8Gb kit come soon?

Just found Kinston has already made this monster to market, but price......

 

Would the D901C's BIOS support 8GB?

 

Why in gods name you will need 8GB of system RAM?

4GBs is more than enough...



Running XP x64 - 3500MB free, 500MB(14%) used

 

Wait and see

You're using 500MB with probably several progs open? If you use a 901 as a workstation or for video editing/encoding/pro audio etc then 8GB can be very helpful indeed. Quite a few of our 901 owners have asked about 8GB as they use them partially for work with progs that will benefit from the extra RAM.

 

Professionally I use very demanding RAM programs, like MultiSIM... On some projects with huge complex circuits, it can eat 3GB like eating gums... but 4GB it´s enough... there is always the page file... yes it´s much more slower, but on these programs there is not to much impact. that with some VMs running on the background it´s still enought...

That 500MBs was the XP x64 + PS + Firefox + Opera + uTorrent D ) + MultiSIM... if it was on Vista x64 was like 1200MB with tweaks on the services.

But I understand, more is always better

 

i was told that anything above 4gb does not speed up your system in any way, unless you indeed do use more than 4gb ram.

 

sorry, is SO-DIMM = 200 pin = laptop ram?

 

yup correct

 

I don't need 8GB right now but I was just curious about upgradability because I'm sure I will need/want it in the future when programs demand it.

 

you will need 64bit to use it though

 

4GB is so damn much I have disabled the virtual disk cache altogether and my baby runs like smooth, yeah. Even while running Orthos in the background I was web browsing listening to winamp with milkdrop 2 on my desktop (firefox windowed so I can see winamp playlist-transparent, with visualization all around). My laptop is so frivolous it makes me want to buy cell phones and throw them off my balcony at birds.

 

i had 8 on my desktop and i did not see any difference over 4. 4 oc's better than 8 so i took 4 out...

 

I'm going to dual-boot Sabayon 64Bit and Vista 64Bit so that shouldn't be a problem but 8GB are waaaayyyy to pricey right now anyways.
I sure hope the 9262 is compatible though.

 

Wow , the price tag is indeed a stop sign for now.
But then again, RAM is always among the cheapest parts,I don`t expect prices to stay this way for long.

 

The true question remains if the 901C can even use anything over 4 gig anyway, 64 bit OS or not.

 

And the M57xRU. Or is that out of question? Would also be great to have 4gig modules in that in the future when they are useful.

 

The D901C is using a desktop Intel 965 chipset.

Yes it can support more than 4GB.

 

yep Clevo D90xC fully support 8GB RAM you can see that in Everest....

 

Yowza!!!!!

 

For workstations, as Neil@Kobalt said, it`s very useful, heck even 16 Gigs would be nice, but from a gaming standpoint, 4 Gigs is not even fully used yet.

 

WOW! Now I love that laptop even more!!!

 

But, given the "growth" in the size of Windows, 4GB may be to Win7 (or Win8, or...whatever ) what 1GB was to _Vista.

Thus, the real benefit isn't in the here-and-now, but in the further longevity of the machine, making the investment more worthwhile.

 

Exactly what I'm thinking and once SSD's are getting cheaper I'm definitely getting one of those, too

 

I thought Microsoft was trying to steer away from the whole "bloated" Vista problem by making Windows 7 more streamlined, conservative and efficient; however more capable than Vista because it won't be a poorly-programmed-needless-resource-hog such as: Vista.

 

Can Santa rosa handle 8 gb?

 

All tho the chipset can handle 8 Gig of ram, it may have a limit of 2 Gig per socket?

Since desktop motherboards can have 4 slots, and we only have two.

Not to rain on the parade here, but i have bulit desktop systems with limits per socket like that before.

Something to think about before someone has to pay the restocking fee..........

 

dude...you're hogging the doobie, dude

 

Look, for me, it`s fine if the system uses 25% of my RAM, but when you have 2 gigs and vista uses 50%=1 gb, it`s not good.
If they keep the proportion, you`d have 16gb of ram and 4 gigs would be used by the OS. Imagine bootup times then.
I think that gaming-wise, 8 Gb is WAY TOO OVERKILL.At least for now.

 

8gb is not over kill.... I do virtualization all the time and even 8gb is small.....

Bring 8 gb on.... I hope me D901C get this upgrade.... 4gb sucks

Joe

 

Its a common misconception that RAM=Faster COMP.

I was taling to someone the other day, they were telling how their T61p had 5GB RAM.

I wanted to tell them how my lappy could fing rape theirs, but hey were elder, so I refrained

 

mmm...
more RAM = less LAG
and plus a little faster booting

 

To use 8GB of ram cost effectively on a notebook, there really should be 4 slots for memory. I have 8GB ram in my desktop, 4GB in my 5793 but then I do not use either to game. I run simulations, do research with large graphs, distributed computing projects, work on my legal studies, plus all the usual other things.

What really demands a lot of memory right now is the system OS as Microsoft has been including more features into the OS instead of having the OS call auxiliary programs as needed.

 

mmm...
more RAM = more RAM
and plus the same booting speed

 

I want a pair of this, too.