Silicon Power 8GB DDR3 1600MHz (PC3 12800) 240-pin CL11 1.35V SODIMM Laptop Memory Module - Low Voltage and Power Saving

So, my dad had me take a look at his old laptop to update the OS, and such. While I was in there, being the tech guy I am, I swapped out the HDD for a new SSD I had lying around and upgraded the RAM in it, 'cause it was just being a slow, dead dog of a system with the old mechanical HDD & barely sufficient 4GB RAM. Anyway, long and short of it, I bought a matched pair of these 8GB PC3L [low power DDR3] SO-DIMMs [laptop memory, by-and-large], and swapped out the 4GB for 16GB. Then I cloned the 500GB HDD to a 500GB SSD, and swapped that in, and now it's off to the races. Boots in about 10 seconds, and is pretty snappy and responsive. Now it's just AMD A8 CPU-bound for the most part, rather than being HDD/RAM bound. By and large it performs quite nicely now. Swapped in the ram, restarted, and it pretty much just booted right in, no errors or issues. For the money, it's a great value, IMO. Don't know the brand, per se. I mean it's not Kingston, Micron, Samsung, etc. But, to some degree, RAM is RAM, as long as it works and meets spec. As far as I can tell, the memory seemed to run fine and had no issues / glitches / blue screens indicating any DOA issues, etc. So, it served its purpose. And since I ordered through Amazon, it arrived in all of like a day or two. Though I could have gotten it in 1 day if I'd not missed the midnight cutoff by like 3 minutes while I was checking on this and that. But that's an Amazon fulfillment thing and shouldn't reflect negatively on the RAM itself, which works fine as far as I can tell and seemed perfectly fit for purpose. And since it's PC3L [low power], if I recall correctly it's capable of running at like 1.35v but can also run at the full 1.5v in systems that aren't low-power. So, it's like dual-voltage, or whatever, so should work in either low-voltage or regular voltage laptops and such. Can't comment on gaming performance, as that's not the purpose of this laptop, but presumably it'll work just fine in a gaming laptop. If I recall correctly it's CL11 which is reasonably fast timings or whatever? Doubt if anyone will ever really notice the difference between that and like CL9 or whatever? But, who knows? Anyway, worked fine for the purpose it was purchased for. So, yay for that. Breathed some new life into an old dinosaur of a laptop [along with the SSD, which probably honestly does a lot of the heavy lifting and is more impactful than the RAM; but bumping up to the full 16GB of RAM helps too].

BEST BANG FOR YOUR BUCK !!! I have a HP revolve 810 that came with 8GB( 2x 4GB sticks) and it was slowing down with all my open tabs and windows. So I ordered this 8GB stick for 50% more memory !! I popped the bottom cover off, swapped out my 4GB stick and installed this SP 8Gb stick. and BAM !!!!!!! My pc recognized it without errors!! Took only 10 minutes !! Been working great the last few weeks NO ISSUES !!!

Good purchase.

It was the right price and easy to install

Easy install, so far so 👍

Easy to install no errors on the computer the replacement fixed my problem

inherited old laptop from son&his wife, laptop was a dog, replaced 8GB of RAM (2x4GB) with this memory (2x8GB) and it worked as expected. Also replaced spinny disk with 1TB SSD which probably had a greater effect on the performance: reinstalled Windows 10 booted in 10 seconds on a 9-10 yo laptop. Best I can say so far is that the memory fit as expected, is recognized as expected, and so far has been problem free. Being old tech it was also inexpensive.

I installed it and the laptop recognized the 16 GB and work smooth. Good product. thanks you