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    IdeaPad Y510 Ram Quesiton

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Echothedolphin, Aug 23, 2008.

  1. Echothedolphin

    Echothedolphin Notebook Enthusiast

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    Pardon the misspelling in the title!

    I recently purchased the Y510 from Lenovo, seeing as I'm getting a pretty good deal through the Intel RetailEdge Purchase program. I wanted to know if there are any IdeaPad users out there that know if you can fully utilize PC-6400 (800mhz)DDR2 memory on this thing, or if it's limited to it's stock PC-5300 (667MHZ) memory?

    I have some spare 800Mhz 2gb sodimm chips I have access to and have no reason not to upgrade it if it will take them.
     
    Echothedolphin, Aug 23, 2008
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  2. stewie

    stewie What the deuce?

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    If you have access to them, then try it, it's not gonna damage anything. If your BIOS doesn't accept them, you will know right away. But no matter what, your memory clock speed will still step down to 667 due to SA limitation, the memory is not going to run at 800.

    :)
     
    stewie, Aug 23, 2008
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