 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 I'm like eBay, but is that really gonna work? Only one way to find out One way to find one way to find out private internet access is the VPN service that encrypts all your internet traffic and uses a safe protected IP It's got tons of other useful features as well, so check it out now at the link below All right, so let's start I guess 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 they're pretty cool These ones we found on eBay and are designed for DDR4 So dims 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 So dims are a 200 contact point standard full-size dims 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 gonna assume the defaults are fine alright, so let's shut down and while I wait for Windows update apparently 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 channels 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 3200 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 and all that kind of stuff, but By Jove, I think we've done it Okay Let's see what happens. Did we fail already post code 55? Well, then code 55 means no RAM installed which is fairly discouraging because they're Definitely is RAM installed even aside from these SODIMM to DIMM adapters So I'm gonna try reseating them the old wiggle wiggle And then firing it up again balls No Okay, I'm gonna try the memo K button. I've never used it successfully So I've written okay. Let's try clear CMOS then 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 fire up task manager. We've got all 16 gigs of our memory It knows that they're SODIMM. 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 2133. So here's what we're gonna do. We're not gonna 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 Hmm, it's boot looping right now. You can tell because we keep going through the same sequence of post codes here post codes here Okay, let's try something a little less aggressive 2666 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 Alright, 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 you 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 to Jets credit. 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