Anyone know what the RAM specs are on these coming from Xoticpc?

Finally bit the bullet and ordered my whitebook from XoticPC, but I couldn't justify the extra $120 for two more GBs of RAM when I have an extra stick sitting here. The only thing is, the memory I have here has timings and latency of 7-7-7-20, and all the OCZ RAM is see is 8-8-8-27.

p.s.--it appears there was a $50+ price drop today on the whitebook at seveal resellers.

 

what kind of ram did you get from xotic? what make and model is it?? it will be on the sticker on the stick itself. and even still it doesnt matter the ocz has looser timings and yours will be fine. it almost always when you tighten the timings up you have to make sure the ram can handle it.

 

Well it would drop with the 4850 mobility coming out. they want to get rid of them asap.

 

i dont see anyone who has dropped myself. and the ocz's will not have the 48xx until march. i just checked xotic, rk, rjtech and dss and they are the same or higher even than they were before..

 

I didn't receive it yet (just ordered) so I don't know the timings yet on the one I will be receiving.

As for pricing, XoticPC was listing the base price of the whitebook at $1779 on Sunday; on Monday, it is listed at $1725.

RK Computers dropped it to $1755.00; I can't recall what it was before that (plus you can add the promo code fifteen to drop it another $15)

PCMicroworks dropped their's as well by adding $950 to the price then offering a discount of $1000....gotta love those guys.

Now, when you start adding other things the prices of componants may have gone up or down. As for my spec, I was able to get it below $2000 (budgetary considerations require compromises) whereas earlier I was always pushing near $2100

 

im strictly talking about the barebones system it has not changed..

 

Ram was about 40 bucks less if you bought it separately from the notebook. all you have to do then is just insert it. I know coz I bought mine separate.. though I havnt received it yet ...

 

The price for the barebones has not changed, but the price of components has. That's why my prices have dropped. I can't speak for XoticPC or RKC, but I'm guessing it's the same for them.

 

Ahh, I see. I was sorely tempted to go for a barebones and do it myself and save about $150, but then you don't get the 3-year complete care and the no-dead pixel guarantee.

Incidently, XoticPC just added more RAM configurations in the last hour so you can now get this model with 6 or 8 gbs

 

Shane, you may want to look at your website.

I was looking there and there are problems with your shopping cart on the whitebook.

When you make changes to the configuration and click add to the shopping cart, the changes are added, but not the base system.

At least, that is what happened when I tried to use it with the Opera 9.51 and firefox browsers

 

Yeah, I'm in the middle of trying to make the page display a running total and it's not working right. That bug should be fixed now (I still can't figure out what's wrong with my total code...).

 

ok...just wanted to make sure you knew

 

^^ worked fine in chrome and ff3 for me maybe you fixed it by now but i just tried without any issues..

 

I fixed the bug he was referring to

 

How do you get into the BIOS on the Whitebook? Boots too fast. Used to be Ctrl+Alt+Del keys.

I presume there is no way to alter the CAS timings in the BIOS in case you want to overclock the RAM.

 

you can use memset to adjust from within windows i am pretty sure though i have not tried it yet myself but it should work

 

You have hit hit F2 really fast because the Intel screen flies by so quickly. And no, there is no option to mess with the timings in the BIOS.

 

sorry i would have answered that i totally overlooked that part about the bios and f2 key but i will be trying memset to see if it works soon ..

 

Adjustable DDR3 voltages and XMP memory support via the bios was supposed to be an option but has not been implemented yet.

The last info I received from OCZ was that this should be available in a future bios release.