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671037 2008-05-20 07:09:00 I have an Asus A6R Z92Rseries laptop and want to upgrade my RAM. I bought it about a year ago and its meant to have 512mb but only has 384mb, so I want to put a 1GB (or more) in it but don't know what brands are compatible and prices. Can anyone tell me what RAM type I can have and/or tell me what I'll be paying if I took to a computer place. Craig Mellor (13762)
671038 2008-05-20 07:12:00 The 'missing' ram is probably being eaten up by your integrated graphics.

And this is a laptop, not sure if you can actually upgrade a laptop...
SPARTAN 860 (2618)
671039 2008-05-20 07:14:00 I have a ATI Radeon Xpress 200M which is 256mb. Craig Mellor (13762)
671040 2008-05-20 07:24:00 Heres the specs for your GPU,

www.amd.com

its an 'Integrated ATI Radeon™ X300 graphics core with clock speed of 300/400MHz (for ATI Radeon Xpress 1100/1150)'

Basically, if the x300 is integrated, so is a x200.
Its just like that a Geforce 6100 LE is integrated.
SPARTAN 860 (2618)
671041 2008-05-20 07:28:00 Have a look Here (http://www.laptopbatteries.co.nz/) should answer your questions, and yes of course laptop RAM can be upgraded. gary67 (56)
671042 2008-05-20 11:53:00 What is your warranty period? You may have to have it upgraded by an approved tech/shop in order not to invalidate the the warranty .

If you're not not familiar with the innards of laptops, it may be best to leave to a tech who is anyway .

BTW, what OS are you running and what is the main use/software?
Murray P (44)
671043 2008-05-21 01:46:00 I has a global warrranty for 2 years but thats probably expired by now. WINXP home is my OS and I mainly use it for music, videos, games and internet. Craig Mellor (13762)
671044 2008-05-21 02:51:00 Ok then. More RAM should give you the best upgrade bang for buck. I take it you mean watching videos rather than encoding, if so 1 to 2GB will do you fine.

Your machine will never be much of a gamer with that video card, though not many laptops are good at gaming anyway. It's probably not worth upgrading the card either.
Murray P (44)
671045 2008-05-22 00:26:00 haha, should have checked ASUS website first:

Main Memory

DDR2 533MHz SDRAM, 2x SO-DIMM socket expandable to 1GB


So, get a program like CPU-Z to tell you what you've already got in there, then you can upgrade

Sounds like you can have max 512MB x 2 = 1GB
Agent_24 (57)
671046 2008-05-22 02:10:00 The 'missing' ram is probably being eaten up by your integrated graphics.


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thats right



And this is a laptop, not sure if you can actually upgrade a laptop...
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OMG of COURSE you can upgrade the ram in a laptop.........well like any pc up to whatever the motherboard will handle
drcspy (146)
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