Maximum RAM in laptop

[Darren Reid]

Hey, a question I've seen asked a few times but even from the answers I've seen there doesn't seem to be much agreement.

Essentially my laptop says it can handle upto 8GB ram (An acer 5755g if your interested). What I'm wanting to do is install more than this and try use two 8GB sticks. The typical answer is don't do it, it might not work. I'm willing to take this risk to see if it works initially but my question is what harm can it do, if any, if it accepts it on boot and I use those long term?

It seems a lot of motherboards tend to have a limit of around 8GB but there's rarely anything to stop them going above this (in recent laptops anyway). I mean my graphics card has its own memory of 1GB so if i installed 8GB ram surely I'm exceeding this limit anyway.

Lastly I have seen on ebay and such people selling my laptop with 16GB ram in it. There is potential for different motherboards to be used but they all run the same BIOS. Does this mean the BIOS should accept the larger ram capacity? or is it more of a hardware thing?

 

[barto]

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Acer-Aspire-5755G-Notebook.68113.0.html

Yes you can have 16 gb of ram.

 

[Darren Reid]

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Acer-Aspire-5755G-Notebook.68113.0.html
Yes you can have 16 gb of ram.

Erm.. Interesting thats the first time I've seen anywhere say that the 5755g supports upto 16GB ram. I did have a fairly extensive search through and most said 8GB limit (including the website I bought it from). The link you posted though does have a different more recent graphics card installed so i wonder if they have changed it recently or not. Should the different specs be of concern? Thanks for the answer though.

 

[Darren Reid]

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Acer-Aspire-5755G-Notebook.68113.0.html
Yes you can have 16 gb of ram.

Erm.. Interesting thats the first time I've seen anywhere say that the 5755g supports upto 16GB ram. I did have a fairly extensive search through and most said 8GB limit (including the website I bought it from). The link you posted though does have a different more recent graphics card installed so i wonder if they have changed it recently or not. Should the different specs be of concern? Thanks for the answer though.

Yeah the info on that site appears to be wrong. My laptop has only two ram slots not four. Thanks for looking it up though.

 

[barto]

Yeah the info on that site appears to be wrong. My laptop has only two ram slots not four. Thanks for looking it up though.

That really doesn't surprise me. Why don't you just find out what motherboard you have? Start > Run > "dxdiag" no quotes. When the window loads, you see System Manufacturer and System Model. What are they?