Just a quick one, I am doing some looking but cant seem to get my head round it,

I have a Dell Inspiron 1720 with vista 32bit HP on it and 2GB of DDR2 PC-5300 667mhz, the CPU is the Intel Core 2 Duo T5550 667 FSB 2mb cache, and the NVidia 8600M 256mb gfx card.

now Ive done the crucial test and it says that I can put in pc-6400 800mhz ram? what is the score on that, It is cheaper to buy this than the 667 stuff, I want to put 4gb in.

also is there a better gfx card that will go in it?

Is the CPU FSB the max speed the Ram Will run at?

cheers billy

Check the price of PC5300 and PC6200 - often the faster (and newer) memory will be as cheap if not cheaper.

It's backwards compatible and will run at the lower speed.

cheers for that mate, yea that is why I ask, as I can get the 800mhz one for a fair bit less than the 667mhz ram. its a bit daft really. no probs