Compaq & memory

[pooruser]

Need some advice on this one.

I have a Compaq Presario 5474, i810E-DC100 with Celeron 500 & 64Mb RAM.
Can I use any kind of standard PC-100 RAM for it or do I need to pay more $$$ for Compaq memory?
Any one tried standard stuff, and which ones work?

thanks
Christian

 

[tm37]

Crucial

I wouldn't buy the cheapest memory but crucial is good mem at a cheap Price.

They didnot have a listing for 5474 but here is the 5475. If it is a desktop it more than likely takes Standard SDRAM.

 

[pooruser]

Thanks a lot. The 5474 should be almost identical to the 5475.

 

[Paulson]

Don't buy anything from compaq. (at least retail stuff from them...)

They overprice crap that sucks (sorta like my 2 computers....)

 

[pooruser]

So basically I am able to use standard memory ?
Are there many different kind of PC100 memorys? No of pins and so on.

 

[4824guy]

you probablty need SDRAM- which is 168 pins.

 

[QuiltingB]

I just bought more memory today from crucial for my compaq. I just followed their memory finder thing. I sure hope it is all correct. Crucial comes highly recommended, so I hope it works!

 

[goldboyd]

You don't even need PC100(but it wouldn't hurt). PC66 will be fine as a Celly 500 runs at 66mhz FSB, unless you're overclocking.

 

[pooruser]

Great help, thanks a lot (again).
To goldboy: It need to be PC100 since the chipset i810E-DC100 uses 100MHz memorybus, but the FSB to the processor is actually only 66MHz.