Installing Laptop RAM into Desktop!?

[Emily Young]

Have you ever wondered if you could put laptop memory into a desktop? No? Let's do it anyway. What could go wrong?

 

 

Buy SODIMM to DIMM adapters on Ebay: http://geni.us/FqMvHfQ

Buy DDR4 RAM on Amazon: http://geni.us/KyL0d

[Nicnac]

nice

[Coaxialgamer]

@AshleyAshes

[AshleyAshes]

I know, I know, I know, I posted LTT spoilers to the forum TWO YEARS AGO. My bad.

[Radium_Angel]

Several old gen AIO systems used SODIMM, this is nothing new.

[Nicnac]

3 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

I know, I know, I know, I posted LTT spoilers to the forum TWO YEARS AGO. My bad.

Didn't seem that long ago to me D:

[8uhbbhu8]

9 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

I know, I know, I know, I posted LTT spoilers to the forum TWO YEARS AGO. My bad.

It's been 2 years since that build already?!!! Damn.... 

[AshleyAshes]

Just now, 8uhbbhu8 said:

It's been 2 years since that build already?!!! Damn.... 

Feb 2016 since I posed the question and the only users who replied basically said 'LAWL NO.  SNAKEOIL', I think it was like 6 weeks or so for the adaptors to actually show up and then I posted my own results.  So yeah about 2 years.

 

Of course once I posted that it worked well THEN people chimed in all 'Of COURSE it works' but no sign of them when I was asking and I couldn't Google up any info about it.

[AshleyAshes]

I sure am interested in reading the actual comments on YouTube about this video!
 

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Why do you even read comment posted by peoples who use Weeb avatar?

 

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[Mira Yurizaki]

10 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

Feb 2016 since I posed the question and the only users who replied basically said 'LAWL NO.  SNAKEOIL', I think it was like 6 weeks or so for the adaptors to actually show up and then I posted my own results.  So yeah about 2 years.

I think the last time someone (I dunno if it was you) asked about SO-DIMM to DIMM adapters, some people thought it wouldn't work because DDR4-SODIMM is 260 pins and DDR4-DIMM is 288 pins. Obviously pin incompatibility right? ... it only took like five minutes on Google to find out that those 28 pins were either extra or optional.

 

Surprised nobody questions why MicroSD shouldn't work in SD with a passive adapter even though the pin count is different.

[AshleyAshes]

1 minute ago, M.Yurizaki said:

I think the last time someone (I dunno if it was you) asked about SO-DIMM to DIMM adapters, some people thought it wouldn't work because DDR4-SODIMM is 260 pins and DDR4-DIMM is 288 pins. Obviously pin incompatibility right? ... it only took like five minutes on Google to find out that those 28 pins were either extra or optional.

 

Surprised nobody questions why MicroSD shouldn't work in SD with a passive adapter even though the pin count is different.

Yeah, that was def part of my research.  To compare the pinouts and everything was either 'No Connection', Redundant, or for ECC.  It was enough to say 'This is evidence enough to spend $13 in the name of science'.  And, yeah, really not a shocker, it worked.

[The Gaige]

It's a rock and hard place kindy thing.

[Luscious]

Well at least we didn't get an ASS WIPE advertisement on this one.

 

Aren't there already ITX boards that fit SODIMM's natively? This adapter would seem more useful for memory testing where a notebook as such isn't available.

[Sfekke]

I could see this being useful for what I do more then a few times in the past.

Weird that I never thought to look adapters like this up, well happy LTT covered it

[adamantiumxt]

I've been using one of these adapters in my rig for ages, though it's a DDR3 one (they only cost $4). They're useful as especially with the RAM supply issues now sodimms can often be found cheaper than dimms, at least where I live

[hardtofindinthefuture]

Whats next? putting laptop GPUs in desktops smh

[AshleyAshes]

 

What?

[AshleyAshes]

Just now, v0nn_toaster said:

Whats next? putting laptop GPUs in desktops smh

How about a laptop CPU in a desktop ITX board?

 

 

[hardtofindinthefuture]

Just now, AshleyAshes said:

How about a laptop CPU in a desktop ITX board?

 

 

whats next, putting a laptop PSU in a desktop smh

[AshleyAshes]

Just now, v0nn_toaster said:

whats next, putting a laptop PSU in a desktop smh

Those are called Pico PSUs and they are already very much established to be a thing.  

 

https://www.amazon.com/Mini-Box-PicoPSU-90-Power-Kit-Cyncronix/dp/B0035UETHW

[DildorTheDecent]

1 hour ago, AshleyAshes said:

 

Rule 16: There are no girls on the internet.

 

That goes for avatars.

[BachChain]

Now I want to make a DIMM->SODIMM adapter

[MovingFrag]

Ordered 4 of them from amazon (they are more expensive there but i will not have to wait for a month to get them). I hope they do work - because i have a TON of 16gb ddr4 SO-DIMMS laying around, i upgraded both of my laptops (Lenovo and Dell XPS) to 32GB each and now i don't know what to do with these so-dimms. And now this! Oh man, please don't say it was an April Fool joke!

[MovingFrag]

1 hour ago, AshleyAshes said:

How about a laptop CPU in a desktop ITX board?

It's called COM Express. I have a COM Express Type 6 carrier board and some CPU boards for them - with notebook Core i7 CPUs and DDR3 so-dimms and Xeon D and DDR4 so-dimms. 

[pitA]

Tested on an Intel platform. What about Ryzen with its memory pickiness?