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    addition to my 8510P questions..

    Discussion in 'HP' started by halberdklown, Sep 29, 2007.

  1. halberdklown

    halberdklown Notebook Guru

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    i just received the 8510p from shopblt.com and was thinking of switching its 160GB Serial ATA 5400 rpm harddrive with a HITACHI Travelstar 7K200 HTS722020K9SA00 (0A50940) 200GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Notebook Hard Drive...any suggestions? it has windows xp and only came with 1 gb of ram, i was also thinking of adding a 2gb stick of ram as well from Newegg, but i hear about some duel channel stuff and should i add a 2gb stick or just another 1? any help would be appreciated thanks!@
     
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    so sorry i meant 8510P
     
    halberdklown, Sep 29, 2007
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    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    The Hitachi should be fine with that system. As for as memory goes you can add 2GBX1 stick or 1GBX2 and get dual channel. Dual channel doubles your effective bandwidth available but most of the times you wont really reach the limits even whe running without dual channel. Any performance benefit from running in DC is pretty minimal. If you have plans to upgrade to 4GB in the future then buying 1X2GB makes sense but if you are happy with upgrading to 2GB and dont mind replacing both sticks if you want to upgrade then 1X2GB would be optimum.
     
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    Just add the 2 GB stick with the 1 GB stick. 3 GB of RAM will outperform 2 GB dual channel. Plus half of the 2 GB stick will dual channel with the 1 GB stick. Overall, dual channel doesn't really do that much. More RAM is pretty much always better than a smaller amount of RAM dual channeled. About the 7k200, I actually have that running right now in my 8510p as I'm typing this.
     
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