I have an HP Pavilion DV5T that's running Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 with Hyper-V as well as SQL Server 2008 x64 (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS), MOSS 2007 Enterprise, Visual Studio 2008, PerformancePoint Server 2007 x64 and VMWare Workstation so I most definitely need it. It supports up to 8GB of RAM and it came with 8GB of RAM, but I helped out a couple of my employees with RAM and took their 2GB sticks and am paying the price now. I had to move to eSata external drives in addition to SATA 7200rpm drives internally to help out with the tremendous throughput requirements I have. Once SQL and MOSS start up, I'm pretty close to tapped out on memory, so will I use that 8GB, you bet! The question is, do I have to give up a liver in order to get my hands on 2 sticks (4gb each and 800mhz)?.?.?.
Thanks,
Jason