ASUS N61Jq - installing more than 8GiB of RAM?

[ipsi]

I'm looking at getting more RAM for my laptop, and I'm wondering if anyone out there has tried installing more than 8GiB of RAM into this brand (or a similar brand) of laptop.

According to Asus Support, it can only handle 8GiB, at most, but they're not always right.

I do know that the 4GiB is currently comprised of 2x 2GiB sticks, and there are two more memory slots that are currently unused. I was hoping I could buy 2x 4GiB sticks, for a total of 12GiB, but if the machine won't recognise that much RAM then it's obviously a waste of money.

So, anyone know? Or got any suggestions for testing it (without buying more RAM, only to find it doesn't work!)?

For what it's worth, I'm currently running Ubuntu 10.04 64bit, with the original Windows 7 64bit on a different partition (and pretty much unused).

 

[ipsi]

Bump. No one has any suggestions/answers?

 

[SickBeast]

My experience is that larger ram modules will generally work in systems, but not always. They probably listed the max at 4gb because that's the largest size that was available at the time, and they were only able to validate and test 1gb sticks.

Worst case scenario you'd have to sell off the memory, which isn't too bad seeing as the price has probably bottomed out for the next while.

I hope that helps.

 

[ipsi]

Thanks for that. I will probably give it a try and see how it works.

 

[SickBeast]

Can I ask what you do in Ubuntu that needs 12gb? The most I've ever needed for it has been 2gb or so.

 

[ipsi]

This is for my work laptop, and I do a lot of software development. So if I'm working on more than one client at once (which happens - they duplicate a lot of code, unfortunately), I can have 2 (or more) IDEs running at once, plus an application server for each client, plus Chrome, plus Email, plus a bunch of ancillary programs. All of which adds up to a lot of memory. It might not need 12GiB, but it certainly needs more than 4GiB.