Question about upgrading the ram in the Asus G50VTX2

I am not a laptop wiz and based on what i know it has 4GB DDR2 ram

Would i be able to upgrade to 4GBDDR3 1066Mhz ram with no problems?

And would there be a big difference?

Another thing i want to know is how many ram slots are in the laptop?

 

RAM is limited to the same type, so DDR3 isn't backwards compatible with DDR2. So you're stuck with DDR2 800. There are 2 RAM slots on the bottom of the laptop from what I've seen. And AFAIK no one has tried more than 4GB of RAM, there are theories that it should work because of the chipset, but no one has done it that im aware of

 

But is there a big performance difference between DDR3 and DDR2?

 

From what I have read (I have no hands on experience with DDR3 1066) you won't see any real life differences. You will see differences in benchmarks, but as far as everyday performing goes it will be minor to the point where you can't really tell.

Just think of it as going from DDR2 667 to DDR2 800, because it's not that big of an increase. Sure it's DDR3, but it's only 1066mhz compared to 800mhz. When they add the higher clocked DDR3 is when it will be a different story, because DDR3 1066 is the bottom of the chain as far as DDR3 goes. Just like DDR400 compared to DDR2 533 wasn't that much of a difference.

 

I was wanting to build on an ASUS mobile unit but wanted DDR3. Do they offer any models in DDR3? How well do the DDR2 800 units to w/ 1066FSB CPU w/ the odd divider? DDR1066 is fine for now since the CP and mobos dont claim to support above. although, we see DDR1333 out already so must be a notebook overclockable out there to handle it. I like the 1:2 divider