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D820 vs D830

Discussion in 'Dell Latitude, Vostro, and Precision' started by oldjarhead, Jul 8, 2010.

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  1. chevy05

    chevy05 Notebook Consultant

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    I have a D820 in which I have 4GB of memory. I went from Vista to XP, and now have Windows 7 64 bit. Love it. The D820 appears to recognize my 4GB of memory but the Nvida video card does reserve 256MB for a total of 512MB of video memory. As far as the faulty graphic chips go, my Nvidia chip is of the 7300 family of chipsets. The chips with the problems were in the 8000 series of chips that were used in the D630 & D830 notebooks among others. I investigated the Nvidia issue several places when this came about as it is an issue that will eventually happen to most of the computers with the faulty chip.
     
    chevy05, Jul 12, 2010
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    oldjarhead Notebook Enthusiast

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    One more data point that makes me go "hmmm": I just swapped the RAM around again and put 3 GB in the D820. Then I ripped the DVD again. This time it took only 29 minutes (compared to 35 with 4 GB of RAM). Any ideas on why it's faster with less RAM?
     
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