Maximum ram size for 5672 (4gb possible?)

Does anyone know if the laptop will support 2gb sodimms (maximum of 4gb)? Would this require a bios revision? Thinking about upgrading to 2gb, but will wait if there's a chance it will support 4gb later on.
Thanks.

 

You would need at least a bios upgrade, aside from that, 4gb would probably be overkill especially for an otherwise midrange laptop like the Aspire 5672.

 

Not unless he puts on Vista

 

I have no idea if the HW supports 4g sry.

 

on my 5672 i've 2 G Ram. no problem at all. i've the latest bios from the ftp (234 i think)

 

at least Everest 3.50 tells that this laptop can use 4 gb of ram

 

the 5102 Turion X2 notebook supports 4GB. I only have 512mb on it though. Vista uses as much memory as you can install supposedly to cache files in RAM instead of Harddrive. But I have a program that does the same thing for XP. And it works pretty well.

 

Vista's exactly the reason I was asking. Anandtech just posted a Vista performance guide ( http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=2917), and interestingly enough found that 3gb was a better sweet spot than the 2gb we've been used to with XP.
Sisoft Sandra 11b seems to think the max installable ram for this machine is 4gb. Hmm... maybe once 2gb sticks are mainstream and I can find someone who won't charge me a restocking fee....

 

hey i was wondering if this ram would work for 5672. might get this. is it a good deal? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820231116
thanks

 

seems that way, go for it

 

Current notebook motherboards don't support more than 3GB so that's the max. you can upgrade to. Even if you stick in 4GB, it will recognize only 3.

Sonoma, the next Intel mobile platform to be released real soon now is going to support 4GB.

 

3's better than 2

I was curious about that myself because specs when I bought my notebook said 2 GB max, but the System Information in Acer eSettings - Memory says it will support 4 (whether or not it's effectively 3). That should be a reliable source, no?

 

UPDATE: I asked Acer customer support about this and here was their reply:

"There is no BIOS update planned to expand the amount of addressible memory in the Aspire 5670 line. Acer Europe is a separate division of a regional company and as such releases BIOS based on their chipset revisions, which differ from those used for Acer America. As such, that information is not available. I hope this clarifies.
Regards,
Acer Online Support Team"

So this brings up two questions to me:
1) Why do all system information programs insisit that the max installable on this machine is 4gb?
2) What chipset revisions does this note refer to, and how do we know the new bioses(sp?) on the European site are appropriate for our machines (in the US)?

 

So.........has anyone tried upgrading to 4GB? I would like to upgrade to 4GB myself. Crucial website also says that this laptop can handle 4GB. Even if the system only sees 3 - 3.5 GB, that's fine with me. Please let us know if you've tried it and what the results are/were. Thanks.

 

I currently have 4gb (2 x 2gb) on my 5672, no problems at all. XP will only see 3gb.

 

Cool, thanks for the reply.

 

Yup I second 3 Gig i used to have that model and that all picked up with lastest bios still ran pretty great after cpu upgrade and that

It will take 4 gig but will only address 3.5

 

me too got 4 gb, running vista, recognizes as 3 gb ram!!

 

You can use 4GB, but your OS needs to be 64-bit, that means, your processor too!

Btw, WinXP SP3 says now "Physical Address Extension" on 32-bit, that might be 4GB, but is unconfirmed.

Edit: YES, it can support 4GB on WinXP too (32-bit):
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAEdrv.mspx

Gradius

 

Can anyone with 4GB installed that was only seeing 3GB confirm or deny whether the results changed with SP3?

 

SP2 and SP3 do not change the fact that windows xp 32 bit can only allocate 3.2XXXXgb of memory total for the system.

PAE is buggy as hell btw, avoid it at all costs.

 

I installed the 4GB of ram and i'm running Vista Home Premium. It see's all 4GBs.

 

What part of a 32bit OS don't you get InDiSent?

 

I'm not sure i like your tone. I'm telling you that I installed Vista Home Premium and It see's all 4GBs.

Now i am running Windows 7 Beta full time for a few months now and it also sees the entire 4GB.

I understand that 32bit O/S doesn't support 4gb of ram. However, i'm reporting what the laptop tells me. It sees all 4GB of RAM.

 

This "tone" you speak of is the obvious button my friend.

I love how you resurrect a 6 month old thread to tell me something we already know. And please remember this entire time we were speaking of Windows XP, not Vista or Windows 7. But since you went down that road I'll "re-answer" your question. Just because you can "see" the 4 gig's of memory does not mean that Windows can utilize it - http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=34&threadid=2269558 . Any 32 bit operating system will be capped at 3.XX gig's of memory utilization.

You can't use more than that on a 32 bit architecture. Just because you can see it doesn't mean it's available.


/rant