Would like to upgrade my laptop ram.

[ak_47_boy]

I have a travelmate 2300 with pc2700. Could i put pc3200 or pc5400 in it?
Could i use this one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/1GB-DDR2-PC2-5400-667-Laptop-MEMORY-RAM-Dell-Inspiron_W0QQitemZ6875670289QQcategoryZ80202QQrdZ1 QQcmdZViewItem
would this function at 667mhz?
thanks

[Deathspawner]

Your laptop uses DDR1.. that auction is DDR2. If you bought your laptop brand new and it wasn't a 'super budget' type, then PC2700 is probably the fastest you can upgrade it to. I would look up that model on the companies website and see what they say.

If you are using 512MB in your lapper, then simply upgrading to 1GB PC2700 would make a bigger difference than going from PC2700 to PC3200.

[ak_47_boy]

I got the laptop cheap (broken, woulden`t power on) fixed it and put a 1.8ghz dothan (oced to 2ghz) in it and a gig of pc2700 ram. I would like to game on it so i would like fast ram because the onboard video uses system ram. Im kind of a noob to ram for some reason... :confused:

[Deathspawner]

The spec sheet (http://www.acer.co.in/products/notebooks/TM2300.pdf) for that model doesn't really give much info, but it looks like the best you are going to do is 2 * 512MB PC2700. Chances are you will have a hard time gaming on that, unless you are playing older games. Nothing can get much worse than onboard video.

[ak_47_boy]

i can run hl2 at full settings at about 50fps... its a radeon mobile 9700, maby now that i think about it i think is deticated but has an adapter that requires ram... or somthng...

[Deathspawner]

Oh damn. That spec sheet, even though it's filename is correct, the information in it isn't. A 9700 PRO is leaps and bounds above integrated.

I'd run EVEREST on your PC and run a report. Maybe you can get some motherboard information you could Google to see what it's capable of.

[ak_47_boy]

Awww crap... it is not a 9700. This is what everest said:

Display:
Video Adapter Intel(R) 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller (64 MB)
Video Adapter Intel(R) 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller (64 MB)
3D Accelerator Intel Extreme Graphics 2

Is this a piece of crap? I dont know why hl2 runs so good...

[Deathspawner]

Neither do I :D

How much system ram do you have? I assume you have 512MB because I can't see them giving you a system with WinXP running on 192MB.

And.. if HL2 runs so good, why exactly do you want to upgrade your ram?

[[cTx]Philosophy]

HL2 settings have to be bottom of barrel to run that good..