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Aging Clevo M570U Memory Question

Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by masinger53, Apr 3, 2012.

masinger53 Notebook Enthusiast

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Like another aging-clevo-owner posted here:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/545860-advice-aging-clevo-m570u.html

I am looking to repair/upgrade rather than replace. My SagerNP5760/M570U is still running strongly, except for the CMOS battery, which I intend to replace with instructions from this thread:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/232162-sager-5760-cmos-battery-replacement.html

My question is maximum memory -- Intel chipset 945GM supports 4Gb, but Sager Service Manual says 2Gb max -- so which is it? I understand that addressability is determined by OS; I need 4Gb to run a development VM under 64-bit Ubuntu, which will see all of the installed memory.

So if I shell out the $40-$50 for the 4Gb, will the mobo support it?

Thanks in advance,

M.A.

masinger53, Apr 3, 2012

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Prema Your Freedom, Your Choice

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You can put 4GB in there, but only 3GB will be available for the OS as the 4GB that the chipset supports incl. the 512MB from GPU plus some from the CPU etc:

The best upgrade you can give that system is a SSD as bootdrive, plus a big HDD in the Optical bay. You will need a small hack to froce the optical bay into UDMA5 mode though, because otherwise the bios caps it 30MB/s.

Prema, Apr 3, 2012

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