Not believing the speed of doing anything on my computer and all my friends suggesting buying a new one. The simple fix of upgrading my RAM from 512MB to 2 GB on my Dell 4700 was like night and day at minimal cost.
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4GB
256MB
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PC2-3200
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Intel 915G
Your Dell OptiPlex uses PC2-3200 type memory.
Your Dell OptiPlex can support up to 4GB of memory. For optimal performance install the maximum amount of memory in each socket.
Your system comes standard with 256MB of RAM. If you have upgraded your system then you may have a different amount.
A bank is a group of memory sockets. A socket is where a memory module is inserted. A bank can have one or more sockets.
One or more of the sockets in your system is already filled with memory. When you upgrade your system, you can either add memory to one of the open sockets and/or remove memory from a filled socket and replace it with a higher capacity memory module.
Your Dell OptiPlex GX280 (Small Desktop) has 2 banks of 2 sockets each for a total of 4 memory sockets.
*We recommend you upgrade your computer to the latest BIOS revision prior to upgrading your memory.
Although the BIOS will address 4GB of memory, only 3GB can be utilized by the system.
Modules must be purchased and installed in pairs for dual channel performance.
ETC tests each RAM module to ensure compatiblity with your Dell system. The memory modules listed above are guaranteed to work in your Dell OptiPlex GX280 (Small Desktop).
fetch
Date: 1/23/2012
San Diego
Personal User
Products Reviewed: 1
Not believing the speed of doing anything on my computer and all my friends suggesting buying a new one. The simple fix of upgrading my RAM from 512MB to 2 GB on my Dell 4700 was like night and day at minimal cost.
Reboot
Date: 10/19/2011
Statesboro, GA
Business User
When you run a small biz, there's no need to keep inventory. I entrust that to Amazon. So when it came time to upgrade a customer, I shopped them, and they shopped Edge Tech Corp. What I needed was easy to find, competitively priced, and shipped the same day. As a result, I saved my customer money, and made them happier faster! Edge Tech, you're my new inventory warehouse! Thanks so much.
bert
Date: 8/9/2011
norwood, ma
Personal User
Products Reviewed: 1
Purchased two 1 GB memory boards for my Dell GX620 desktop computer. Installing was easy and after updating the CMOS as part of the next boot up, everything is working great. I would recommend this part for anyone wanting to upgrade the memory on their Dell desktop.
LazyWaffle
Date: 7/8/2011
WhoWantsToKnow, ZZ
Personal User
Products Reviewed: 1
I was simply astounded by how much difference a gigabyte of memory can make in a computer! (So obviously two gigs were even better) A simple installation and suddenly everything was running much faster! (Claim has not been tested) Although you may not think you need this memory now, sooner or later whatever you have will fall just a bit short of gaming standards, so if your computer is running too slow, or you just need an extra burst of power, heed my words and increase your memory. Unless your computer has already maxed out its memory, in which case good luck speeding up. Works best in packs of two.
bill
Date: 6/18/2011
arizona
Personal User
this item works fine in my computer. the web site was easy to understand and complete my purchase with confidence.
colbyr
Date: 2/18/2011
Stephenville
IT Professional
Products Reviewed: 1
Found the exact RAM I needed fast and easy. VERY well priced and fast shipping. Couldn't ask for a better deal. I have many more computers that will be upgraded later on and I WILL buy this RAM for them.
assistant
Date: 1/5/2011
United States
Business User
Order was in stock, delivered timely and exactly what we needed....and, at a lower price than a local company.
Shark40
Date: 12/8/2010
Berkeley, CA
Personal User
Products Reviewed: 1
Has helped my computer work faster.
Brad Mattscheck
Date: 7/6/2010
Milford
Personal User
I was more than pleased with the ordering, check-out and shipping performance of this vendor. I am tickled pink with the performance of my PC with the addition of Edge Tech memory modules. They fit like a glove and are working flawlessly. My PC is very .....
Raymund Nolan
Date: 7/6/2010
Cary
Business User
The product showed up a day late. That said the RAM chips worked as expected.
Memory or RAM is a piece of hardware in your computer that holds software applications that you are working on. It serves as temporary working space between your computer’s hard drive and CPU.
Adding memory will improve your computer’s performance. Specifically, it will speed up opening new applications, running multiple applications at once, and switching between software applications (multi-tasking).
One task that additional memory speeds up is opening a new software application. Let’s take this as an example. When you open a new application on your computer, your computer’s CPU fetches the application from the hard drive and stores it in RAM memory. It stores it in RAM because RAM is very fast relative to the hard drive. When RAM gets full, and you open a new application then the CPU needs to kick out one of your open applications, put it back on the slow hard drive, fetch the new application from the hard drive, and place the new application in RAM. Basically, it swaps the applications.
This game of swapping wastes time. Ideally, your computer could have an infinite amount of RAM. Then your CPU would fetch an application once from the hard drive, save it into RAM, and never need to kick out another application. There is no such thing as infinite RAM, but you can max out the RAM on your computer by adding the maximum amount of memory to each socket.
To max out your RAM memory, add the maximum amount of memory to each memory socket. To find out how much RAM each socket can support, divide the system maximum RAM amount by the total number of sockets in your system.
For example, if your system maximum RAM is 2GB, and your system has 2 total sockets then the maximum amount each socket can support is 1GB. If one of the sockets is already filled then you can always remove the existing module and replace it with a higher capacity module.
No. The 1975 Magnusson-Moss Act prevents OEM manufacturers from disqualifying a warranty when 3rd party memory is used. For more details, please see the Magnuson-Moss Act.
Memory speed refers to the amount of time that memory (RAM) takes to put data into its memory or send it out. Your device’s memory will have an upper limit on the speed at which it can operate.
A memory kit is a number of memory modules sold as a unit or a kit. For example, a 1GB memory kit will contain two 512MB modules. This is written as (2x512MB).
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