Upgrading Dell Inspiron 1720 memory

[Renderman21]

Hi,

My computer has become slow. I want to upgrade my Dell Inspiron 1720's RAM from 2GB to 3 or 4. I saw Kingston ValueRAM and contacted Kingston as to its compatibility with my notebook. Is it worth getting 4GB ?? I have windows vista on my pc??

[Mac-Imagery]

I don't think you will have 1x1GB module in your machine, it will most probably be 2 x 512MB. A 32-bit OS will only recognize 3.25-3.5gb of it. If you have a 64-bit OS it will recognize the full 4gb. The 4GB RAM limit imposed by 32-bit versions of Windows which means most will find less than 3.5GB of it actually available for use. Dell doesn't give an option for single module.

[SimonBoss]

Possibly the MOBO in your laptop does not support more then 4GB of memory, If a computer has 4 GB of random-access memory (RAM) installed, the system memory that is reported in the System Information dialog box in Windows Vista. Since it's Vista I want to put as much memory in as possible so 3gb (if it already has one slot with 1gb) otherwise 2.5 gb.

[TX-Snakebyte]

You can use 200 Pin DDR-2 667MHz (PC2-5400) SODIMM 2 gb, don't know about 4 gb, to check the compactability of ram download this tool. If you require advanced or additional hardware, check Microsoft for details.