hardware compatible?

hi,

are there any websites that would tell you what hardware is compatible with your computer. like ram upgrades stuff like that

kinda like Crucial Technology website, only i want to know the name of the hardware part it's number and characteristics. not just that's it compatible, and buy button.

Is there a better way to find out what's compatible with your hardware. besides local computer shop and contacting the manufacturer.

if you could help

thank you

Not really. The world isn't a perfet place. You have two choices: the manafacturer of your PC (If you didn't build it) or the manafacturer of the upgrade.

there's crucial then there have to be others.

Well yeah, but it's going to depend upon the manafacturer... crucial chooses to include compatibility info like some others, while most don't.

but they don't tell you wtf the part is.

choose brand, choose model

max you can get is this, but we don't got it, here are some options.

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item ------- price ----- buy ---- info
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click info , it tells you "this item is compatible with this model of this brand. aaaaah

jesus that's so pointless. i mean yea it's good for their business. but their crap is too expensive. i guess they know that, so they don't want people go looking up the things on newegg.

my manufacturer is emachines all they tell you is . Here's a link to our shop. we only have 119 items in there. gooodluck finding the right ram.

how do you find what's compatible with your hardware?

Usually "compatibility" is an issue of the following components:

1. which CPU for your mainboard?
2. which RAM for your mainboard/CPU combination
3. which RAM with which other RAM.
4. which graphics card for which mainboard

For #1, read the mainboard´s manual. If you don´t have it, see on the mainboard manufacturer´s homepage, they usually have PDFs there.
2. Again, read this in the mainboard manual.
3. never mix different types of RAM, better don´t even mix different brands. Again, most mainboard manuals have a list of RAM tested with this board.
4. depends on the slot. (PCI, AGP2x, 4x, 8x). But usually agp graphics cards are downward compatible (i.e. an 8x will work in a 4x slot but will work slower then). Not all cards can do that! Read the graphics card´s manual or on the manufacturer´s homepage

First you should find out what type of CPU and its speed you have (e.g. a PIII866 running on 6.5 x 133 Mhz, => most likely you´ll need PC133 RAM). Then the mainboard. Most mainboards have the manufacturer info and type number printed on them. You might have to take it out for reading that

PS: The "manufacturer" of your PC aka the OEM (the people that buy the single parts and put them together) is usually no big help...

haha you just told me how to build a computer. who needs crucial now.

for past few days i learned that damn and ram rhyme.

as soon as i return the ram i bought. i'll start looking for things.

thanks a lot for clearning things up