Not sure what the maximum RAM is for my Samsung RV510

[Buswell]

Hi there,
[i cant post links so sorry if this post isn't as clear as it could be!]

Just wondering if anyone can help me with this. I got one of these laptops close to a year ago
off Dabs. I do ASP.NET development which really isn't CPU intensive, but it only has 3GB of RAM, which can fill up pretty quickly. I've found conflicting sources on whether it supports 4GB RAM or 8GB of RAM (2x4GB sticks).

The Samsung website is absolute rubbish. It gives no proper technical details under the technical specification bit (like what version of SATA it supports!) and this isn't even the exact A09-UK model of laptop that I have, they haven't even bothered to make a page for that.
It says
System Memory 4GB (DDR3 / 2GB x 2)
Memory Slot 2 x SODIMM (Up to 4GB)
So i'm not sure if that is up to 4GB per slot or in total

While searching on the internet I found a page from arsDOTsamsungDOTcom
that shows a table and the row for RV510 has 8GB as the maximum. a WHOIS on ars.samsung.com shows it as part of samsung.com (although I can't find a way to get to this page from the samsung site)

on the online shops, theres about an equal amount that say 4GB as say 8GB max. for example; Scan & British Home Stores say 8GB, Dabs & aria say 4GB. some of these aren't exactly the same (they have slightly faster CPU), but CPU-Z lists the mobo as "Samsung RV410/RV510/S3510/E3510"so I presume it's the same mobo for all of these laptops and then the same maximum RAM.

Just wondering whether it was not normal for a laptop to support 4GB sticks (I have 8GB on my home PC but it has 4 RAM slots).

If anyone can help me with this that would be brilliant.

Cheers,
Buswell

[Pancake]

Intel seems to think its 4GB, although they have been wrong sometimes

http://ark.intel.com/products/chipsets/35507

It seems its a pretty crippled chipset. Ill post back if i find any proof of 8GB

EDIT:

Actually Samsung seem to think 8GB

http://ars.samsung.com/customer/usa/...0&PROD_ID=1354

I would get a 2 x 4GB sticks and then just return under DSR if they dont work.

I bet they will work, the G41M chipset says 4GB max but i had a PC with 8GB of DDR3 as my server and it saw and used it all

[Buswell]

hi Pancake.

Thats a really great response and exactly what I was looking for. I've just read a few other forum threads related to this chipset though and they mentioned Memtest crashing with more than 4GB of RAM

what exactly is DSR? that sounds interesting if i can buy it to test out (although i really dont think you can do that). I can get the 8GB for £25 (@ Scan) so its not exactly the biggest amount of money to lose anyway

and if i wanted to sell it, then i could memtest it in my laptop one stick at a time to check it worked ok