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| 645473 | 2008-03-02 01:53:00 | What type of memory is used in the Eee PC? Am thinking if buying one for uni and want to upgrade to 1.5GB (from 1/2GB) when I purchase it. One assumes it can run XP Prof... How much would it cost and where to get the RAM from? Also is it worth getting an extra 4GB of storage (in the form of an SD card)? PC will mainly be for uni related stuff. The reason I want 1.5GB of ram is because I want no paging file so I will have max space on the 4GB HD. |
jwil1 (65) | ||
| 645474 | 2008-03-02 02:13:00 | If its one of these it uses DDR2 ram (www.asus.com.tw) According to the ASUS download site, there's 7 versions of the EEE PC. The others are Linux based |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 645475 | 2008-03-02 02:17:00 | If its one of these it uses DDR2 ram (www.asus.com.tw) According to the ASUS download site, there's 7 versions of the EEE PC. The others are Linux based I want to get the 4GB one (running Linux) from DSE or wherever, then possibly upgrade it to 1.5GB of ram and install XP. Which type of DDR2 ram should I get? (eg DDR2-400, DDR2-667 etc etc) |
jwil1 (65) | ||
| 645476 | 2008-03-02 02:23:00 | Pass. Read the manual There's 2 4GB Linux versions The 4G version (dlsvr01.asus.com(701)/e3605_EeePC4G_080125.zip) <- direct link And there's the 4G Surf/Linux Looks like both use the same manual |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 645477 | 2008-03-02 05:28:00 | This forum seems to have all the answers: http://www.eeeuser.com/ | LiquidSolidity (1589) | ||
| 645478 | 2008-03-02 07:43:00 | The Eee PC only has one RAM slot. So whatever you do, you will have to discard whatever is in there. | somebody (208) | ||
| 645479 | 2008-03-02 09:29:00 | PM Chilling Silence and he'll give you all the specs you need. | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 645480 | 2008-03-02 10:42:00 | That would be DDR2 SO-DIMM 667Mhz (PC2 5300) memory. Check Pricespy for prices but IIRC it'll be around the $45 mark for 1GB. The default kernel only supports 1.5GB, and lets be realistic it runs pretty smooth on just 512MB as-is... In Linux at least ;) WinXP can see 2GB by default, and there's a ton of How-To's available out there, including installation to an SDHC card. Not sure if its still affecting people but there were mixed results with SDHC cards, some people had to throttle the USB controller back to USB1.1 speeds making them less-desirable. Personally I'd opt for a 2GB SD card (Ive got 512MB and its not being used at all, still using the remaining 1.4GB from the Linux install -- Im a Uni student also!) Now IIRC there's only one slot so you have to replace the 512MB stick rather than add to it, and you'll want to keep the old chip because if you have to ship it back to Asus for replacement they request you put the original RAM back in. Hope this helps Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 645481 | 2008-03-11 04:29:00 | Just thought I'd drag this sucker up Ive just ordered 2GB Ram for $60-ish for my EeePC. I did an nLite'd XP installation using only my Thumbdrive / SD-Card and over-wrote the Linux install on the main 4GB Drive. Took a little fiddling but the EeePC was fine with booting from the SD Card and the USB Drives too so that was handy. XP with 512MB Ram and a <100MB Swap = bad news! DEFINITELY needs 1GB+.. I open Outlook 2003, Firefox & Live Messenger and I get an error telling me its trying to increase my Swap file size... NEVER had that issue in Linux on it. I could open the Music Player (in the background), play a video, have OpenOffice Writer, Adobe Reader, Pidgin (msn), Firefox with around 15 Tabs, and it was snappy as anything! XP sadly isnt, and also takes around twice as long to boot and 5x longer to shut-down. Still, Im going to give it a good thrashing with 2GB Ram and see how I go, HDD space remaining is minimal but still around 600MB remaining. Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 645482 | 2008-03-11 05:01:00 | Just thought I'd drag this sucker up Ive just ordered 2GB Ram for $60-ish for my EeePC. I did an nLite'd XP installation using only my Thumbdrive / SD-Card and over-wrote the Linux install on the main 4GB Drive. Took a little fiddling but the EeePC was fine with booting from the SD Card and the USB Drives too so that was handy. XP with 512MB Ram and a <100MB Swap = bad news! DEFINITELY needs 1GB+.. I open Outlook 2003, Firefox & Live Messenger and I get an error telling me its trying to increase my Swap file size... NEVER had that issue in Linux on it. I could open the Music Player (in the background), play a video, have OpenOffice Writer, Adobe Reader, Pidgin (msn), Firefox with around 15 Tabs, and it was snappy as anything! XP sadly isnt, and also takes around twice as long to boot and 5x longer to shut-down. Still, Im going to give it a good thrashing with 2GB Ram and see how I go, HDD space remaining is minimal but still around 600MB remaining. Cheers Chill. Hmm... I have XP, Firefox, Office 2007. Eee PC with 512mb RAM, 4gb SSD, 4G SDHC for data. I've simultaneously run Firefox, Powerpoint, and played a video (mov format) without any issues. |
somebody (208) | ||
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