(LoL) Yes, I am so wordy because I want it to be impossible to be misunderstood, but there you go I failed. Hey! I've been misquoted: there is no apostrophe in wits. L8R
Ya well I blame this program I wrote. It does a lot of grammar correction on the fly so when I pasted your original quote in, it saw the "its" part of "wits" and decided to correct it to "it's" ... cut me some slack I just developed that functionality today -- still working on trying to make it so that it doesnt cause me more trouble than it's worth.
Ya it does take a massive load off when posting and when I have to go in an "deal with StUpId CaPs or something similar like that hehe. Ok back to the topic, anyone know what the speed on those RIMMS are?
Is that the stock speed or was that modified because, to my knoweledge RIMMS shipped as either RD600 or RD800 and more lately RD1200 (unconfirmed?)
betazetaX, Sorry soooo late to the discussion. I too am fairly new to A/D (less than 2 months). Now have you solved your prob? Mine came with 512MB (2x256) and then added 1GB (2x512). Your board does support upto 1.5GB. You do have to install in pairs, which is why you got 2 256 modules. The ones in the other slots (RIMMS) are called continuity modules. These are needed when using RDRAM. Just remove them and put your 256's in its place, then reboot and check your system hardware it should read 1.5GB of ram. Also I tried a Dell 8300, 800MHz FSB.. upgraded to 2GB of ddr ram. It didn't come close to speed and performance of an 8250 with 512MB of RDRAM. Although RDRAM is so expensive.. it's worth it.
our FSB is 533MHz, They explain our speed of our RIMM's as pc1066(at least for our model) And don't let DELL fool you. I think they make great computers, but their tech support sucks!! And its a simple thing of language barrier. I will only talk to the call center in the US and not India. And nothing against India... It's just they don't communicate with us here in the US as well.
betazetaX, Heres some doc's to help explain upgrading your memory and the continuity modules. Click adding memory http://docs.us.dell.com/docs/systems/dim8250/replace.htm#1106497
Praetor, You were close RDRAM goes up to pc1200. And as far as speed Rambus RIMM modules operate at a maximum frequency of 400MHz and use clock doubling to allow for 800MHz performance. http://www.rdramrambusmemory.com/
I ran the pin # threw Samsung semi conductor site. Ours are 1066. I popped in 2 more 256 modules. Wow what a difference. I didn’t have the scratch($) to get the 2x512. Wow what a difference. Thanx for the info : )
most welcome Honestly I don't even know if going up to 1.5 was worth it. Thinking on switching to a HT processor.. see if that makes things faster.
