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    Xps 1530

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Supermiguel, Jan 7, 2009.

  1. Supermiguel

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    I bought an XPS 1530 few months ago, back then dell just offered 4gb of ram i just went to their web site and they are offering 8gb of ram... Has anyone had any experience with this 8gb??/ i though the mb didnt support it.
     
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    I believe one of the recent BIOS updates allows for 8 GB RAM, so if you're going to upgrade make sure you're on the latest BIOS. I've not installed 8 personally, but there were a couple of threads in the XPS forum indicating success.

    Of course you'll need to be running a 64-bit OS to utilize that additional RAM. How much did Dell want for it?
     
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    dell wants 400... newegg like 375... i may stay with 4gb for a bit :p
     
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    Yeah that's pretty salty, especially if you're already on 4 GB. I'm having a hard time seeing the benefit of 8 GB over 4 GB at that price, for my purposes anyway. I have 8 GB on my main desktop but that's used for a lot more stuff than my notebook.

    It'd be one thing if you could just add 4 GB to the 4 GB already there, but I'm guessing the existing 4 GB is 2+2, meaning that it'd all have to be dumped to go to 4+4.
     
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