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I have bought an Asus G73 notebook for my multimedia purposes. This laptop came with 8GB or RAM. Now I am thinking about upgrading the memory of it. Can this notebook hold 16GB of memory? If it was possible then it would be very helpful for me in order to extend my Notebook power for better performance and efficiency. I do not want to overclock the memory. Are there any faster i7 processors than the Intel i7-720? Any help would be greatly appreciated. |
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The Maximum that you can go for that particular laptop is 8 gigs of ram for it. I usually check these things out directly with the manual if I had already bought it. Or go directly to the manufacturer when looking for a laptop to see about certain specs. Here is the link to it. http://usa.asus.com/Notebooks/Gaming_Powerhouse/G73Jh/#specifications |
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yea, laptops may not always support a larger RAM, even if it's OS say, Windows 7 can actually handle HUNDREDS of Gb of RAM. mine is limited to only 8GB too accdg to Newegg, I wonder why is that? but anyway i'm on 2gb today and there's nothing wrong since I really don't use that much of a RAM. so I say, it depends, like Chris P. said, check first whether your RAM is really the Bottleneck of the system. else, you don't have to upgrade it. |
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I would agree with xedric14. It will epend on what your doing or needing the extra ram for. Laptops I ususally will go with what the maximum for the model of laptop. Or on the PC side as well almost to the max but depending on the Operating system if it is a 32 bit or a 64 bit. Then go from there as well for it. IF your doing video editing or writing applications in Visual Studio, Netbeans, Fujitsu Cobol and your compiling a large applications yourself. Or using something like Oracle DBMS on a home computer. Then yes extra ram will help since you your going through memory like it was water. Other than that I would stick with what you have. My current workstation that I am replying back to you has 2 gigs of ram. And my other workstation has 4 gigs of ram and work well with that amount. No need to go higher than what they currently have. |
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Too find out how much RAM your system can support, use the Crucial System Scanner. This will tell you what your system is capable of, and then allow you to buy from them high quality, reliable memory. Crucial is a highly trusted brand of memory, and recommended by a large number of people, so you don't need to worry about it on that front. Also, in answer to your second question, the i7 720QM is far from the fastest i7 CPU. It is one of the best CPUs on the laptop market at the moment, but currently, is beaten by the following CPUs: Hope this clears enough up for you, Tim |
over clock memory? I thought you can only do that in processors and GPU?? or you have no clue? sorry i'm not saying anything wrong, just clarifying. :))
Actually, it is possible the overclock memory. You would increase the bus speed and timings, as well as the voltage to increase performance.
Why would you want more than 8GB of memory? That's going to be enough to run anything you want to. I work just fine on 4.