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    Dell E1505 Processor and Memory?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by russellwc1, May 13, 2007.

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    russellwc1 Newbie

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    I am getting ready to buy a Dell E1505 notebook and I am going to get the Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T5300 (2MB Cache/1.73GHz/533MHz FSB) processor and the 160GB 5400 RPM SATA Hard Drive. I am want to know if the 1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz, 2 Dimm or 1GB DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHZ, 2 DIMM memory options will work fine with them. I do plan on doing some multitasking.
     
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  2. Charles P. Jefferies

    Charles P. Jefferies Lead Moderator Super Moderator

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    Whether you get the 533MHz memory or the 667MHz memory makes no difference. Go with the cheaper option.

    The configuration you have sounds fine. How much are you prepared to spend?
     
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    I plan to spend around $900 for everything. Thanks I just wanted to know because I heard that Vista takes up a lot of space and can use up a lot of memory
     
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    FREN Hi, I'm a PC. NBR Reviewer

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    Yeah, that's completely true, but for a budget of $900, I think 2 GB of RAM is out of the picture. You're better off just going with 1 GB of RAM for now. Vista takes up about 700-800 MB of RAM, so there won't be any real serious RAM bottlenecks for your system.
     
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