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    WUR specs finally arrived, any advice?

    Discussion in 'Alienware M15x' started by Aliened, Mar 31, 2011.

  1. Aliened

    Aliened Notebook Consultant

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    As I was hoping I got a CPU upgrade to the 840QM cuz the 740QM is out of stock. They gave me 6GB of RAM too, instead of the original 4GB, so the question arises here as how are the 6GB going to perform with the lack of the dual-channel advantages? They are trying to replace the 260M with a 5730, they are crazy if they think I'm going to fall for that, I just replied saying that the least I'm going to accept is a 5850 or if they want (hopefully) a 460M.
     
  2. widezu69

    widezu69 Goodbye Alienware

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    Dual channel has nothing to do with the memory size. You can have the weirdest combination of sizes but if your ram SPEEDS are the same then it will be fine. If you are running say 1066 and 1333, the latter will only run at 1066. It is all fine.
     
  3. Aliened

    Aliened Notebook Consultant

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    lol... thanks man, all this time I thought that both RAM sticks had to be of the same size :eek: I'm glad to know I was wrong :D
     
  4. widezu69

    widezu69 Goodbye Alienware

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    Sorry man edited post it was meant to say combination of sizes but you got the picture :)
     
  5. katalin_2003

    katalin_2003 NBR Spectre Super Moderator

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    And CAS latency should be the same at the same speed if different brands.

    cheers
     
  6. alvinkhorfire

    alvinkhorfire Notebook Consultant

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    Aliened

    Just go for 6 GB RAM and you will not regret it. I will now quote my previous reply on the same issue.

     
  7. Gr8gorilla

    Gr8gorilla Notebook Geek

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    Ed, after the Hell you went through you deserve all of the Upgrades, including the 5850 (Better for games than the 460, right?) Any way man, congrats!
     
  8. Aliened

    Aliened Notebook Consultant

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    Thanks for the replies guys. About the 5850 being better at gaming than the 460 I don't think so Gr8gorilla, it's better than the 260M but with the 460 you get a lot more fps, take a look to this graphic I made based on the benchmark results of notebookcheck.net on high settings (the title is on Spanish cuz I made it for the latinamerican dell agent).

    [​IMG]
     
  9. Gr8gorilla

    Gr8gorilla Notebook Geek

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    I believe those are stock clocks and I could be totally wrong here, but my understanding was that the 5850 was highly overclockable (much more than the 460) and that when over clocked it would outperform the 460. Once again, I could be totally and completely wrong.

    Perhaps someone like Inap or The Revelator could step in and clarify?
     
  10. xlawx

    xlawx Notebook Evangelist

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    i play starcraft 2 and i get around 57 ish and thats max setting except for post processing and shadow i leave on high
     
  11. widezu69

    widezu69 Goodbye Alienware

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    Yeah from what I have seen, the GTX 460m even taken to the max (like the one in my sig) does not beat a 5850 that is taken to the max. The 5850 can achieve over 10k GPU score in vantage, a GTX 460m cannot. Stock for stock, the 460m is quicker. Overclocked, the 5850 can surpass it in many games, maybe not all, but many.
     
  12. Mexic00ls

    Mexic00ls Notebook Deity

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    keep in mind that the dell 460 is underclocked, so u would have to flash it, or just keep overclocking it to get better results than the ati 5850