Customer reviews for the Crucial 1GB 200pin SODIMM PC2700 DDRRAM Non-Parity

Fitted this 1 GB Stick into my Toshiba Satellite A30 141 Laptop (after having already purchased a 512 MB stick earlier this year) so I now have 1.5 GB DDR ram. It's such an improvement from 768 MB.

I now always play games with Outlook, Photoshop, MSN, and a bunch of other programs running... and I never get any slowdowns.

I will be buying another 1 GB stick SOON! Install as much RAM as your computer can take... it really does make a difference.

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This ram gets REALLY hot. The additional heat caused my laptop to heat up only a little more on the outside. I didn't think much off it, until 9 months later when my laptop died.

I sent it to a mate at Acer, and they found that the heat from so much extra RAM caused the motherboard and graphics card to die.

They had to replace the motherboard, CPU, AND hard disk.
Cost Acer over £500 to repair. You could also see on the inside where the plastic casing started to melt.

Bare in mind I had an Antec Laptop heatsink/fan under the laptop too. Would have died much quicker without it.

Consider getting 2x 512 MB if you want a gigabyte of RAM. Do laptops really need more?

*** ENSURE YOUR LAPTOP CAN HANDLE SUCH A TEMPERATURE INCREASE BEFORE PURCHASING ***

Learn from my mistake.

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