Compal FL92 works with 8Gb RAM

To anyone needing to work with more than 4Gb, I just bought 2 of GSkill's 4Gb modules (F2-5300CL5S-4GBSQ): the FL92 recognizes the full 8Gb RAM; and RAM test (vista's memtest) is flawless.
Best regards from Portugal.

 

Good news, can u post some screenshot of CPUZ?

 

Hope this helps...

 

Are you serious? I thought the chipset maxed out at 4 GB. So, I take this will work with the IFL90 as well?

This looks very promising. Thanks for the information.

 

Can u also make a pic of Windows task manager -> performance? Dono how much is really available for system to use. Thanks~~

 

i noticed me and solon have the same chipset. so i wonder if i can do this on my Fujitsu N6470 i have a chipset PM965

 

The only thing that I find odd is that Intel listed the maximum RAM at 4 GB for the PM965 chipset. Are you sure that it's actually able to use 8 GB, or just detect it?

Hmm, after a little reading, it seems that the data sheet isn't correct. Apparently, there are numerous threads about 8 GB of RAM on a PM965 chipset (like this one).

 

I believe there's other laptops with the PM965 chipset and 8Gb RAM out there - that's why I bought 8Gb in the first place.
Mind you, if you want you'll need just one 64bit application to take all the 8Gb RAM; or several 32bit applications opened at the same time. Obviously, in a x64 OS.

 

I've been told by numerous people that there was no way PM965 could support more than 4 GB. I know you'll need to go 64 bit if you want any chance of success. So that's why I wasn't sure. I also heard that some BIOS's didn't allow more than 4 GB.

Anyway, I'll keep looking into this, but for sure it seems that these Compal models do support 8 GB.

Anyway, thanks a lot for the task manager screenshot. Greatly appreciated.

Oh, one more thing, if you don't mind. What BIOS version are you using?

+Rep

 

Bios is 1.18. You can see that and other details in the image attached in my other post (cpuz.jpg). I'm very pleased with the difference between 4Gb an 8Gb in Vista mainly because I work with - really - large format photographs and this OS is very memory demanding.

 

Ah, sorry, I overlooked that.

Glad to see 8 GB is helping you. I pretty much assumed you were either working with large photographs or 3D modeling.

Anyhow, thanks again. It's great to know that I can go up to 8 GB if there's ever the need.

 

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$330!!!
My god~~~~

 

I found the best price in Europe right here.
Kingston also has 4Gb SO-DIMMs and 8Gb kits with exactly the same specs but the price is x4 higher!?
A little bit off topic: I guess these "tech enterprises" always get their kicks with commercial speculation; "it's new tech, let's rip-off the customers". It's really unethical but people actually seem to like buying stuff for 500 euros that is worth 50 after a few months... where is this world coming to?
Use your money wisely and invest in intellectual property instead. <- use this has a signature if you like.

 

I've learned sometime while playing airbiz:
when you are the only one offering something and you know that there are people who are going to buy what you offer no matter what: charge them as much as you can, then when competition start appearing start the pricing war.

 

Wow, guys, check out this one Kingston 4GB 667MHz DDR2 Low-Latency CL4 (4-4-4-12) . Nice! And that is about 75 euro.

 

I want this: HyperX SO-DIMM Kit 4GB PC2-6400U CL4-4-4-12 (DDR2-800) (KHX6400S2ULK2/4G), can run 667@CL3 and 800@CL4, but too expensive.....

 

Thanks for the info.. Thats actually something I have been looking into for a short time but haven't gone ahead and bought anything yet due to the fact I was too lazy to look into if it was worth it


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Is iit worth it? What is the memory usage when idling?

 

For the median user, it is a complete waste. The memory usage when completely idle is around 1GB. There are very few applications that are RAM-intensive and in fact most cannot address more than 2GB even if you intentionally try to make them do it. There are some things that do hog RAM (photography, video, quality attempts at modeling of things with real-life geometries, etc.), but if you are doing something like that, you'd know it.

I would much rather have 4GB of RAM clocked 800MHz, but the chipset doesn't support it.

 

Actually, and after using 8Gb for sometime now, I truly recommend it for almost any user.
Even though I don't use Readyboost or Pagefile or Superfetch nor even Prefetch, Vista caches everything I open to memory (software, file copy, a file opened in a program, etc) so, you'll always 8Gb of data ready for IMMEDIATELY use and it won't use the hard drive a second time for that.
More: in these days I'm pretty sure using ~200euros in 8Gb RAM is a lot better than wasting ~500 euros in a 80Gb SSD - unless you restart your computer every 30 minutes...

On the other hand, the value for money and the memory difference between 667, 800, even 1000Mhz is a hype! I believe we are all humans here, right...? Well, things are just to fast and you just don't care if it takes 0,5 second or 0,4 second to open something. Really, I'd get 8Gb even if it was 333Mhz.

In the end you just have to now how much software and files you use during one day of work (or play or whatever you do). Just add it up and see if pays to have 8Gb.

 

Its cool that a t9500 works in your rig.

 

It doesn't on yours?