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Max amount of usable memory in T60 runing Vista X64?

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Max amount of usable memory in T60 runing Vista X64?

#1 Post by leegaard » Tue May 15, 2007 12:59 pm

What will that the optimal amount be? Suddenly 2 GB modules is affordable.

I guess all of you with small amount of memory should go out and buy now. 2 x 1 GB is now less than 100$ for both in Kingston or Crucial or other in-expensive brands.
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#2 Post by hoplite » Tue May 15, 2007 1:24 pm

I'm not sure about optimal.... but for max. Ultimate and Business (x64) maximum is 128GB.
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#3 Post by leegaard » Tue May 15, 2007 6:19 pm

And the limit of the T60?
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#4 Post by maximus_ » Tue May 15, 2007 8:03 pm

The chipset in the T60(p) is limited to 3GB regardless if the OS is 32 bit or 64 bit. The new Santa Rosa chipset in the T61(P)s will see up to 4GB

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#5 Post by tomh009 » Tue May 15, 2007 8:11 pm

And hopefully 8 GB once 4 GB modules are available!
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#6 Post by shalliday » Tue May 15, 2007 9:10 pm

maximus_ wrote:The chipset in the T60(p) is limited to 3GB regardless if the OS is 32 bit or 64 bit. The new Santa Rosa chipset in the T61(P)s will see up to 4GB
Am I reading this correctly... The T60p maximum memory is capped at 3GB even with Vista installed. Is there anyway this can be fixed short of selling the T60p and is this also the case for all T60's?
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#7 Post by tomh009 » Tue May 15, 2007 9:22 pm

It's true for all pre-Santa Rosa laptops -- none of them can address the full 4 GB of memory, regardless of the OS. The Santa Rosa-based ThinkPads (T61, R61 and soon X61) can access the full 4 GB when used with a 64-bit OS.
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#8 Post by gt5l » Tue May 15, 2007 9:39 pm

so the question becomes can a santa rosa chip be installed on a T60p?
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#9 Post by leegaard » Wed May 16, 2007 2:51 am

gt5l wrote:so the question becomes can a santa rosa chip be installed on a T60p?
As far as I am informed the CPU is different. As far as the chipset iis surface mounted (Soldered SMD chip) so I am quite certain that you can forget it.
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#10 Post by maximus_ » Wed May 16, 2007 8:42 am

shalliday wrote:
maximus_ wrote:The chipset in the T60(p) is limited to 3GB regardless if the OS is 32 bit or 64 bit. The new Santa Rosa chipset in the T61(P)s will see up to 4GB
Am I reading this correctly... The T60p maximum memory is capped at 3GB even with Vista installed. Is there anyway this can be fixed short of selling the T60p and is this also the case for all T60's?
This is the case with all t60s as they are pre Santa Rosa. Keep in mind with Santa Rosa if you install 8GB whenever 4GB sticks are available you will only see 4GB as this is the chipsets limitation and not the OS. There is no way around this as you can't replace the chipset on the MB.

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#11 Post by tomh009 » Wed May 16, 2007 9:01 am

maximus_ wrote:Keep in mind with Santa Rosa if you install 8GB whenever 4GB sticks are available you will only see 4GB as this is the chipsets limitation and not the OS. There is no way around this as you can't replace the chipset on the MB.
I don't think we know this to be true -- the new ThinkPad models' specs do say 4 GB maximum, but there are no 4 GB modules on the market, so 2x2 GB is all that can be currently installed. (Some older ThinkPads also support larger modules than were available and specified at the time of introduction.)

In fact, I would bet money that Santa Rosa will support higher memory densities than those available today. However, we won't know this for a fact until such memory modules become available.
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#12 Post by whizkid » Wed May 16, 2007 10:23 am

We do know for a fact that the T61/p chipset (GM965 or PM965) support up to 4GB of physical memory and no more.

http://download.intel.com/design/mobile ... 627301.pdf

It's quite a hack to get it to use all 4GB too. (Stolen memory reclamation?) Reminds me of bank swapping, but now it's all done transparently in hardware.
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#13 Post by shalliday » Wed May 16, 2007 12:02 pm

I am really finding it hard to believe that in this day and age this type of memory restriction still exists in new laptops because of some very short sighted hardware limitations. Seems like a total lack of forward thinking by Intel's design team to me. Unbelievable!
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#14 Post by tomh009 » Wed May 16, 2007 12:35 pm

whizkid wrote:We do know for a fact that the T61/p chipset (GM965 or PM965) support up to 4GB of physical memory and no more.

http://download.intel.com/design/mobile ... 627301.pdf

It's quite a hack to get it to use all 4GB too. (Stolen memory reclamation?) Reminds me of bank swapping, but now it's all done transparently in hardware.
Based on reviewing the doc (thanks for the link!) that is indeed a very disappointing -- and short-sighted -- design effort by the Intel design team. It sure won't make me feel any pride about those "Centrino" decals ...
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#15 Post by furrycute » Wed May 16, 2007 5:36 pm

What kind of hardware limitations are those?

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#16 Post by wswartzendruber » Fri May 18, 2007 1:31 pm

Is this for real? What's the advantage of Santa Rosa then? X3100 graphics?
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#17 Post by gator » Fri May 18, 2007 1:39 pm

whizkid wrote:We do know for a fact that the T61/p chipset (GM965 or PM965) support up to 4GB of physical memory and no more.

http://download.intel.com/design/mobile ... 627301.pdf

It's quite a hack to get it to use all 4GB too. (Stolen memory reclamation?) Reminds me of bank swapping, but now it's all done transparently in hardware.
That is a great link, thanks for sharing.
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#18 Post by Aroc » Sat May 19, 2007 2:15 pm

shalliday wrote:I am really finding it hard to believe that in this day and age this type of memory restriction still exists in new laptops because of some very short sighted hardware limitations. Seems like a total lack of forward thinking by Intel's design team to me. Unbelievable!
tell me about it. i've always wanted to stuff more memory than the motherboard/chipset would allow in every case. It's very annoying and there's little excuse for it if you ask me. In just about every computer over the last 12 years max'ed out at half of where I wanted. Ditto with this T43 (maxes at 2GB, and I really wanted 4GB). It forces me to keep a test desktop (Optiplex 745) and a test server (ProLiant DL380 G5) at work so I can work with large memory.

With the fantastic performance of the Pentium M and now Core 2 Duo you'd think we'd finally be seeing max memory sizes that more closely matched desktop computers (up to 8GB now in many case). But you're right, we still lag behind, and I'm sick of it.

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#19 Post by Dimitri_P » Sat May 19, 2007 5:29 pm

3GBs only, even if you have 4gb installed. Checked myself

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Re: Max amount of usable memory in T60 runing Vista X64?

#20 Post by Harryc » Sat May 19, 2007 8:03 pm

leegaard wrote:What will that the optimal amount be? Suddenly 2 GB modules is affordable.

I guess all of you with small amount of memory should go out and buy now. 2 x 1 GB is now less than 100$ for both in Kingston or Crucial or other in-expensive brands.
Off topic - where do you find 2x 1 GB sticks for less than $100?

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Re: Max amount of usable memory in T60 runing Vista X64?

#21 Post by Dimitri_P » Sat May 19, 2007 8:05 pm

Harryc wrote:Off topic - where do you find 2x 1 GB sticks for less than $100?
... you don't ...

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#22 Post by Harryc » Sat May 19, 2007 8:15 pm

Dimitri_P wrote:
Harryc wrote:Off topic - where do you find 2x 1 GB sticks for less than $100?
... you don't ...
I didn't think so ...:)

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#23 Post by leegaard » Sat May 19, 2007 9:59 pm

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Harryc wrote:Off topic - where do you find 2x 1 GB sticks for less than $100?
... you don't ...
Go find your currency converter...

http://www.itbutikken.dk/i/192894/1.htm

2 pieces of these will cost 94 US$ included VAT
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#24 Post by Dimitri_P » Sat May 19, 2007 10:01 pm

Nevermind, I thought he was talking about 2GB sticks :)

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#25 Post by Temetka » Sun May 20, 2007 12:58 am

I picked up 2 1GB sticks for my T41P at Fry's electronics for $72 each. I point this out because RAM for the T60/T60P line is much cheaper than plain old DDR333 SODIMM's. I bout the RAM about 6 weeks ago for a comparison.
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#26 Post by leegaard » Sun May 20, 2007 2:10 am

Dimitri_P wrote:Nevermind, I thought he was talking about 2GB sticks :)
Well - Accurate reading is a good thing. :o

But I admit that its possible to confuse the message in the body and in the header.

I guess its quite possible to get DDR2 5300 SODIMM 1 GB for around 50$ each, in the US too?

I have just ordered a 2 GB for around 190$ which is around a third compared to 2 months ago.
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