My Lenovo ThinkPad T61p now has 8GB of RAM

How 'bout 6465?

Tom Lawrence — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:13:59 GMT

Has anyone tried this on a T61 non-P (model 6465)? Kingston not listing an 8GB option for that model. I'd hate to spend that much money to find it didn't work in that model.

3 GB instead of 4 GB

Tomas Varil — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:14:15 GMT

Hellon i have upgraded to vista 64 bit but, Vista is showing 4GB and bios is showing 4GB but when bios is checking RAM at the non quick but it check only 3012. Where is the problem ?

re: My Lenovo ThinkPad T61p now has 8GB of RAM

Robert Green — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:53:15 GMT

I see that newegg has G.Skill 4GB modules listed at around $200 each. Has anyone tried those? If they are compatible, I think I'm sold.

re: My Lenovo ThinkPad T61p now has 8GB of RAM

Will — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:19:18 GMT

Here is a snapshot:

http://www.willgreene.net/thinkpad/8gb.html

re: My Lenovo ThinkPad T61p now has 8GB of RAM

Will — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:28:11 GMT

Hello Keith,

I got my T61p setup with 8gb now. Seems like the prices of those 4gb sticks are coming down weekly, Ha, oh well. But I now have it running Windows 2003 Server and then VMware for all of my virtual servers. It is so nice to be able to allocate each one 1gb of memory and have 6 servers running at one time. Thanks to you for being a guinea pig for this test :)

Now if I had only waited another month, I could have ordered that quad core Thinkpad, :)

Will

re: My Lenovo ThinkPad T61p now has 8GB of RAM

Michael — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:01:33 GMT

BTW, the Kingston ValueRam 8 GB kit from shop.kingston.com is 788 for the set:

http://shop.kingston.com/PartsInfo.asp?ktcpartno=KVR667D2S5K2/8G

re: My Lenovo ThinkPad T61p now has 8GB of RAM

Michael — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:56:45 GMT

OpenSuse 10.3 on my T61p T7800 with 8GB of Kingston Value Ram recognizes all 8 GB:

Tasks: 152 total, 1 running, 151 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie

Cpu(s): 0.8%us, 0.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 97.0%id, 0.9%wa, 0.2%hi, 0.2%si, 0.0%st

Mem: 8243856k total, 901892k used, 7341964k free, 47628k buffers

Swap: 6345632k total, 0k used, 6345632k free, 487420k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND

3637 root 15 0 846m 55m 8876 S 1 0.7 1:41.02 Xorg

re: My Lenovo ThinkPad T61p now has 8GB of RAM

Keith Combs — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:29:08 GMT

James, I would call Kingston to confirm. I really don't know if they are compatible. I want to say yes, but a phone call would be a better idea. I think you can so one at a time, or mix with other memory you might have for an odd total. Again, while you are on the phone with Kingston or a Kingston reseller, they should be able to answer that question.

If your machine has the Santa Rosa chipset, you should be good as far as x64 OS large memory support is concerned. Just get the right sticks.

re: My Lenovo ThinkPad T61p now has 8GB of RAM

James — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:02:41 GMT

Hey I was wondering if this memory would work in mine. I have a T61P with the following specs:

Product: ThinkPad T61 6460-8VU [change]

Operating system: All [change]

Original description: T7700(2.4GHz), 2GB RAM, 160GB 7200rpm HD, 15.4in 1920x1200 LCD, 256MB nVIDIA Quadro FX 570M, CDRW/DVDRW, Intel 802.11agn, Bluetooth, Modem, 1Gb Ethernet, UltraNav, Secure chip, Fingerprint reader, Windows Vista Ultimate x64

another question is do these have to me installed in pairs? Or can I get one now and another one in a month or so.

re: My Lenovo ThinkPad T61p now has 8GB of RAM

eLiNK — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:04:21 GMT

Hi,

just wanted to make a short comment.

Don't remember the source but I read that the Server versions of Windows are actually 36-bit systems, not 32-bit.