Any experience with 2GB memory chips and T60p?

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jb_973 · #1 Post by **jb_973** » Wed May 31, 2006 1:08 pm

Hi,

I would like to upgrade my 2623DDU to 3GB. While Crucial still has these listed at some outrageous price (a little under $1800 as of this morning!), there's a few others listed on dealram.com that seem a bit more reasonable (~$300).

Has anyone had any experiences with these chips?

Thanks,

Jason

gastro54 · #2 Post by **gastro54** » Wed May 31, 2006 5:14 pm

I don't have experience with 2gb Memory modules, but why do you need 3gb RAM? 2gb is plenty for anything out there that you would be doing on a notebook anyways. I would suggest waiting for 2gb module prices to come down before investing $300 in something that, right now, wont be taken advantage of.

jb_973 · #3 Post by **jb_973** » Wed May 31, 2006 5:31 pm

I guess I am one of those rarities - I actually do have a use for 3GB of RAM. I'm working on the development of some high-performance memory-based applications, and need to be able to simulate within my development environment (which includes my T60p) something similar to a server environment.

The extra memory will give me more breathing room when I have the application + the surrounding development tools running, and will also give me the ability to disable swapping during certain benchmarking/performance testing scenarios.

That said - I do have 1.5GB in my T60p right now. I could hold out with that for a bit longer, however the upgrade would definitely increase my productivity.

gastro54 · #4 Post by **gastro54** » Wed May 31, 2006 6:35 pm

Wow, that's interesting, I wouldn't have thought that there would be a legitimate use for >2gb ram, but it seems you actually have one!

Qoz3a · #5 Post by **Qoz3a** » Wed May 31, 2006 6:51 pm

jb_973 .. if u feel that u need it then go ahead and buy it .. dont hasitate ..

freakwave · #6 Post by **freakwave** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 3:50 pm

Hi jb_973,

I would be careful, these are all 2x1GB Kit. This is so anoying, I am also searching for a 2 GB Memory module, but I think nobody has one so far. The cruicial offer is not available at the moment. It was available a few weeks ago for about 700 USD.
There is on module from transcend which costs about the same, but it is a only 533 module, so not the maximum performance the chipset would provide.

It would be great if somebody could comment only if he or she has such a module, and not always ask why do you need it, we had that too often.

jb_973 · #7 Post by **jb_973** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 8:59 am

freakwave - thanks for the warning. I saw a 2GB listed on dealram (for sale at buy.com) - but after drilling down to the details, it listed as 2 x 1GB sticks. Definitely not what I had in mind!

I wonder why these chips are in such short supply right now?

lithium726 · #8 Post by **lithium726** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 10:06 am

jb_973 wrote:
I wonder why these chips are in such short supply right now?

Because the density of the ICs needed to shove 2GB of addressable memory on something as small as a sodimm is incredible?

Its new technology... itll come, but like all new technology, its rare when its launched and insanely expensive.

Any experience with 2GB memory chips and T60p?

Any experience with 2GB memory chips and T60p?

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