run CrucialScan.exe---->Here

I agree Crucial is best all around. Plus you have been told this
by our Genius NooNoo!

**Ferrit** · February 17th, 2007, 08:54 AM

Crucial is good and I also use Corsair and Kingston
Here is the link to Corsair
http://www.corsairmemory.com/corsair...or_search.html

**peshek77** · February 17th, 2007, 12:15 PM

Thank you.

NooNoo, as usual, has a great answer. It's funny. A guy from Gateway wanted to sell me 1GBx2 modules at PC4200 for $105 each.

I guess Crucial is the winner here.

Just one more thing... Any ideas what I should do with my old modules? I don't have another machine to put them in.

Thanks.