Notebooks & Netbooks

[crisorlandobr]

Hello fellas

I have a doubt about RAM upgrade for the E1-421

I have the E1-421-0-BR899 (brazilian version) here, it has 4GB of RAM, 320GB HDD and E1-1200 (1.4 GHz) processor

I upgraded my HDD to a 1TB hybrid and removed the slim DVD and replaced with a HDD SATA caddy (750GB HDD)

But I got a doubt about RAM upgrade here

Acer says it can handle up to 8GB (2 x 4GB) RAM here, but does anyone know this is the real limit ? I know brands use to say this as a "safe" limit, since I also have an Acer netbook here (AO722) that has an official 4GB limit, but I searched forums when I bought it and people could use a 8GB memory with no problem, and I bought a 8GB memory to use there, and it worked really fine

So... is it possible to use 16GB (2 x 8GB) with this notebook ? The only problem here is the RAM issue, since its pretty much fast even with the bunch of stuff I install and the number of HDDs I use with my USB 3.0 hub ehehehe

Tks !

[philetus]

Most of the memory sites sell an 8 GB upgrade so it will most likely take 8. I think the only way you will find if it will take 16 is borrow or buy 16GB and try it.

[crisorlandobr]

Hi

I was able to put 8GB on a single slot by putting my netbook RAM module here
Acer says each slot would limit to 4GB but here it went fine

Tks

[philetus]

That's great. You going to try another 8 in the other slot?

[crisorlandobr]

Hi
Actually I am gonna boot ubuntu live-USB to check the limits of each slot or try using Windows powershell to check if its possible to see the limits there

With Ubuntu I was able to check the RAM limits from the netbook, and it has 2 slots, but only one of them was usable since the other one does not have brackets to hold RAM module

Tks