Hi,
My old Asus G550JK gaming laptop died and I bought a MSI GE62 6QD to replace it.
Here is a link to the old (Asus) machine's specs: -ASUS-G550JK-4V-Gaming-Notebook-Intel-Cor.php]http://www.asusnotebook.com.au/3037_[SOLD-OUT]-ASUS-G550JK-4V-Gaming-Notebook-Intel-Cor.php
Here is the new MSI: https://www.msi.com/Notebook/GE62-6QD-Apache-Pro.html
I'm not very technical and was hoping someone here could help me with a couple of questions.
1. The old machine had 16GB RAM but the new one has only 8GB. Can/should I take the memory from the old machine and put it in the new one? (It looks like the old Asus has DDR3 whereas the MSI has DDR4.) Just wondering if I can mix these ram types and, if not, if double the slower one is better than the faster one in only 8GB.
2. I would like to access the hard drives from the old machine (it won't boot up). I had replaced the optical drive with a 3.5" 750GB SATA drive. There was also the inbuilt 256GB SSD drive. It seems a shame to waste these, plus I would ideally like to get some of the data from them. I know there are external caddies available, but I don't really want to buy 2 caddies to access these drives. Is there some kind of universal caddy/case that would allow me to access them both?
2a. If i did get caddies to mount these drives externally via USB, are these the sort of ones I would get for each drive respectively?
- http://www.scorptec.com.au/product/Hard_Drives_&_SSDs/Enclosures/61906-2588US3-BK
- http://www.msy.com.au/peripherals/3700-astone-iso-481-u3-35-usb30-enclosure.html
My old Asus G550JK gaming laptop died and I bought a MSI GE62 6QD to replace it.
Here is a link to the old (Asus) machine's specs: -ASUS-G550JK-4V-Gaming-Notebook-Intel-Cor.php]http://www.asusnotebook.com.au/3037_[SOLD-OUT]-ASUS-G550JK-4V-Gaming-Notebook-Intel-Cor.php
Here is the new MSI: https://www.msi.com/Notebook/GE62-6QD-Apache-Pro.html
I'm not very technical and was hoping someone here could help me with a couple of questions.
1. The old machine had 16GB RAM but the new one has only 8GB. Can/should I take the memory from the old machine and put it in the new one? (It looks like the old Asus has DDR3 whereas the MSI has DDR4.) Just wondering if I can mix these ram types and, if not, if double the slower one is better than the faster one in only 8GB.
2. I would like to access the hard drives from the old machine (it won't boot up). I had replaced the optical drive with a 3.5" 750GB SATA drive. There was also the inbuilt 256GB SSD drive. It seems a shame to waste these, plus I would ideally like to get some of the data from them. I know there are external caddies available, but I don't really want to buy 2 caddies to access these drives. Is there some kind of universal caddy/case that would allow me to access them both?
2a. If i did get caddies to mount these drives externally via USB, are these the sort of ones I would get for each drive respectively?
- http://www.scorptec.com.au/product/Hard_Drives_&_SSDs/Enclosures/61906-2588US3-BK
- http://www.msy.com.au/peripherals/3700-astone-iso-481-u3-35-usb30-enclosure.html
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