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#70299 21-Oct-2010 07:59

Hi,

Am about to pick up a Brother 3040cn colour laser. To get full colour resolution it needs some extra ram.

Some people have used 144 laptop PC100 SODIMM's successfully. My question is:

Will DDR RAM be backward compatible with PC100? PC100 is now more expensive than DDR.

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#394257 21-Oct-2010 09:07

PC100 SODIMM = 144pin. DDR SODIMM = 200pin (DDR3 is 204 pin).

So, no. If you need 144 pin RAM then you're stuck.

Second hand out of an old notebook?

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#394889 22-Oct-2010 21:29

OK. Solved. Kind of. The brother SODIMM (144 pin) slot looks proprietary. The DDR RAM does not fit. PB quoted me $185 incl GST for a Brother 128 MB SODIMM. At that point I gave up and bought the HP CP1515n. Very happy with the quality and no extra RAM required.

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