What happens if I use a 2GB 1066 from my 7805u for my G73?

I was just thinking I could cannibalize my old gaming laptop because I don't use it for anything but some internet use. It has 1066MHz C7 and my G73's RAM is 1333 C9

Also, I have the ASUS DC overclock, bringing the RAM to run @ a bit over 1400MHz.


Would the 2GB run at current speeds? ...Safely?

Or will the 6GB downclock to 1066? At C7 or C9?

Should I bother? [I just use it for gaming]

 

It will downclock to the lower speed.
It is not going to give you any performance gain, maybe even a decrease.
but if you decide to use the 1066 memory it will give you more OC room, and lower latency

 

Its usually not a wise idea to use different sodimm modules (different brand or different clocks/timings), becouse you can run into compatibility problems, but its up to you if you want to try.
And theres a seperate subforum for the Asus Gaming series, so please use that to post G73JH related topics.

 

1.) I have not found evidence yet that anything over 4gb increases frame rate at the resolutions we're working with, especially when even high end laptop video cards are comparatively wimpy to their desktop counterparts.
2.) I have found that by increase bandwidth of memory (Mhz) My cpu score goes up, and GPU score does not change. FPS in games remains fairly unchanged
3.) I have found that by decreasing timings of memory CPU score remains the same and GPU score goes up. FPS in games increases slightly, but nothing earth shattering unless you were on the edge of playability already.

so in other words, I would leave it alone.

In my experiance with my UL50vt going to 8 gb of ram which did not support the FSB that my previous 4 gb did caused a 10 fps reduction in scII, which is heavily dependent on CPU (like all bliz games i've played, graphics are pretty blah but there is a lot of cpu crunching going on in the bg because they are leaning on a 10+year old game engine and making it jump through hoops of fire). If I were doing something where I was slinging around more heavyweight files like video editing, I might be more concerned with memory capacity.

I'd say GPU and CPU speed, and even latency effect your gaming far more than memory capacity after 4gb.

 

Benchmark Results: 3D & Game Benchmarks : Core i7 Memory Scaling: From DDR3-800 to DDR3-1600


The L4d test makes it pretty clear, same speed, faster timings > slower timings

if you mix and match you will definitely lower your timings.