Crucial 8GB DDR3 1600 SODIMM (v. spot the difference)

[Stereodude]

So Crucial says this 8GB DDR3 1600 SODIMM is compatible with the HP Elitebook 840 G1 I have on order. Of course it turns out that part number CT5044300 is pretty much only sold by Crucial directly. How is it different from this 8GB DDR3 1600 SODIMM that I can buy at a variety of retailers? The specs are exactly the same. Is it really likely they've done something to the SPD on the CT5044300 SODIMM that makes it "compatible"?

Yes, I realize they're the same price at Crucial, but I was hoping to watch for a deal on the widely available CT102464BF160B SODIMM.

 

[Bozo]

Maybe HP requires something 'special' to work in their notebooks???
Possibly it's such a low volume item, nobody stocks it???

 

[Mercutio]

I suspect that it's more a matter of having a validated configuration for a mobile workstation. Just like you sometimes want to buy HP hard drives for HP servers.

 

[Stereodude]

I suspect that it's more a matter of having a validated configuration for a mobile workstation. Just like you sometimes want to buy HP hard drives for HP servers.

But unless the configuration is different why would you have two different SKU's, especially at the same price? Wouldn't you just validate the standard product?

 

[Mercutio]

Maybe to justify a higher price for large organizational buyers?

 

[Stereodude]

Well, this is the stick of DDR3L that's in the HP Elitebook 840 G1 I got. Specifically the E1 revision.

 

[Stereodude]

So I bought a stick on ebay of the same Micron memory (exact same part number as what came in the 840 G1) and the system wouldn't even POST with the eBay stick in it. The system flashed out a code for a bad memory module. :cursin:

The RAM is now on its way back to the eBay seller and I've already received a refund.

 

[LunarMist]

So I bought a stick on ebay of the same Micron memory (exact same part number as what came in the 840 G1) and the system wouldn't even POST with the eBay stick in it. The system flashed out a code for a bad memory module. :cursin:

The RAM is now on its way back to the eBay seller and I've already received a refund.

So it was a cunterfeit?

 

[Stereodude]

So it was a cunterfeit?

counterfeit or damaged / bad. The seller was selling many of them, and have decent feedback, so probably the latter.

 

[Handruin]

So it was a cunterfeit?

I sounded that word in my head with a German accent making it all the better.

 

[LunarMist]

I sounded that word in my head with a German accent making it all the better.

In German we often start with a K before vowels.

 

[Stereodude]

In German we often start with a K before vowels.

Are you German?

 

[CougTek]

Buck is German.

 

[Howell]

Lunar wrote something else recently that made me think he was German. German spelling of something I think.

 

[timwhit]

You'll have to contact the NSA to find out who Lunar is.

 

[Handruin]

You'll have to contact the NSA to find out who Lunar is.

I don't even think they know who he is.

 

[Stereodude]

I don't even think they know who he is.

Of course they do. He's a contractor working for them.

 

[timwhit]

Of course they do. He's a contractor working for them.

Nice.

 

[Stereodude]

Nice.

What else did you think all that travel and camera talk was about?

Surveillance