kode54 wrote:kithylin wrote:Interesting little things, works right off natively.
Well, that's kind of a given, considering that SODIMM is pin for pin identical to DIMM of the same DDR version. Likely in your case to both be PC3/DDR3. Useful if you have SODIMMs kicking around with nothing better to do with them, but since SODIMM tends to be more expensive than DIMM of the same capacity, not really a cost effective solution for buying new memory. Well, unless you plan to use said new memory in your laptop later.
For me, my laptop has 4 ram slots. And it came when I bought it from the pawn shop with 24GB ram in it (2x4 + 2x8). I don't need quite that much ram in that thing, 16GB would be fine, so I could re-arrange ram. I was looking at upgrading ram in my mini-ITX desktop system. I use my itx system as my "daily driver" 99% of my computing is it. Web browsing, random small office tasks, video editing, etc. I only had 8GB (2x4GB) in my ITX system, and it only has 2 ram slots. So I was looking at somewhere around $120 - $135 to upgrade my ITX system to 16GB. And I needed it with heavy web browsing and stuff.. was running out of it constantly with 8GB, was a big problem.
So instead of $130, I bought these.. took the 2x8's out of my laptop, and transplanted em into my ITX system. Total was $17 shipped for the ram adapters. And yes they're DDR3-1600-1.5v SODIMMS, (even though my ITX system doesn't let me overclock and only runs em at 1333 mhz). So there, got my ITX system upgraded for $17, now it runs 16GB and it's happy.
But then my laptop was left at 8GB. I use it a lot when sitting in the other room doing work on my retro computers. And I often spawn tons of tabs web-browse-working in there. So I wanted more ram too, and already knew 8GB won't be enough. But fortunately it has 4 slots so I just picked up a auction listing for 2x4GB DDR3-1600-1.5v to match the 2 in there. Now laptop's happy, and now both machines have 16GB.
Total cost after buying more ram: $37 out of pocket.
So in my situation, saved me a lot of money. Now I can look in to buying othe things. Like a $60 replacement screen in my laptop that suddenly went out last week. *sigh* Still need to buy more SSD's for it some day.