8GB RAM fit in the W500 - And is it better than stock?

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8GB RAM fit in the W500 - And is it better than stock?

#1 Post by QWERTY Andreas » Sun Aug 08, 2010 1:03 pm

Hi!
Will these 8 GB RAM fit in my w500, and are they better than the 4GB original memory?
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Re: 8GB RAM fit in the W500 - And is it better than stock?

#2 Post by ZaZ » Sun Aug 08, 2010 2:41 pm

Yes, those will work. I don't think there's much of a difference in memory these days. buy the least expensive and it usually works.
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Re: 8GB RAM fit in the W500 - And is it better than stock?

#3 Post by awolfe63 » Fri Aug 13, 2010 5:11 pm

I have upgraded my W500 to 8GB. Works fine.

I used these from SuperBiiz (ewiz)

Samsung DDR3-1333 SODIMM 4GB Original Notebook Memory D3-13S4GS1 $118.98 each (when I got them)
http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=D3-13S4GS1


Don't notice much improvement. Hibernate sure takes a long time though :)
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Re: 8GB RAM fit in the W500 - And is it better than stock?

#4 Post by QWERTY Andreas » Sun Aug 15, 2010 2:50 am

Well.. I think i just keep the stock ram :)
Thinkpad W500 (2.53 GHz P8700, 4 GB RAM, FireGL V5700, WUXGA)
Thinkpad T61F 14" (2.53 GHz QX9300, 6 GB RAM, Quadro FX570m 256 MB, SXGA). Advanced dock with AMD Radeon HD7750
Custom build ITX desktop (i5 4590, 8GB RAM, AMD R7 260X, custom watercooling)
Thinkpad 8, Fujitsu F-07C


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