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You CAN'T upgrade the ram of your video card !
You can only upgrade the system ram (i think you have 2GB now) and you can upgrade the hard drive (like to a 7200 RPM drive)
I'm gone upgrade my G1S to a Hitachi 7K200 160GB soon AND I'm gone upgrade my ram to 3 or 4 GB (you need vista x64 if you want 4GB ram)
how will the dual channel be affected if you use unmatched pairs, obviously you will have a 1gb and a 2gb stick in there, i have built tons of computers but never delt with this uneven amount before, was thinking of doing the same, but i thought it better to just do 2x 2gb and have the 3gb limit be in effect, or recognized.
Dual channel really makes a performance difference in desktop systems only. In notebooks the delta is less than 1-2%, which will only (maybe) show up in benchmarks, but not in real-life distinction.
Even if you go with 4GB (with all the attendant problems this can cause in Asus systems - see multiple reports around here) the system isn't going to properly address the upper reaches of the 4th GB anyway, so you're still running at an asymmetric amount.
i agree, but wanted to see what other people have done with their notebooks. i am very experienced with desktop systems and i have an old amd 2800 xp or 3200xp running at -4 celsius or about 22f which i can push to almost 3ghz. i machined my own water jacket and used a medical chiller or refrigerant unit to cool my water outside the computer, then i wrote a simple program to monitor temps in dos, and it switches on and off the cooler to maintain a regulated temp of up to -10 c. 0 is easy to maintain. i have no problems pushing the cpu from 2.0 ghz to almost 3ghz as far as i know that's the most i have heard of. with water. later
Umm that all sounds pretty high tech. All I've done to mine is added more ram and replaced the measly 160gb hard drive with a 250gb one. What I would like to do is be able to add the TV tuner to mine, but I don't think it's possible.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
