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Knest   08-22-2009 at 06:02:56 PM

Does anyone have instructions on how to remove the DVD drive housing in the Gateway SX2800 series? I want to the memory, but the drive housing obscures 2 of the 4 slots. Gateway tech support was unable to answer this, and naturally the two easily accessible slots were populated with the default memory.

Thanks in advance.

Bo

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ncarn8ntt   09-01-2009 at 02:48:55 AM

Hi Bo, I just finished doing that. Two screws in the back release the side panel. Then you pull very gently, one at a time, on the three, newly exposed black plastic tabs that hold the entire front, plastic cover on to the cabinet. Once those tabs are unhooked from their slots, the front cover swings out on hinges to the opposite side. At that point all that's left is to remove the two well exposed screws holding the dvd drive in place, move the drive aside, and you have full access to the ram slots.
I moved the included GDDR3 8500 to the secondary slots, and placed my faster, add-on GDDR3 10600 in the default slots. I don't know that it makes a difference, but it seemed reasonable. I hope it goes well for you.

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Knest   09-01-2009 at 06:13:08 AM

Thanks for the reply. I finally did figure it out, but given the lack of instructions or awareness on the part of Gateway's tech support, I have no doubt that others are going to find your post very useful.

As for the placement of the memory modules, I do believe that when combining different chips, all will run at the speed of the slowest one (sort of the weakest link in a chain principle). If I'm wrong about that, someone will surely post a correction.

Bo

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ncarn8ntt   09-02-2009 at 12:37:32 AM

The weakest link theory sounds reasonable. It's OK since the GDDR3 8500 and 10600 were priced identically. I don't know why you wanted to add RAM. I did it for faster photo editing. I uploaded 25 6MB photos today in just a couple of seconds. I'm very, very pleased with the machine.

I'm glad for this site. Given the nature of Gateway's support, we really are on our own.

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applejak_2000   09-11-2009 at 02:43:46 AM

I would like to ask if I replace the 2G GDDR3 8500 that came with the sx2800 with 2G GDDR3 10600 will I see faster editing in Photoshop for example? What's the fastest GDDR3 RAM that this system will support/run?

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