today's video was inspired by a post on the forum by ashley ashes who asked the
rest of our community if you could use laptop memory in a desktop system it
turns out you can get adapters unlike ebay
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by taking a closer look at these things they're made by i believe the company is
actually called jet and this is their part number you can actually get them in
a wide variety of different configurations these ones we found on
ebay and are designed for ddr4 sodiums
to a ddr4 full-sized dim now
you might think to yourself well what's to not work about this i can put
a micro sd card into a and full size sd
adapter no one's bewildered and baffled by this
but the reason this is such a big deal is come in and have a closer look
sodiums are a 200 contact point standard
full-size dimms actually have
288 so on here we've got a couple of
different things we've got whatever the hell a virtual fuse is apparently it's
patented we've got a jumper i mean there's no manual obviously so i'm going
to assume the defaults are fine
all right so let's shut down and
while i wait for Windows update apparently uh let's talk about the challenge and
show you guys how to install it i already put together one of them but you
want to kind of go in at an angle like that push it down make sure everything's
in there fully then you put a little bit of tension on
it just like that now
i am actually asking more from the adapter i want to see a couple of things
i want to see if we can get these sticks to run in
quad channel with the existing
3200 megahertz ddr4 that's on this platform
and i want to see if i can get the whole
thing to still run at 3 200 megahertz because it's one thing if you can
get memory you know working and recognized it's another if this adapter
is not interfering with its performance that looks
ridiculous you know we've had conversations internally about how hard
it is to build an ugly computer these days now that every motherboard has a
black pcb and all that kind of stuff but
bye jove i think we've done it okay
let's see what happens did we fail already postcode 55. uh well
then code 55 means no RAM installed
which is fairly discouraging because there
definitely is RAM installed even aside
from these uh so dim to dim adapters so
i'm gonna try reseeding them from the old wiggle wiggle
and then firing it up again
balls did you test this before we started filming the video
no okay i'm going to try the memo k button
i've never used it successfully shut up brandon
okay let's try clear seamos then
come on baby we're gonna try next is pulling out the
mismatched memory i mean admittedly that was a bit of a long shot in the first
place okay here we go that's very interesting
16 gigs of memory let's get it booted up so for fire up
task manager we've got all 16 gigs of
our memory it knows that they're so dim
so i don't know if it's reading that off the spd chip
or if i mean it must be it must be because how would Windows have any way
of knowing okay so we're just finishing up the ida
64 cache and memory benchmark and there's a couple more interesting things
here we are in fact running in dual
channel mode so that's good but only at stock speeds not the higher
xmp speeds of our modules and also interesting is that our read and write
numbers look about like you'd expect from ddr4 2133 in dual channel mode this
is weird so our memory is showing up as
ddr4 2400 megahertz
but i don't know where it's reading that from because
these adapters shouldn't have any logic on them whatsoever
but but there you have it it's set but when we were in the operating system
just now i didn't change anything we were at 21.33
so here's what we're going to do we're not going to try and run at 3800 that's
not realistic but let's try
sort of high speed like 3000 megahertz and see if we can get
there it's boot looping right now you can tell
because we keep going through the same sequence of postcodes here
okay let's try something a little less aggressive 26 66 megahertz wouldn't be
like a performance memory kit or anything when this was current but
like it would be decent middle of the road hey
there we go all right so this is moment of truth time what we want to see is if
going from 2133 to 2666
gives us an improvement yes it does
okay not bad
so you won't be running at the bleeding edge but
you should expect it to work bringing us to
what is often the most challenging part
of these kinds of videos where you know it's like yeah you could adapt your
trailer hitch to a office chair
you can but should you
so this thing then no one should go out of their way to use
one of these if you've got a desktop you should buy desktop memory and install
desktop memory in it and if you've got a laptop then well there's no adapter the
other way around because a full-size dim physically wouldn't wouldn't fit in
there but i can see situations where they
could come in handy like let's say for example that you've got an older laptop
that you're looking to upgrade well a lot of them might come with you know two
eight gig sticks in them and then you might go okay well i don't
want 16 gigs i want 32 in order to upgrade it you've got to go
buy two new 16 gig sticks and then you've got to take out your old
ones so if you were looking to give those parts a new lease on life
two jets credit i actually don't even know who makes these things to their credit
these are inexpensive and from our testing while not high performance
functional so not recommended to need them
but recommended if you need them to go ahead and pick them up
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