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Need help/advice about voltage: I want to upgrade my ram from pc2 5300 to pc2 6400
I recently bought a gateway fx7024. The pc comes with 3 gigs of pc2 5300 at 1.8 volts. I checked the specifications for my motherboard on the gateway site and it says that it "supports 1.8V DIMMs."
I want to switch to 4 gigs pc2 6400. Specifically, I was looking to upgrade to the corsair xms2. The specification for this ram says that the voltage is 2.1. Will my pc be able to use this ram, or do I have to look for rams that have a voltage of 1.8?
The os in this pc is vista, and I know that it won't recognize all 4 gigs; it'll probably recognize 3.5 gigs or so, but I'm not really concerned about that. I figured that I'd buy 4 gigs just to fill up the memory slots.
I would also appreciate it if anyone here could answer this additional question for me. By doing this upgrade, will there there be any significant improvements with my system in regards to running the os and playing games? I would really appreciate the help here. Thanks.
I recently bought a gateway fx7024. The pc comes with 3 gigs of pc2 5300 at 1.8 volts. I checked the specifications for my motherboard on the gateway site and it says that it "supports 1.8V DIMMs."
I want to switch to 4 gigs pc2 6400. Specifically, I was looking to upgrade to the corsair xms2. The specification for this ram says that the voltage is 2.1. Will my pc be able to use this ram, or do I have to look for rams that have a voltage of 1.8?
The os in this pc is vista, and I know that it won't recognize all 4 gigs; it'll probably recognize 3.5 gigs or so, but I'm not really concerned about that. I figured that I'd buy 4 gigs just to fill up the memory slots.
I would also appreciate it if anyone here could answer this additional question for me. By doing this upgrade, will there there be any significant improvements with my system in regards to running the os and playing games? I would really appreciate the help here. Thanks.