Does such RAM exist in a single 2GB DIMM: 200-Pin DDR SO-DIMM DDR 333 (PC 2700) Notebook Memory?

August 2, 2007 7:14 PM

Does such RAM exist in a single 2GB DIMM: 200-Pin DDR SO-DIMM DDR 333 (PC 2700) Notebook Memory?

I'm looking for a 2GB DIMM for my Gateway 7422GX, which supports 1GB Max RAM . I was hoping I could try 2GB and it might work even though it's not officially supported.

I only can find 2GB in DDR2, which I suspect would almost certainly not work.

Thanks, MeFi!

posted by drinkspiller to computers & internet (6 comments total)

DDR2 of any size will certainly not work with your notebook.

2GB of the right kind of RAM in a notebook that only supports 1GB probably won't work either - your chipset probably lacks the address lines to communicate with more than 1GB of RAM.
posted by b1tr0t at 7:25 PM on August 2, 2007

I'm pretty sure DDR1 only support 1G max capacity each module per the specs.
Does your laptop only have 1 or 2 slots? If it's 2, then 2 1G modules might work, though I dunno if your motherboard has the capability of communicating with that much bandwidth.
posted by jmd82 at 7:31 PM on August 2, 2007

Sadly, only the one slot (which is why I had my fingers crossed for the existence of a 2 gigger)
posted by drinkspiller at 7:33 PM on August 2, 2007

2GB DDR sticks do exist, but odds are that if you did find one, your laptop either wouldn't work at all, or it would only give you 1GB of the 2GB to work with.
posted by phaded at 7:51 PM on August 2, 2007

>2GB DDR sticks do exist
Any ideas where I could find one?
posted by drinkspiller at 11:11 PM on August 2, 2007

No 2 GB memory module will work in your Gateway for the reasons b1tr0t gave you. It won't. Really, it won't.

But if you want to upgrade to Vista, you can take advantage of a new Vista feature, ReadyBoost that uses cheap USB flash memory thumbdrives to give you up to 8 GB of rapid access cache memory. This has the advantage of being both comparatively inexpensive, and officially supported.
posted by paulsc at 11:42 PM on August 2, 2007