Hairboy

Hi

Couldn't decide whether to post this on here or in Laptop section, but here it goes.

I have an old IBM X31 laptop, which was given by work after it was all written off, so worth nothing to them.

Anyway, it's got 1.4ghz Pentium M, and 512 PC2100 RAM. On Levono site, it says it only supports PC2100 or PC2700 RAM. Will it absolutely not take any of the later DDR? I had someone offer me PC4200 1GB ram from a Dell Inspiron, but if my laptop can't take it, there would be no point. Any advise would be appreciated.

Takendown2

do u really need the lappy? cause u could get a EEE PC for like $350 or a MSI wind for similar price which would out perform ur pentium m

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Hairboy

Well, the laptop is free, and RAM is close to free. All I want to do is the use it as a means of dumping my photos from the compact flash onto the portable HDD via the free lappie when out on location photoshoot. 512MB at the moment struggles too much with the amount of data. I was hoping upping it to 1GB would make it cope better. Can it take PC4200 DDR sticks designed for Dell when it only supports officially up to PC2700?

Takendown2

no you cant pop it in the slots as laptops cant be OCed(generally speaking) so your better off with some that actually works with the laptop

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Sorry for my bad english
NO SYSTEM IS EVER GOING TO BE FUTURE PROOF!!!
3.36 GHz on E6420 1.35Vcore:http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=394404
4GHz on E7300 with 1.4Vcore(1.3625V After Vdroop):http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=443542

i n f a m o u s

No, because PC4200 is actually DDR2 ram, and your laptop apparently only supports DDR. Try looking on Craigslist.com, you can probably sell that 1GB of PC4200 or trade it for what your looking for.

Why would he want to buy another laptop when he already got one for free?

I also doubt an Intel Atom processor would outperform a Pentium M processor. Source

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