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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 adaptors unlike eBay but is that really gonna work only 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 alright 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 are designed for ddr4 sodium's to a ddr4 full-sized DIMM 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 sodium's are a 200 contact point standard full-sized imps actually have 288 so on here we've got a couple of different things we've got whatever-the-hell a virtual fuses apparently it's patented we've got a jumper I mean there's no manual obviously so I'm gonna assume the defaults are all right 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 to run in quad channel with the existing 30 200 megahertz ddr4 that's on this platform and I want to see if I can get the whole thing to still run it 30 200 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 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 there definitely is RAM installed even aside from these sodium to dim adapters so I'm gonna try reseeding them go go go and then firing it up again balls no okay I'm gonna try the memo okay button I've never used it successfully shot Brendan okay let's try clear CMOS there 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 so dim so I don't know if it's reading that off the SPD chip or if that mean it must be it must because how about Windows have any way of knowing ok so we're just finishing up the i-264 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 reading right 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 20 400 megahertz but I don't know where it's reading that from because these adaptors 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 gonna do we're not gonna try and run at 3,800 that's not realistic but let's try sort of high-speed like 3000 megahertz and see if we can get there mm-hmm it's looping right now you can tell cuz 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 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 and well you there's no adapter the other way around because a full-sized am physically wouldn't wouldn't 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 to 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 Jet's 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 recommend it if you need them to go ahead and pick them up speaking of going ahead and picking something up why not picking up a subscription to fresh books fresh books is the online cloud-based accounting solution that makes it easier to run your small business or freelance operation you can create and send professional-looking invoices in less 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