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I got bored at 4am so i took apart my laptop and added another 8GB of RAM because I had spares.  The plus side of being the IT friend ahaha (They wont miss it, they're not very good with computers) Have any of you guys/girls done similar Frankenstein job on your laptop?  

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1 minute ago, Desertpunk said:

I got bored at 4am so i took apart my laptop and added another 8GB of RAM because I had spares.  The plus side of being the IT friend ahaha (They wont miss it, they're not very good with computers)

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3 minutes ago, Desertpunk said:

I got bored at 4am so i took apart my laptop and added another 8GB of RAM because I had spares.  The plus side of being the IT friend ahaha (They wont miss it, they're not very good with computers)

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I wouldn't call it Frankenstein but I upgraded my old ass laptop from 1GB of RAM to 1.5 for like 5 bucks. Ultimately pretty pointless but what's done is done. 

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33 minutes ago, Desertpunk said:

I got bored at 4am so i took apart my laptop and added another 8GB of RAM because I had spares.  The plus side of being the IT friend ahaha (They wont miss it, they're not very good with computers) Have any of you guys/girls done similar Frankenstein job on your laptop?  

I've done the same with my current 15" MacBook Air bumping it from 4GB to 8GB RAM. Wouldn't call it Frankenstein-ing though since upgrading RAM is really common. 

4 minutes ago, DavidHawk62 said:

I wouldn't call it Frankenstein but I upgraded my old ass laptop from 1GB of RAM to 1.5 for like 5 bucks. Ultimately pretty pointless but what's done is done. 

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Yes... Except it wasn't anything to do with RAM and it was quite recent as well...

Old system was running a really old HDD plugged into SATA 2, The system is a small form factor as well. So what do I do? Just get a giant RAID card with SATA 3 ports and plug it into the side and then connect an SSD to it and now the side panel doesn't fit on anymore :)

 

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So... you took an 8GB stick of ram from your friends and justify it because "you're the IT guy"??

 

How kind of you!

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30 minutes ago, NinJake said:

So... you took an 8GB stick of ram from your friends and justify it because "you're the IT guy"??

 

How kind of you!

Yeah, I can't see how someone could "not miss" 8GB of RAM... I'm going to frame this as plainly as it is...admitted theft.

 

But to answer your question, when I was in high school I would gather up PCs people left at the end of their driveway during spring cleanup, and make the best one I could. Sold quite a few of those...

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I swapped the I3 3110m to a I7 3760qm in my previous laptop. It used the G2 socket so this was pretty simple :P

Also put in a better cooling fan, a 256GB 850 evo SSD and another 4GB of RAM in the process. 

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1 hour ago, Desertpunk said:

i took apart my laptop and added another 8GB of RAM  Have any of you guys/girls done similar Frankenstein job on your laptop?  

That's your idea of a "Frankenstein" job? 

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8 hours ago, Grant L said:

Yeah, I can't see how someone could "not miss" 8GB of RAM... I'm going to frame this as plainly as it is...admitted theft.

 

But to answer your question, when I was in high school I would gather up PCs people left at the end of their driveway during spring cleanup, and make the best one I could. Sold quite a few of those...

Mate i changed it to 4GB of RAM 

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