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8G of RAM - Thank you early adopters!
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:06 pm
by heelix
A pair of 4G SO-DIMMs showed up on my doorstep today. Installed without issues. With Win32, 3G of usable RAM. With Win64, all 8G show up.
Just wanted to say thank you to you early adopters out there!
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:21 pm
by sportfreak
wooooooooowww
u really are lucky to have such a work horse with rocket boost support
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 9:49 pm
by qviri
X61 I am guessing?
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 10:56 pm
by heelix
x61s.
Boy, they sure don't make it easy to install XP-64. Who would have guessed it would take more work to do Windows than Linux! Taking notes and will do a write up on this when I'm up and running.
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 5:50 am
by adrianaitken
Hi heelix, can using a 2GB and a 4GB SODIMM work (giving 6GB total) ?
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 9:15 am
by heelix
It should, but it will be a tad slower as it won't be dual channel. When I get back from holiday I'll try 4G+1G. Traded my 2G SO-DIMMs for the 4G'ers.
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 9:04 pm
by erik
heelix wrote:It should, but it will be a tad slower as it won't be dual channel.
it would still be in dual-channel mode with 4GB + 2GB. the speed differences between asymmetric and symmetric dual-channel modes are negligible at best and absolutely immeasurable by human standards. you'd have to be a robot to notice it.
