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    2GB SO-DIMM PC2-5300 memory upgrade

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by emperor, Jun 5, 2007.

  1. emperor

    emperor Notebook Geek

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    In case you are interested to find out how exactly fast your laptop would be with a pair of those new babies, check this review ;)
     
    emperor, Jun 5, 2007
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    dietcokefiend DietGreenTeaFiend

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    I'm sorry but this is one of the funniest comparison pictures I have seen that deal with benchmarks. It looks like something is so faster, and its actually 1 point on a scale between 1-2000

    [​IMG]
     
    dietcokefiend, Jun 5, 2007
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  3. swarmer

    swarmer beep beep

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    lol... thanks for pointing that out... I was looking at the graph and thinking: wow, that's a pretty big difference.
     
    swarmer, Jun 5, 2007
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  4. emperor

    emperor Notebook Geek

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    I assume thats how Excel decides to plot it out :)
     
    emperor, Jun 7, 2007
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    Hello- Notebook Consultant

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    Running dual channel, I can't see why a DDR667 2x2gb would be faster than 2x1gb but I guess that's why it isn't even on the list. From the results I'd have to say that 3dmark06 is not memory intensive as it gives almost identical results (off by 1-2 points) from 1-4gb for single or dual channel which is to be expected.
     
    Hello-, Jun 7, 2007
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  6. ViciousXUSMC

    ViciousXUSMC Master Viking NBR Reviewer

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    And so this confirms what I have been saying about 4gb being pointless in a notebook :p

    Sorry for you people who droped the money for 4gb of ram.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Jun 7, 2007
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  7. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    No, as time progresses more programs WILL need more memory. I have already encountered at least two specific situations in which I actually could have benefited from 4GB RAM: one of which running Vista and XP at the same time via virtualization.

    3dMark is GPU limited, so those results mean PHOOEY. It says nothing about the usefulness of 4GB.
     
    Greg, Jun 7, 2007
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    Dell_6400_fan Notebook Consultant

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    I'd have to agree with you. If RAM were really dirt cheap and my PC could handle it, I'd probably have gotten 8GB for my laptop.

    Just for the virtualization and future apps. I could dedicate 2GB to 3 separate OS's and still keep 2GB for my main O/S. Ie. I'm running XP and Ubuntu via VMWare on my Vista Premium machine. It works, but not as well as I'd like as I can only dedicate 512MB ram to each VM session and 1GB to Vista (anything less would be uncivilized for Vista).
     
    Dell_6400_fan, Jun 7, 2007
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  9. ViciousXUSMC

    ViciousXUSMC Master Viking NBR Reviewer

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    Hmm you two are the first I have ever run into to run more than one OS at the same time...

    I hear VMWare is just buggy and not very efficant, so dont blame that completely on your memory
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Jun 7, 2007
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  10. lemur

    lemur Emperor of Lemurs

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    Add a third name to your list of people who run more than one OS a the same time. My primary OS is Linux and I run XP under qemu.
     
    lemur, Jun 7, 2007
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    I'd love to have 12gb of ram,

    3gb ram
    3gb ramdisk for pagefile
    6gb ramdisk for a game to load at super blazing speed.
     
    Hello-, Jun 7, 2007
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