Packard Bell upgrade advice

[UrBaN963]

Hi guys,

So a friend wants to upgrade their laptop.

It's a Packard Bell Easynote MS2290 (Easynote LM85).

It has 4GB DDR3-1066 RAM (supports up to 8GB). Has 2 RAM slots, so 2x4GB would be the way to go.

According to Crucial I can upgrade to DDR3-1600

According to Mrmemory The upgrade path is DDR3-1066.

Obviously DDR3-1600 would be preferable as it's faster and cheaper. But I don't want to buy and then have it not work and I don't have any DDR3-1600 laptop RAM to test with.

The issue is I haven't been able to find out exact motherboard specs and supported memory speeds.

Also, the laptop has 500GB HDD and an empty mSata slot. Would like to pop an mSata in there for the OS and such. Coupled with extra memory, should add some decent life to the lappie. Anything I'm missing here?

Perhaps one of you have stronger Google Fu me?

 

[Exaelea]

Usually faster ram will de-clock to what the board supports or if you leave the current one it that's slower then the second module will de-clock to match the speed of the slower module, but you get the odd board that doesn't post if faster ram is in that's unsupported.

Easiest way to test if you don't have access to a ddr3 1600 chip.. order from takealot. If it doesn't work, send it back. They don't ask for blood and urine samples when returning items and they don't charge you for the return costs.