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    Upgraded RAM to 8GB on my Asus G50vt-X1

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by Stand Alone, Dec 7, 2010.

  1. Stand Alone

    Stand Alone Notebook Enthusiast

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    Picked up this Newegg.com - CORSAIR 8GB (2 x 4GB) 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Laptop Memory Model VS8GSDSKIT800D2 @ my local electronics store. Was alittle worried at first but after some research I pulled the trigger. Bios sees all 8GB of RAM and so far so good. I know alot of people who still have the G50's that they purchased at Best Buy may not know this as I wasn't able to track down any info when I was looking into it. So I figured I would throw this out there so they can give it a try.
     
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    Hey I am thinking about doing the same thing. Although I can't find much info on it either. I have the laptop revision that came out right after yours.
     
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    Should work no problem as the mother board is the same. The X-5 had a very small refresh to what was already an awsome deal at the time they were released.
     
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    that's great... off topic question for you: how difficult was it to upgrade from Vista to Windows 7 on this rig??.. did you need new drivers ??

    thanks much
     
    Mike_Toth, Dec 8, 2010
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    It was actually really easy for me. The vista drivers transfers over in win7 but once the OS changes in Win7 you cant download them from before. The Asus suppoert website has all the Win7 drivers and patches if you are worried anyways. I

    I switched to Win7 then installed all the updated drivers for Win7 from ASUS support. It is quite easy.
     
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    I Picked up pretty much all the drivers for Win 7 from the Asus site with the exception of a few like the GPU driver I picked up from Nvidia's site. I wouldn't transfer to much from Win Vista as not all Vista Drivers are the same.
     
    Stand Alone, Dec 9, 2010
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