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Thread Author: lancara Replies: 11
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 Sat 3 Dec 11 11:23 
 RAM upgrade for notebook - lancara
Back again - have an Asus notebook - have run Crucial's scanner widget, and it reports I have 4gb memory in one clip, and have 3 empty clips. Taking bottom panel off only one clip is exposed.

Any ideas where the other alleged empty clips are?
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 Sat 3 Dec 11 12:24 
 RAM upgrade for notebook - Zero
>> Back again - have an Asus notebook - have run Crucial's scanner widget, and it
>> reports I have 4gb memory in one clip, and have 3 empty clips. Taking bottom
>> panel off only one clip is exposed.
>>
>> Any ideas where the other alleged empty clips are?

Notebooks tend not to have 4 sockets, usually one or if you are lucky - two. Your Crucial widget is lying ( as its often prone to do)
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 Sat 3 Dec 11 14:04 
 RAM upgrade for notebook - Hard Cheese
Your notebook probably uses a chipset which is also used in desktops where four slots are available typically. You should howver have two slots and filling the other one with matched memory will not only give you more memory, it will also enable the memory to run dual channel.

Last edited by: Cheddar on Sat 3 Dec 11 at 14:05
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 Sat 3 Dec 11 15:59 
 RAM upgrade for notebook - Zero
>> Your notebook probably uses a chipset which is also used in desktops where four slots
>> are available typically. You should howver have two slots and filling the other one with
>> matched memory will not only give you more memory, it will also enable the memory
>> to run dual channel.

Depends on the chipset.
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 Sat 3 Dec 11 16:28 
 RAM upgrade for notebook - RattleandSmoke
In the real world on a laptop there is probably too many other bottlenecks to get any advantage from dual channel anyway. If you have 4GB why do you need to upgrade? For most people its fine, I have 8GB on my desktop but that is because I use a Ubuntu virtual machine a lot.
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 Sat 3 Dec 11 16:39 
 RAM upgrade for notebook - spamcan61
I don't think we know at this point whether the OP's motherboard or OS support more than 4GB.
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 Sat 3 Dec 11 16:54 
 RAM upgrade for notebook - RattleandSmoke
Thats true :).

Got no real world experience in upgrading laptops beyond 4GB as never need to. I think people forget as well that 4GB is more than enough RAM for the vast majority and the only reason it is now standard is it is so cheap (I pay £9 a stick of 2GB DDR3 Corsair)
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 Sat 3 Dec 11 17:13 
 RAM upgrade for notebook - spamcan61
>> Thats true :).
>>
>> Got no real world experience in upgrading laptops beyond 4GB as never need to. I
>> think people forget as well that 4GB is more than enough RAM for the vast
>> majority and the only reason it is now standard is it is so cheap (I
>> pay £9 a stick of 2GB DDR3 Corsair)
>>
Agreed, unless you're editing HD video or huge multi-layer photos there seems little point.
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 Sat 3 Dec 11 21:59 
 RAM upgrade for notebook - Hard Cheese
>> Got no real world experience in upgrading laptops beyond 4GB as never need to. I
>> think people forget as well that 4GB is more than enough RAM for the vast
>> majority>>

4GB is more than enough for most though dual channel is worthwhile, in that reagrd 2 x 2GB is better than 1 x 4GB.

I have a Sandybridge i5 laptop on Win 7 Pro 64bit, it came with 1 x 4GB stick though I bought two matched 4GB sticks from Crucial to give it 8GB dual channel and sold the supplied stick on eBay. If fairly wizzes along.
Last edited by: Cheddar on Sat 3 Dec 11 at 21:59
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 Sat 3 Dec 11 21:53 
 RAM upgrade for notebook - Hard Cheese

>> I don't think we know at this point whether the OP's motherboard or OS support
>> more than 4GB.
>>

Good point though if it was supplied with 1 x 4Gb it is fairly contemporary so the mobo should support more than 4GB, the key question is, as you say, whether the OS does, needs to be 64bit XP Pro, 64bit Vista or 64Bit Win 7, the former being most unlikely and the latter being the most likely.

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 Sat 3 Dec 11 22:03 
 RAM upgrade for notebook - rtj70
Unless lancer is running a 64 bit version of an operating system, upgrading beyond 4Gb is pointless as 32-bit operating systems won't use it. Although applications written correctly can make use of it but that's normally used on servers for databases or similar.

So what operating system is lancara running?
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 Sun 4 Dec 11 10:56 
 RAM upgrade for notebook - lancara
Running 64-bits Win7 - was trying to future-proof, given Nikon's rumoured next camera release is 36mp, and current TIFF files are now reaching 100mb.
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