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    Adding/upgrading RAM

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by jooooeee, Jan 3, 2011.

  1. jooooeee

    jooooeee Stealth in disguise

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    Okay, so I've been thinking of adding more RAM to my laptop lately, I do a lot of multitasking and it has been slowing down slowly over time, now it is getting slower than I want.

    So my question is do you guys think I could benefit from adding RAM? I have 4GB DDR2 677

    Second question I'm 99% sure I couldn't jump to DDR3 (correct me if I'm wrong) but could I use DDR2 800?
     
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  2. Judicator

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    I can't speak as to whether or not you'd benefit, but the answers to your last 2 questions are yes, you cannot jump to DDR3 (204 pins instead of the 200 pins on DDR2), and yes, you can use DDR2 800 (which will downclock to 677 speeds).
     
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  3. sgogeta4

    sgogeta4 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    What are you system specs? Heavy multitasking should still be fine with 4GB, but it depends on what programs you're running too. If your system has DDR2, you cannot upgrade to DDR3. It might support DDR2-800, but the increased speed will yield no benefit since it's mostly marketing (your memory bandwidth is rarely, if ever, the limiting factor).
     
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  4. jooooeee

    jooooeee Stealth in disguise

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    Lenovo ThinkPad T61p
    CPU: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor T9300 (2.5GHz 800MHz 6MBL2)
    OS: Genuine Windows 7 professorial 64bit
    GPU: NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M (256MB Open GL)
    Memory: 4GB PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz SODIMM Memory (2 DIMM)
    Hard Drive: 500GB Hard Disk Drive, 7200rpm
    Turbo Memory: Intel Turbo Memory 1GB

    I usually browser the internet with 10+ tabs, iTunes, word, Photoshop, gaming, watching movies
     
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    Your memory speed maxes out at DDR2-667. I multitask with similar programs and don't find even 3GB to be a bottleneck majority of times. Maybe your Windows is bloated and you need a reformat.
     
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