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    Santa Rosa upto 8GB RAM ??

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by odessa, May 27, 2008.

  1. odessa

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    they are bs-ing about it
     
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  3. odessa

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    Who AW or EUROCOM ? :confused:
     
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    eurocommmm
     
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    buy one then sue them!
     
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    PC MicroWorks is stating the same thing... 8 gigs of RAM + a gig of graphics memory, 9 Gigs...

    9800M GTX...
     
    Jayonhavok, May 27, 2008
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    2x4 gig RAM cards?
     
    Outphaze, May 27, 2008
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    pc mircoworks doesnt promote the santa rosa its a montevina.....
     
    Alienwarez, May 27, 2008
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    link plzzz
     
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    but its no good to us as vista 32bit will only use just over 3gb and 64bit no hardware works with it.
    catch 22.

    also noticed:
    nVIDIA Geforce 9800M GTS 512MB DDR3 EXTREME GPU ETA 6/30 [-150]
    nVIDIA Geforce 8800M GTX 512MB DDR3 EXTREME GPU

    the 9800 is 150 less than the 8800
    any idea why?
     
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    lol you guys are killing me, the "edge" aka m860tu equid with montevina.
     
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    @DJ, the montevina supports 8GB ram, you just need 64bit vista installed to recognize them.
    9800m gts is slower than 8800m gtx, thus cheaper.
     
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    thanks for that.
    i understand about the 64bit but will any hardware actually work with it.
     
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    as i said the montevina platform will do. you will probably seeing lot of notebook with 8GB ram after September.
    little extra info: Mac actually supports 8gb ram since a year ago
     
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    Very simply the 9800 is a GTS not GTX
     
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    Even more to the point its a 9800m - so what level are mobiles up to in comparison with desktops? about 8 series???? yay....
     
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    well the 8800m gtx is about the same power as the 8800 gts in a desktop.
     
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    I really want to know how muc better is the 9800m GTX compare to 8800mGTX
     
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    well with 64bit OS, why not? you'd just need more RAM slots...
     
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    So if that is the case this is another example of a Santa Rosa supporting up to 8GB. As far as I know the chip set is able to support such capacity. Does any one knows more about this ?

    I read some info about Montevina but I could not find any info about, that with this new generation an increase of 8GB RAM capacity could be achieved.
     
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    It's been said that it is 10% faster and consumes less power, and emanates less heat, so that's good for your system. I think it's smaller as well (not sure about that though)...
     
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    why is that big excitement on 8gb of ram :p it wont do that GREAT difference over 4gigs will it?
     
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    That is correct if you consider a crappy OS live VISTA, but in Linux that is not the case.

    BTW you can have a 4 GB RAM DISK which will improve and reduce the access to your HD.
     
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    I was talking to an AW Sales support guy and he told me that m17x is capable of going up to 8GB and @ the moment AW does allow you to configure your system in that way, because according to him is excessive?

    Excessive with the current Microsoft OS probably. But for my pesonal point of view if I buy an m17x is to have it for at least 4-5 years without worrying me about not enough HD space or RAM.

    I bought 5 years ago my sony srx-77 and @ that time 256 MB was more than enough and today we find average systems whit 2 GB, that is 8 times more than what I have in my old lappy :(
     
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    The Santa Rosa Chipset can address up to 8 gigs of space. It has the same problem as napa had with 4 gig. If you put 8 gigs of RAM, then you will probably be able to see/use about 6-7 gigs due to the limitation of the chipset (some memory will go to gfx card, chipset, etc...), even WITH a 64-bit OS...
     
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    Do we have the same issue with Montevina ?
     
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    Dunno, it's not out yet.
     
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    what is AW m15x chipset?
     
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    santa rosa
     
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    ok, advice on this quoat.
    good- bad or what

    EUROCOM M57RU DIVINE-X £2,156 GBP
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    DJ why don't you buy it from a UK retailer?
     
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    i didnt know it was for sale in the uk. ive never seen this make before.
    what do you think of the spec.
    thanks for that Nirvana, ill have a look for it tonight.
     
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    thanks for that info Nirvana, i will look into it tonight.
     
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