Dell M1530 & Vostro 1500 do these benefit from PC2-6400 (800Mhz) memory?

farooqm · 15 Feb 2008 at 16:02

Dell M1530 (T7500) & Vostro 1500 (T7300) do these benefit from PC-6400 (800Mhz) memory? or is it better to got for PC2-5300 (667Mhz) memory?

Looking to get 2x2Gb to take system up to 4Gb. (I know with 32-bit I'll only see between 3.25-3.5Gb)...

All info welcome before I make my mind up..

Bradmax57 · 15 Feb 2008 at 23:14

with sp1 on vista you will see 4gb

farooqm · 15 Feb 2008 at 23:38

Bradmax57 said:
with sp1 on vista you will see 4gb

Interesting..... didn't know that

do you have a link that confirms this?
Any chance of XP seeing the full 4Gb. I still find XP faster when running games.

Slinky1989 · 15 Feb 2008 at 23:45

All sp1 does is let you know how much is installed. Not how much windows is registering. It will still register about 3.2-3.5 gb of ram if it's a 32 bit operating system, same as always.

They made sp1 do that to stop people whining about where their RAM went after installing 4gig.

farooqm · 15 Feb 2008 at 23:50

justinwilkin said:
All sp1 does is let you know how much is installed. Not how much windows is registering. It will still register about 3.2-3.5 gb of ram if it's a 32 bit operating system, same as always.

They made sp1 do that to stop people whining about where their RAM went after installing 4gig.

Typical MS coverup...

farooqm said:
Dell M1530 (T7500) & Vostro 1500 (T7300) do these benefit from PC-6400 (800Mhz) memory? or is it better to got for PC2-5300 (667Mhz) memory?

Looking to get 2x2Gb to take system up to 4Gb. (I know with 32-bit I'll only see between 3.25-3.5Gb)...

All info welcome before I make my mind up..

Anyone got any guidance info on this one? Need to order memory quite soonish..

Fothsn · 16 Feb 2008 at 12:52

farooqm said:
Typical MS coverup...

Anyone got any guidance info on this one? Need to order memory quite soonish..

Just stops average Joe getting confused as to why his computer has 3.2 GB of ram not 4 GB he bought, makes sense. IMO you won’t see much of a difference bar memory benchmarks, if you can get it at a good price maybe

Bradmax57 · 16 Feb 2008 at 13:11

my lenovo with 4gb pc6400 ram runs at pc5300, its running at cas 4 mind, uses the same intel 965pm chipset as dells, but it could be a bios feature?

farooqm · 17 Feb 2008 at 19:04

Bradmax57 said:
my lenovo with 4gb pc6400 ram runs at pc5300, its running at cas 4 mind, uses the same intel 965pm chipset as dells, but it could be a bios feature?

Thanks, so I reckon the 965pm chipset only support upto pc5300 speed. Anyone got any info on pc2-6400 mem in the vostro 1500 or m1530?

lay-z-boy · 18 Feb 2008 at 00:52

Don't waste your money on pc6400, it isn't supported and will revert back to pc5300.

800mhz ram will be supported when the platform gets a revision and moves over to ddr3.

Fothsn · 18 Feb 2008 at 12:33

Ah I didn’t realise 965M only runs at PC5300, just checked mine and its running at PC5300

I would have thought the 965M chipset was just about the same as desktop variants guess not.

Bradmax57 · 18 Feb 2008 at 12:36

fothsn said:
Ah I didn’t realise 965M only runs at PC5300, just checked mine and its running at PC5300 I would have thought the 965 chipset was just about the same as desktop variants guess not.

just checked mine running at 4-5-5-13 cant remember what pc5300 ran at but think it was 5-5-5-xx

Fothsn · 18 Feb 2008 at 12:43

Yea mines running at 331.3MHz - 3:5 - 5-5-5-15

farooqm · 18 Feb 2008 at 14:40

Cheers, managed to pick up some branded PC2-6400 (800Mhz)for £26.50 delivered which is about the same price or less than I'd have paid for PC2-5300 (667Mhz),

If anything I reckon I'll benefit from the slightly tighter CL4 rating of this memory at 667Mhz speeds.

Thanks All.