Hi Mathersalan,
Congratulations. You have some very sexy specs there. I just have a couple of questions for you in that regard. I also own an A7T Asus lappy (and damn proud of it) and have been anxious for a memory upgrade for a while now. I read the specs on newegg (I also saw your review there too by the way) and it said that the lappy has a maximum memory capacity of 2 GB. Your specs, however, say that you have 3 GB of RAM (So I'm assuming you bought yourself a 2 GB G.Skill stick and stuck it in with the preexisting 1 GB stick)...
Does your lappy ready the 3 GB at a DDR2 Spec of 667 (5300? or 5400?) or does it downgrade it to something lower? Does it even read the 3 GB or just 2 GB? Also, are there any specifics on the SPD timings that I should know about when buying the memory, or are they adjusted automatically by the BIOS?
Please let me know if indeed a 2 GB stick is possible for this machine. Appreciate your time and help!
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Upon further research (lamentably, the manual didn't have much info, since ASUS really doesn't want people to tinker around with memory), it seems that the 2 GB restriction is the maximum that a SINGLE slot can hold. The SPD chip timings for the memory can be anything on the TRAS but the CAS latency must be 5 (So a G.SKILL advertised on Newegg that has a 5-5-5-15 timing should work. Is this the one that you got Mathersalan? :
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231124)
So I'm pretty sure that buying any 1 GB or 2 GB stick with a DDR 667 PC2-5300 spec should bring this lappy to beast status. I wonder how a 64 bit linux distro runs?! Gotta try it out (though I've read that you cannot install linux on the native partition that holds the Vista install... which ****es me off about this lappy as it gave Vista a good 86 GB of the hard drive capacity...)!
Anyway, if you can confirm this, I would really appreciate it (anyone?). Thanks.