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    Let's talk... RAM!

    Discussion in 'Alienware 18 and M18x' started by ratchet916, Aug 27, 2013.

  1. Mr. Fox

    Mr. Fox BGA Filth-Hating Elitist

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    No, I don't think so. I believe that may be an error in XTU. Zero may mean "auto" instead of manual override. I'm not even sure there is such a thing as 0T.
     
    Mr. Fox, Aug 3, 2014
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  2. Meaker@Sager

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    It's been a LONG time since I have played around with 0 level timings lol, it has to be 1 or 2, so yes 0 would be an issue with detection or a default setting.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Aug 3, 2014
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  3. enjoytokillyourself

    enjoytokillyourself Notebook Guru

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    is there someone that have tried the patriot viper 1866cl10 ?
     
    enjoytokillyourself, Aug 3, 2014
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    woodzstack Alezka Computers , Official Clevo reseller.

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    Honestly, I've not seen RAM perform any better in multiple years. Its as if they hit a huge bottleneck and have yet to overcome it, and its been like 4-5 years now.
     
    woodzstack, Aug 3, 2014
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    Probably the same mentality as what we see coming from Intel/AMD/NVIDIA... why make something superior to yesterday's best when people are still happy to spend gobs of money on "new tech" that is little more than a repackaged product year-over-year. A little tweak here, a little tweak there, and they get away with it, LOL. They have no incentive to do better because too many people believe most of the marketing hype and are in a big hurry to buy something better to be bothered with pausing to find out whether or not it really is. In fact, they have already proven they can peddle something with the same or less performance simply by giving it a new name or model number and pretending it's better.
     
    Mr. Fox, Aug 4, 2014
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  6. Hackintoshihope

    Hackintoshihope AlienMeetsApple

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    YES YES YES YES... This is what I live by when purchasing anything
     
    Hackintoshihope, Aug 5, 2014
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    RAM is getting faster but it's not really holding anything but IGP performance back.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Aug 6, 2014
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    Well think about it even now igp's are starting to get some dedicated memory.
     
    Hackintoshihope, Aug 6, 2014
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  9. enjoytokillyourself

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    hi is it possible to install 2x1600mhzcl11 original from AW whit 2x4gb 1866mhzcl10 from patriot ,,, why i want to trying the patriot but i dont want to tear down all
     
    enjoytokillyourself, Aug 9, 2014
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    Yes it should work but the speed and timings will be set to the slowest stick in the system.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Aug 9, 2014
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