Dual Channel Upgrade

[vuchithien95]

Hi guys,

I just ordered a Sager NP8671 laptop with base configuration of 8GB of RAM. Now I would like to upgrade to 16GB dual channel, can I buy 1 more 8GB stick that has the same specs to the old one (or an identical stick) or I must buy a dual channel kit?

Also the spec said that the ram is SDRAM, which is not the DDR3L that I saw around in gaming laptop. Is it a lower performance RAM type and is it going to bottleneck the system?

this is the spec of my system:

 

- 17.3" Full HD LED-Backlit Display with Matte Finished Surface (1920 x 1080)
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M GPU with 3GB GDDR5 Video Memory
- 4th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-4720HQ Processor ( 6MB L3 Cache, 2.60GHz)
- IC Diamond Thermal Compound - CPU + GPU
- Genuine MS Windows® 8.1 64-Bit Edition
- 8GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 1 X 8GB
- 1TB 7200rpm SATA2 Hard Drive
- Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265 M.2 AC Wireless LAN + Bluetooth Module
- Smart Polymer Battery Pack (4 Cell, 60WH)
- Fingerprint Reader

 

Thank you guys very much

[ApolloX75]

Hi guys,

I just ordered a Sager NP8671 laptop with base configuration of 8GB of RAM. Now I would like to upgrade to 16GB dual channel, can I buy 1 more 8GB stick that has the same specs to the old one (or an identical stick) or I must buy a dual channel kit?

Also the spec said that the ram is SDRAM, which is not the DDR3L that I saw around in gaming laptop. Is it a lower performance RAM type and is it going to bottleneck the system?

this is the spec of my system:

- 17.3" Full HD LED-Backlit Display with Matte Finished Surface (1920 x 1080)

- Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M GPU with 3GB GDDR5 Video Memory

- 4th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-4720HQ Processor ( 6MB L3 Cache, 2.60GHz)

- IC Diamond Thermal Compound - CPU + GPU

- Genuine MS Windows® 8.1 64-Bit Edition

- 8GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 1 X 8GB

- 1TB 7200rpm SATA2 Hard Drive

- Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265 M.2 AC Wireless LAN + Bluetooth Module

- Smart Polymer Battery Pack (4 Cell, 60WH)

- Fingerprint Reader

Thank you guys very much

It'll be normal laptop DDR3 RAM. All RAM in this day and age is "SDRAM" really. The real difference for your case is between DIMM (desktop sized) and SODIMM (laptop) socket types.

So really you can probably get away with a similar 8GB DDR3-1600MHz SODIMM stick and it should work fine.