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2gb So-dimm

post #1 of 11
6/22/05 at 10:44pm
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I must have been sleeping when this one came out...

http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews...06_135503.html

At $1700 a chip I could build a $12,000 Clevo 900

Does anyone know where you can buy one of these...I would like to at least start tracking the price waiting for a drop. For that matter does anyone know which laptops have a bios that can support them? It would have to be AMD and XP64
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post #2 of 11
6/22/05 at 10:54pm
A better reason to upgrade to 64 - bit processor/64 -bit OS
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post #3 of 11
6/22/05 at 11:07pm
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I have both. What I really need is more memory!
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post #4 of 11
6/22/05 at 11:37pm
Problem would be..what chipset support more than 2GB? or 4GB?
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post #5 of 11
6/22/05 at 11:38pm
I think the real question is, who here NEEDS more than 2 GBs?
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post #6 of 11
6/22/05 at 11:47pm
who really needs more than 1GB? my 2yr old asus has 1GB and i have never needed a swap file (swap is disabled)
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post #7 of 11
6/22/05 at 11:53pm
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Originally Posted by pr50wner
who really needs more than 1GB? my 2yr old asus has 1GB and i have never needed a swap file (swap is disabled)
For most people who just surf web and check emails, they don't, and probably won't for a couple of years at least.

However there are many advanced users that require > 2GB of memory space to run a single program, which is not possible under Windows32.
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post #8 of 11
6/23/05 at 12:00am
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Originally Posted by smilepak
Problem would be..what chipset support more than 2GB? or 4GB?
Intel has the 945 and 955 for the P4... I don't know about AMD the chip can address something like 40GB. THe real question is not only chipset but bios!

I need more than 2GB for work, I have a single app which maxes out at 1.4 GB and would run considerably faster with 4 GB.
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post #9 of 11
6/23/05 at 12:02am
Sad...Sonoma can't go beyond 2GB. I would love to try 4GB.....

with 4GB, I'll set aside 2GB of RAMDISK TEMP DIRECTORY...

with 2GB I have not, swap disabled. Runs great with Photoshop and games..hehehe
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post #10 of 11
6/23/05 at 9:11pm
That's a DDR2 SO-DIMM, and AMD currently only supports DDR. So you need an Intel chipset... I suspect that DDR3 will be common before that SO-DIMM ever makes it to market.

It's nice to think about huh. I just swapped my 2x1GB DDR333 for 2x512MB DDR400 to try overclocking again. (I don't have any 1GB DDR400 SODIMMs that work in my M6Ne. Anyone else?) Bumping the FSB from 100MHz to 120MHz gets the memory clock up to DDR400 speed. At that setting, I have to limit my CPU multiplier to 19 (instead of 20) for a top speed of 2.28GHz. The system runs at 2.4GHz (x20) but SuperPi gets invalid results. Also the PCI clock gets out of whack, and my audio dies. Anyway, I'm probably going to swap back to the 2x1GB DDR333 because the memory is more useful (as disk cache) for system throughput.
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post #11 of 11
6/24/05 at 9:02am
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Originally Posted by hyc
... I suspect that DDR3 will be common before that SO-DIMM ever makes it to market.
By the time DDR3 gets here we will all probably be looking for the laptop after our next one.

Without DDR2 support I will be looking for Intel I prefer AMD but cant let that get in the way of performance.
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