Vostro 1500 8600m GT RAM?

I was under the impression that the video RAM in the 8600GT installed in my Vostro 1500 was DDR2, but the information reading from the card is showing DDR3.

Has Dell installed the wrong card in my machine--lucky me? Or, is the info reading from the card wrong? I am using PC Wizard to get the card information.

 

its ddr2. nothing wrong there.

 

I know that it is supposed to be DDR2.

My question is why it is reading DDR3?

 

Because thats what the program thinks it is. It doesnt actually read the card for the ram type, it just looks up 8600m gt in its data base and says its ddr3 when it can be either.

 

The other posters are right, it is just the program reading it wrong. it is just unlikely that Dell will make a new card model: 8600m GT with DDR3 that use Vostro's graphic card assembly.

 

This makes sense to me--I kind of thought that it was just using a generic description.

It is still very close to as fast as the M1530 that I returned. I like the build on this a lot better. It is solid!

 

Glad you like your purchase, I love the Vostro as well, it looks so sturdy and has the "made to last" look.

Edit: and Feel

 

anyone getting shinny keys? mine are turning very shine ( 5 hours of use a day)

 

Nope, because I am using something like this:

 

where did you get it and how much i want one, will it cause heat issues, and is there a way to get rid of shine before applying the cover?

Thanks again pai

 

Hmm, I received this cover as a gift from a friend who purchased it in China. The company that manufactures it is called "Cooskin". D Chinglish). Since it is from China, it was obviously not very expensive. I wouldn't say there's an heat issue, but it does "trap" heat around the keyboard quite a bit. To be honest sometimes the keyboard can get a little warm and cause my hands to sweat, probably because i naturally sweat alot (TRUST me not a good trait to have, it does nothing good really besides helping you feel cooler, sweating is a way of cooling). However, it isn't warm enough to cause an significant increase in the laptop temperatures for say CPU and GPU. I don't think there's a way to remove the "shine" since it is a physical wear.

They seems to offer email and phone sales support, you can give that a try and see if you can place an order that way.

Here's the link to Cooskin's official website:

EDIT: Also, the vostro keyboard feels pretty warm without the cover anyways, it seems that the vostro is designed to vent heat through the keyboard, therefore, regardless of having the cover or not the keyboard will always be warm.

 

Thanks pai!