I was wondering if anyone knew how to find out what kind of ram would be compatible with the gateway amd athlon model no. 1400cs computer. I acquired this computer from a friend who bought a newer computer, but he took the ram card out of the slot. If anyone could help me it would be greatly appreciated. thanks.

I'm 99% certain it'd be SDRam, but look @ the RAM slots... does it have 1 OR 2 keyways? (keyways prevent ram being installed backwards)

SDR has 2 such keyways
DDR has but only 1

Here's a guide for Memory modules old -> new @ THG

Good luck!

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Originally posted by: jkrue
I was wondering if anyone knew how to find out what kind of ram would be compatible with the gateway amd athlon model no. 1400cs computer. I acquired this computer from a friend who bought a newer computer, but he took the ram card out of the slot. If anyone could help me it would be greatly appreciated. thanks.

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Well there were 2 Gateway models that I seen (a Looong time ago) One was the 1400CS w/ a Pentium 4 1.4ghz and the other was a 1400CL with the 1.4ghz AMD cpu. The AMD version used PC-133 ram and the Pentium version used PC 800 RDRAM.

The Pentium version came with a TNT2 M64 card and the AMD version came with a Radeon VE card.

The AMD version performed better than the Pentium due to the card (and cpu of course )

But the easiest way to check the ram is as tazwegion stated.


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