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    What is the best SO-DIMM RAM DDR2?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by OUTSIDE, Nov 27, 2008.

  1. OUTSIDE

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    I want to upgrade my XPS M1730...

    It has the T9300 (I will buy the X9000) and I want to knwo what is the best RAM that I can put on it...

    Now has 2x2GB DDR2 667 (Samsung) of factory...

    The Kingston HyperX DDR2 800 2x2GB are good? Are something better?

    I can buy the KHX6400S2LLK2/4G with CL5 for 65€...

    Is better CL4 with 667 or CL5 with 800?

    Can anyone help me?

    Thx for all!

    ByE!
     
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    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    Your chipset only supports up to 667mhz for the RAM.

    If you use a 800mhz module it will work but it will downclock down to 667mhz which a waste of money.

    As for CAS latency and timings, performance increase is little and not worth it.

    I suggest sticking to your current setup and spend the money on some other upgrade. You will be pretty dissapointed if you do go ahead with this upgrade.
     
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  3. OUTSIDE

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    Which kind of upgrade? BD drive?

    Thx!

    ByE!
     
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    Since your already buying a x9000 CPU, a faster hard drive will increase the performance more.

    What is your current hard drive?
     
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    I have the first of 7200rpm (200GB) and a secondary of 250GB (5400rpm)

    I think to put a SSD as first and the 200GB @ 7200 as secondary...

    How do you see?

    Thx!

    ByE!
     
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    hotrent1 Notebook Consultant

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    x9000 cpu, Intel Extreme SLC SSD drive as first, 7200 rpm as secondary, 8 gb of ram, x64 Vista OS. Latest bios, Latest Chipset Drivers from Intel, and you will have a real screamer.
     
    hotrent1, Nov 28, 2008
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