My friend needs some help

[Phoenix_]

Oddly enough, I help my friends build PCs for themselves but I never built a PC for my own use due to the financial situation I am in.

 

But, that's a topic for another day, today I have come to ask a question after googling I'm still unsure of it's possibility. My friend wants to take some of the components from his old laptop (in specific, the 16GB of RAM and the 1TB hard drive) and put them into a desktop. Would there be any way for him to custom fit the RAM and hard drive to the case of his new PC? Or will he just have to buy a new hard drive and some new RAM?

[Elemental]

Hard drive is easy. Hard drives don't need to fit exactly, you can just make a makeshift holder. Heck, if it's in a stationary desktop it doesn't even need to be 100% secure in place.

 

The RAM is a different story. You have to compare the RAM types of the ones in the laptop and what fits in the desktops motherboard.

Even if, they are both, say DDR3 for example, I'm not 100% sure laptop-fitted RAM would also fit into a regular desktop motherboard

EDIT: After googling some, laptop RAM is reduced in size physically, so it probably won't be able to fit unless you use some kind of adapter(?). And even then, it might have less capacity because of the adapter

[Post]

Hard drive is easy. Hard drives don't need to fit exactly, you can just make a makeshift holder. Heck, if it's in a stationary desktop it doesn't even need to be 100% secure in place.

 

The RAM is a different story. You have to compare the RAM types of the ones in the laptop and what fits in the desktops motherboard.

Even if, they are both, say DDR3 for example, I'm not 100% sure laptop-fitted RAM would also fit into a regular desktop motherboard

EDIT: After googling some, laptop RAM is reduced in size physically, so it probably won't be able to fit unless you use some kind of adapter(?). And even then, it might have less capacity because of the adapter

 

This is correct. The harddrive will most likely be able to be installed as normal, but I'm pretty sure none of the other componenrs will work unless you put the whole laptop inside a desktop case and call it a desktop :^)

 

On a serious note though. HDD most likely will work, but the ram will indeed be too small to fit inside a normal desktop motherboard unless he had some super beast laptop with desktop grade shit in it.

 

 

-Post

[Phoenix_]

Hard drive is easy. Hard drives don't need to fit exactly, you can just make a makeshift holder. Heck, if it's in a stationary desktop it doesn't even need to be 100% secure in place.

 

The RAM is a different story. You have to compare the RAM types of the ones in the laptop and what fits in the desktops motherboard.

Even if, they are both, say DDR3 for example, I'm not 100% sure laptop-fitted RAM would also fit into a regular desktop motherboard

EDIT: After googling some, laptop RAM is reduced in size physically, so it probably won't be able to fit unless you use some kind of adapter(?). And even then, it might have less capacity because of the adapter

 

This is correct. The harddrive will most likely be able to be installed as normal, but I'm pretty sure none of the other componenrs will work unless you put the whole laptop inside a desktop case and call it a desktop :^)

 

On a serious note though. HDD most likely will work, but the ram will indeed be too small to fit inside a normal desktop motherboard unless he had some super beast laptop with desktop grade shit in it.

 

 

-Post

 

Thanks guys, he was just trying to save a little money. Thanks for the help once again.