RAM Upgrade

[satinblack]

Got a question to ask, just gotten my hand on the G55VW and I am planning to upgrade the RAM to Corsair Vengeance 16GB 1866 Mhz, however I remember reading at Xoticpc that the Asus bios only supports 1333Mhz Ram.

I am planning to take out the OEM ram and install the corsair RAM on all four slots.

Would you be able to advise if I need to upgrade the bios in order for me to make full use of the 1866 Mhz speed or does the system will auto optimize the timings ?

Advise is much appreciated.

[electric0ant]

I'm pretty sure its 1600mhz ram. and only 2 is accessible from the bottom panel. to access the other two slots you have to pretty much disassemble most of the laptop.

[Zygomorphic]

The system should run at 1866 speeds, at least 8 GB will. 16 GB, I do not know. Actually, the default RAM in your notebook is 1600 MHz. @electric0ant, you are correct, accessing all four slots is tedious and difficult. Be careful @satinblack. Good luck!

[satinblack]

Hahaha, thanks for the advice guys. Luckily I won't be upgrading the RAM. Getting it done by a professional, just wanted to check on the compatibility before proceeding.

[TechMaxed]

The system should run at 1866 speeds, at least 8 GB will. 16 GB, I do not know. Actually, the default RAM in your notebook is 1600 MHz. @electric0ant, you are correct, accessing all four slots is tedious and difficult. Be careful @satinblack. Good luck!

Are you sure that rams are able to run at 1866mhz speed in the G55...??? (curious)

[Zygomorphic]

Well, one of the ASUS reps ran an older G-series (G73JW) at 1866 speeds some time ago, so what with improved mobos and such, it is almost certain to be compatible. ASUS disables the internal Intel graphics, which is what usually limits the memory speeds. I know that ASUS did it with 8 GB, so I would assume that 16 GB will work, but I will not guarantee it. To be honest though, ASUS reps basically said it was not worth the money, since the benchmark jumps were usually slight at best. They said that it might help with lower latency eliminating micro-stuttering, but true bandwidth increase does not increase the gaming performance much. That said, I have heard that with integrated graphics higher speed RAM can make a huge difference, especially at higher resolutions and textures, because the Intel graphics share the memory bandwidth, so any increase can help the graphics run faster when it is bandwidth limited (often the case at high resolutions and large textures).

[TechMaxed]

Thanks for that nice piece of info bro....

[john_from_ohio]

just gotten my hand on the G55VW and I am planning to upgrade the RAM to Corsair Vengeance 16GB 1866 Mhz

Check out your current installed ram carefully for timings etc.

If you put in sticks that do not match timings/specs you may end up putting in faster ram which gets forced to running all your memory slower due to forced timing compatibility matches.

[Zygomorphic]

Use CPU-Z, ASUS put an ROG skin on it. It will read the timings in the memory so that you can match them. Best (only) tool I've tried.

[satinblack]

Check out your current installed ram carefully for timings etc.

If you put in sticks that do not match timings/specs you may end up putting in faster ram which gets forced to running all your memory slower due to forced timing compatibility matches.

Thanks for the advise, well I not that worried about it. Will be taking out the stock ram and then replace all 4 slots with the 4GB x4 Corsair Vengeance 1866Mhz ram.