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    Have you tried more than 4 gigs of ram?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by dkwhite, Sep 16, 2008.

  1. dkwhite

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    Just wondering if anyone has tried putting in more than 4 gigs of ram on their notebooks. Supposedly the max is 4, I'm just wondering if that is really the case or not.
     
    dkwhite, Sep 16, 2008
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    Newer notebooks such as the Dell Precisions/Latitudes as well as HP's Elitebooks offer expansion up to 8GB.
     
    blindpan, Sep 16, 2008
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    on of our members put 6gb in dell xps 1530
     
    Xirurg, Sep 16, 2008
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  4. Guntraitor Sagara

    Guntraitor Sagara Notebook Evangelist

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    could that be possible in the current HP laptops we were having? mine only supports DDR2's :p
     
    Guntraitor Sagara, Sep 16, 2008
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    The new dv5t that ive got supports up to 8gb of ram. I would never have a need for that much. At least not untill itunes 9 lol.
     
    K1LL4J0L0K14, Sep 16, 2008
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    Yes - like the dv5 series, the dv7 supports up to 8 GB of RAM. You would have to put 2 x 4 GB memory to achieve this configuration.
     
    justinkw1, Sep 16, 2008
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    ^ wow, that's a tempting price. but, at max, i've personally used like 2.9-3.0 gb ram. i dont think i can even think of things to run that would make my system use 8gb of ram...

    but you'd definitely be popular...... yo, did you hear, _____insert_your_name_here_____ has 8gb ram! insanity!
     
    timesquaredesi, Sep 16, 2008
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    lol you provide the ram and ill provide the guinea pig. :)

    The newegg offer has PC2-5300 versus PC2-6400 which runs at a faster 800.
     
    Infamous22, Sep 16, 2008
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    Won't matter in a Santa Rosa based notebook (ICH8M). It'll downclock to 667.mhz.
     
    2.0, Sep 16, 2008
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  14. mattmcss

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    Don't our DV7T's have montevina ?
     
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    Yes. ICH9M so you can take advantage of the 800Mhz.
     
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    Yes the DV7T's are on the Centrino 2 platform (aka Montevina)

    The chipset even supports the newer DDR3 (just not supported in the DV7t)

    "RAM support for DDR2-667, DDR2-800, DDR3-800, DDR3-1066 SO-DIMM"
     
    CrashConrad, Sep 16, 2008
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    Cool, I might have to try 6 gigs eventually when prices come down a little more.
     
    dkwhite, Sep 16, 2008
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    Only downside is that RAM is slow at DDR2-667. These laptops can take up to DDR2-800, so you might be adding extra capacity (which you will probably never use) but you will also be slowing down the system with the slower RAM.
     
    jleonard711, Sep 19, 2008
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