Has anyone tried PC5300 667mhz RAM in the e1505?

I know theoretically the e1505 should support PC5300 667mhz ram... Im just curious if anyone has actually tried it... and what kind of performance gains they got out of it.

Anyone?

 

I purchased a Corsair 1gb stick from newegg and I am running it now. I have not really compared the performances. All I can say is that the free 1gb that came with it was some brand that I have never heard of.

 

Did yours come with 1gb ram free in one stick? mine came with 2 512mb's.

 

i ordered up the 667mhz 1gb ram sticks sold by dell 2 of them..they work that all i can say...

 

I saw the 667mhz on the Dell web site today. I wonder if my new 1505 now has the 667? How can you check without taking the RAM out?

 

I think the stock RAM that the E1505 comes with is stock 533mhz. However if you want more or faster RAM, zipzoomfly and newegg are always great places to shop.

 

when i ordered my computer i got the 512, 533mhz..knowingly i was going to upgrade to the 2gb 667mhz dell offers in its Ram section alone..actually buying it from the RAM area of dell is cheaper than buying 2gb of ram when you select the options of your computer..i got my Dell Ram 2GB 667mhz for only $240..i think dell wanted over $300 Extra for the 2GB 533mhz...go figure!!

 

$240? You can get two 1gb sticks of DDR667 for $90 each on newegg.

 

I am running 2 1gb Patroit 667mhz ram. Can't tell you much about performance though, I didn't get it thinking I could shave 2 seconds off loading Photoshop.

 

None of the reports I've read report it as being any noticeably faster, obviously it is faster, but only faster in a means your system can see, not likely the human eye.

It's not about just haveing one single piece of hardware thats faster, it's about adding up all the faster parts when you see the difference. Faster processor, faster front side bus, faster memory, faster hard drive RPM, faster graphics, then you end up with a noticeable difference.

It works in the opposite direction as well, go with all the slower options and the system will obviously be noticeably slower. Add one slow piece of hardware to an otherwise fast system and you get a bottle neck that slows all those otherwise faster components down.

Some of that aftermarket memory out there is total junk though despite what it says on the package. More expensive by the same token doesn't always mean better for quality, sometimes it can just mean better marketed so they can get away with charging more for less.

What I like about shopping at Dell on line for a new laptop vs. buying a prebuilt laptop at the local store is the way you can choose your own hardware and not what the store decided to have built and tossed on the shelf. There aren't very many $6.00 an hour electronics store sales clerks that can afford a $2,000 laptop so it's expected they know actually very little about what they are supposed to be selling, they're more concerned about making enough money to cover the bus fare to get home that night.

What I really wish though is that Dell just put up empty laptop cases and then let you select from all the hardware options available to them that would fit in that case what you wanted to put into the laptop case of your choice. That way a person could end up with the case they really wanted and all the right hardware options for them.

In shopping for a new laptop it's really frustrating to see a case you like, but lacking the features you want, especially when you know there's no reason those features couldn't be in that case. If they let you start with a empty case and go from there it wouldn't matter what model they were hurting by making a different model with slightly better options.

It would make buying a new laptop alot more like going into a place like Fry's electronics and just grabbing the exact hardware you want to custom build your perfect desktop computer, that would be soooo cool!

 

I like to run CPU-Z http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php to see what processors and memory are in systems and what they are running at.

 

I have an e1505 (1.66 ghz) and I did it tonight. Little mishap at first, the single stick has to go in the B slot (not the A slot). Dell user manual (the manual that you can't access when your computer has no RAM in it) says nothing about this, but trial and error of course would lead most to experimenting with both slots. Also, the RAM had to be in tight, tight, tight. After trying both slots and having no luck I got a little worried, but I double checked the RAM specs against crucial.com's memory configurator and it was identical (ergo, my RAM should have worked unless it was DOA). After some tough pushing, the patient eventually came back to life with a new stick in the B SODIMM slot. So far, so good. Got the stick from newegg.com, it was a gigaram 1 GB, cost about $90 (I got rid of the 533mhz stock 512mb piece) .

 

Yeah, well maybe I spoke to soon (re: my post above). I have been having problems rebooting with the new RAM. Thinking about flashing the BIOS. It seems a little unstable right now.

 

You should think about aquiring another stick of the same specifications in order to take advantage of your Dual Channel Memory bus. Basically two sticks of 533fsb memory would run faster than your single stick of 667 as you have more 'lanes' of data traffic.

 

Actually, I'm thinking of RMAing this stick. I just had rebooting problems again tonight, it's for my parents and they can't handle rebooting problems. It just kills me to have 2 sticks that I know I will get rid of in a year or two and upgrade to 2GB.