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    PC5400 RAM on W3J

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by mew1838, Sep 4, 2007.

  1. mew1838

    mew1838 Team Teal

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    I'm thinking of putting in a stick of PC5400 1gb stick into my stock W3J, will the rams work in dual channel?

    Thanks.
     
    mew1838, Sep 4, 2007
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    ClearSkies Well no, I'm still here..

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    It will probably downclock to 533 to match your other existing stick (you didn't say you were replacing everything). Dual channel in notebooks provides a negligible performance boost, so I wouldn't worry about matching it.
     
    ClearSkies, Sep 4, 2007
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    actually my other stick is 667Mhz too.
     
    mew1838, Sep 5, 2007
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    Brainonska511 Notebook Consultant

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    PC5300/PC5400 are the same thing. Just a marketing term.

    As far as dual-channel, it doesn't matter on a laptop. The one stick of RAM already has more than enough bandwidth for the FSB. You're better off just focusing on the amount of RAM that you want to have, not on whether it will stay dual-channel. For the record: I have assymetric dual-channel running since I'm running a 512MB stick and a 2GB stick (I didn't feel like removing my keyboard to change a stick of RAM).
     
    Brainonska511, Sep 5, 2007
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