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    Aspire 6390g 8gb...really?!

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by dickiederson, Mar 9, 2012.

  1. dickiederson

    dickiederson Newbie

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    Hi!
    This is my first post here..sorry its a begging one!

    I have had my Acer Aspire 6930g for a few years and have upgraded it with 4gb ram, win 7x64 and a second HDD.

    I'm still pretty happy with it but I wonder if I could squeeze a bit more performance out?

    I mostly use Photoshop and lightroom, sometimes with quite big files so I feel like I could use more ram.

    I've seen 4gb listed as the maximum supported but I've also seen comments and heard rumours that 8gb IS POSSIBLE!!

    So....is it?

    And if so....would it be worth it for me?!

    And if so, so....exactly which bits do I need?! Where would be best to buy in the UK, Aria? I can spin a screwdriver and so on but I'm not very clued up on all the numbers and compatability issues!

    Thanks guys!

    (maybe I'm just feeling a bit jealous of my girlfriend's macbook pro...it's not much better on paper than my 6930g....but it sure is pretty...!)

    Dickie
     
    dickiederson, Mar 9, 2012
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    hugphot Newbie

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    A word of warning here: I'm trying to do the same with my 7730 which has the GM45 chipset. The chipset will support DDR3 up to 8GB so I ordered some which arrived today. When I opened up the back of the laptop to fit the DDR3 I found that DDR2 and DDR3 use different connectors which are NOT cross compatible. Your best bet is to run CPU-Z then click on the 'memory' tab to see what you have fitted (DDR2 or 3) - if you find that your chipset (visible on the 'mainboard' tab of CPU-Z) will support 8GB and that you have DDR2, you can probably still do it but it'll just cost a lot more than DDR3 (about £160 as opposed to £32)
     
    hugphot, Mar 10, 2012
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