Do you know the type and amount of computer memory that your computer motherboard supports out of your head? There are ways to look those information up, for example in the manual that came with the computer motherboard but what if you bought the computer fully assembled? You could open it and find out about the motherboard and look it up or use a software that tells you exactly what computer memory is supported by your computer.
The tool that does this is called Crucial System Scanner (via Shellcity) which is a tool that can give you the information for a safe computer memory upgrade. It is however deeply connected with the Crucial store which sells computer memory.
When you start the tool it opens a website in your default web browser that is showing you your computer’s specifications.
It displays the number of RAM banks, the banks that already contain computer memory but more importantly than that the supported DRAM Types, the computer memory frequencies and the maximum that can be installed on the computer. In my case it would be DDR2 SDRAM with PC”-5300, PC2-6400 and PC2-8500 frequencies and a maximum of 8192 Megabytes of computer memory.
If the software is not able to detect the information properly you could enter the motherboard information manually to receive the same kind of information for the computer memory upgrade. Oh, and you do not have to buy from their store obviously.
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I’ve used it a bunch of times, it’s fantastic.
yeah its nice, even though it is connected to their store, they have some of the best prices and best service around.
if you don’t want to connect to their store.. try cpu-z
I was just looking at Crucial the other day! Previous to this, I had looked at the ‘Kingston’ memory website, and it seems both of them are giving the same results (when I select my laptop model from the list) It was a bit depressing to find I can only get max 1.5gb of ram in total though…