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    help: Upgrading latitude d630 to 1.5gb, is it ok?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Lawrence, Jul 29, 2007.

  1. Lawrence

    Lawrence Notebook Evangelist

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    two weeks ago i added 500mb to a vacant slot in my laptop.
    It is a 1gb memory in slot 1 and 500mb in slot 2.
    my laptop memory is DDR2-667mhz
    is it ok? Is it possible that it will damage the other memory? i heard about dual channel and you should put same amount of memory on it (1gb,1gb)...
    Please help...Also please give some info/explanation about upgrading memory ang why it should be the same and if it is alright.

    Thank you very much!
     
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    It is fine! you will not hurt anything! Running matching sticks just ensures it will run in dual channel (if MoBo supports) the worst that is going to happen is it will not be as fast as it could!

    If you run memory of different speeds or latency it always runs at the slowest. Many threads on dual channel that will do better than I can right now. go to search in upper right and type "dual channel"
     
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  3. Lawrence

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    Thank you for the information!

    I read all of the posts regarding dual channel...informations about it.

    I think now It doesnt matter if the amount of your laptop memory is the same or not because of the Asynch. Dual channel feature of Intel than Synch. Dual Channel. It is so small that it becomes negligible.

    I also run cpu-z and it says it is running in Dual channel even if it is not the same(1+.5).

    Again thank you for the "dual channel keyword"!
     
    Lawrence, Jul 29, 2007
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