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    Finally made the upgrade...

    Discussion in 'Alienware Area-51/Aurora and Legacy Systems' started by EviLCorsaiR, Dec 18, 2010.

  1. EviLCorsaiR

    EviLCorsaiR Asura

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    from 2GB to 8GB of RAM. I've long meant to upgrade the RAM; the cost of an 8GB kit has come down sufficiently enough now that I decided to get one.

    It's also the first time I've touched computer components myself. Quite satisfying to do the upgrade myself.

    What finally pushed me is that the RAM was starting to become the limiting factor in some games, so it would seem. In higher texture levels, it'd stutter like hell with extreme hard drive activity, and as when I looked it was the pagefile, I assumed that was RAM related.

    I've got a Momentus XT in the mail as well. That should give a nice boost too.
     
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  2. James D

    James D Notebook Prophet

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    My congratulations! Some people don't understand why RAM is needed. I have 6 GB DDR3-1333 in my laptop. Just interesting what type of RAM do you have?
     
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    It's OCZ DDR3 1066MHz, 8-8-8-20 timings.

    The irony is they said the RAM would be delivered Monday and the Momentus XT today, but the RAM arrived today...I still hope they don't get mixed up and send me more RAM...

    I always used to argue that upgrading to 8GB or even 6GB wasn't significant enough to justify the cost, unless you needed it for CAD or whatever. In all fairness, the upgrade from 4GB to 6GB in the Dell config used to cost three times what I paid for my 8GB kit, when I was arguing this. I now think they've come down in price enough to justify upgrading; only cost me £110.
     
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    Yeah. The cheapest way is to buy a notebook with 2 GB then buy 8 GB in internet shop and try to sell old 2 GB.
     
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    granyte ATI+AMD -> DAAMIT

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    i did the upgrade a couple of week ago but now that we have 8gb (2x4gb) the 8gb stick are out so we can now aspire to upgrade to 16 gb

    honestly i don't see much diference with 8gb te most i can say i see is i can now tab from Starcraft 2 straight into crysis with supreme commander in the background

    but the machine is not faster just feels even more like a bulldozer 40mph but 40mph no mather what

    i'm waiting on my qx9300 to go faster there is a momentus XT comming with it but i'm having a hard time figuring if i wanna keep my itachi raid or if i'd be better with a momentus and a itachi as separate drive
     
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    Yeah, but you probably went from 4GB to 8GB. That's not as much of a difference than between 2GB and 8GB. The whole system feels snappier now and the RAM is no longer a limiting factor in some games.

    8GB wasn't much more expensive than 4GB so that's why I went for 8. I thought, why the hell not go all the way?

    I'd personally run the Momentus XT and an itachi as a seperate drive. Once the Momentus XT learns the file associations, it'll read faster than any hard drive RAID configuration.
     
    EviLCorsaiR, Dec 19, 2010
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    granyte ATI+AMD -> DAAMIT

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    right but i also have a iTM module 4 GB (i'm curretly unsure if it's working as windows tell me it's but the itm control panel tell me not) everything feels snapier
    but that's also after formating and giving windows it's private 50 GB partition and throwing all the rest to the 800GB remaining
     
    granyte, Dec 19, 2010
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