Asus Eee 1000h RAM upgrade

ok, my question is simply short and easy... i know that to upgrade the ram here you need to replace the sodimm module, so to get 2gb you need to get one 2gb sodimm ddr2 module. now it's time to choose which type. i understand that using 667mhz module will work ok. the question is, i've got an offer with 800mhz module for the price of 667mhz module. will it work ok? or maybe it won't even start? i believe it should downclock to the required speed but i'm not so sure... (i know that taking higher clocked regular module would net the chance to decrease cas latency - both 667mhz and 800mhz come with the same cl=5, so the 800mhz could probably quite easily work at possibly lower speed but at cl4 thus increasing performance).

 

It's more advantageous to use a higher clock speed since it'll clock down anyways. Since the module is the same price then I would go for the higher clock speed. The motherboard can only max out to what it's designed for.

 

OK, but for same price (and for what would amount to a never perceptible performance bump with the Atom 270) why precisely would one take the chance of incompatibility from a higher clockspeed module?

It doesn't seem possible to me that the Atom would be able to take advantage of any latency difference (if it even existed) in such a way that there would be a perceptible system performance difference - you're not going to be doing any hugely intensive CPU/RAM operations with an Eee Atom anyway where that would even come into play. On a higher end notebook or desktop, different story.... but I would humbly suggest that you stay with spec'd components for the Eee1000.

 

Hmm I think I answered this question on another forum already. But I would stick with the 667 ram only because its possible that the DDR2 800 timings will stick and it will be downclocked to 667 and thus worse performance.

Chances of you noticing it, none. However it would bother me and there is of course the possibility of incompatibility but I would think thats slim to none.

 

mkarwin,

Did you manage to get the 800 ram to work?