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    Amateur questions on the r1 and r3

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by tomcannon, May 21, 2012.

  1. tomcannon

    tomcannon Notebook Consultant

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    Ok guys firstly I apologise about the noob questions and my lack of searching, although the forum search seems to be down?

    Basically I have a certain situation and want advice about how to go about it.

    I currently own an r3 just purchased from dell with 6gb ram and the standard 750gb HDD. I have also purchased a second hand r1 with very low spec, 2gb ram and 250gb HDD.

    Now, I want to upgrade the r1 to semi decent spec by upgrading the ram and a larger HDD. The plan being to purchase this ram and a crucial 256M4 SSD. I can then put this ram and SSD in to the r3 and put the 6gb of ram from the r3 in to the r1 and the 750gb HDD from the r3 in to the r1 thus improving the both.

    My noob question to you guys is will it all work like that with no compatibility issues. The r3 ram and HDD will be compatible with the r1?
     
    tomcannon, May 21, 2012
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  2. ForeverZen

    ForeverZen Notebook Deity

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    It is compatible, even if the ram is higher clocked than what the r1 should have it will just run at whatever the mobo supports. and the hdd's have the same connections.
     
    ForeverZen, May 21, 2012
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  3. tomcannon

    tomcannon Notebook Consultant

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    Brilliant. Sorted!
     
    tomcannon, May 21, 2012
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  4. ForeverZen

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    Smashing!!!
     
    ForeverZen, May 21, 2012
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  5. Rishwin

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    Ya will work, but max RAM freq on the R1 is 800MHz so it will scale down - my 1600MHz patriot sticks scale down to 6-6-6-14 timings.
     
    Rishwin, May 21, 2012
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    I did a similar thing. I put my R3 RAMs and HD into my old R1. Everything went awesomely.
     
    Descalzo, May 22, 2012
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