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Myth about ram in a Latitude D600 and so on...

post #1 of 9
2/24/06 at 4:55pm
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Somewhere in a thread I've read about this myth (hint) with ram-upgrade for a D600 and so on, it should be better with DDR2700 modules instead of DDR2100...Rubbish, bullsh@t No way!
I've tried with DDR2700, and?! Nothing!!! Bios still says XXXMB@266MHz not @333Mz...The only thing is, according to Everest tool - ram timings, 2-3-3-6 2ns instead of 2,5-3-3-6 2,5ns And system still runs with 133/266MHz

Anyway...
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post #2 of 9
2/25/06 at 1:58am
Not sure of the D600, but the newer 600m's had a different revision of the 855 chipset that ran the ram at 166/333MHz. If you had an older mobo it won't miraculously clock the ram higher with PC2700.
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post #3 of 9
2/25/06 at 9:20am
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!?$§%&#

The problem is - I've got the old board revision with A3
The newer revision A07/A08... should support 133/166 ram timings.

Well on monday I'll order a new mb for my lappy, I hope DELL send me a new one - not this "refurbished" sh@t !
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post #4 of 9
2/26/06 at 8:15pm
Having 2T latency is much better than having 2.5T. Try with memtest86 and see it for yourself.
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post #5 of 9
2/27/06 at 12:54pm
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...otherwise - havin' the 333Mhz memory speed is quite better ( especially with dual channel ram ) even with the 2,5T
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post #6 of 9
2/28/06 at 7:47am
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No way...

...no way, I'm gonna lose my hope that there is a board with B1 chipset revision for D600 I've checked five boards built from 03' till the end of 05' - from revision A00 till A08 - nothing, all of them are A3
IS THERE SOMEONE WITH A D600 RUNS @ 333MHz PLS ?!
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post #7 of 9
2/28/06 at 12:31pm
I'll give it to you straight: Yes there are newer boards running at 333mhz. But these new revisions don't have built in mic, a smart card underneath the pc card slot and no gigabit controller (only a 10/100). If you request a motherboard change from dell, they'll give you the older revision board because that's the one you have.
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post #8 of 9
2/28/06 at 1:02pm
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That the way DELL goes, right's Yours Mich43L - even if I order 10x times a new board to replace, they send me my damned revision

The only possibility is - if I get a board from 600m, or a really damaged new D600, §$%&#!!! Bought unnecessary pc2700 sticks...Anyway
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post #9 of 9
3/11/06 at 4:55pm
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...well - at the end of this story I've put one pc400/pc3200 CL2.5 stick in,
most of them support 333MHz and 266MHz, the RAM timings RAS/CAS/etc. 2/2/2/6 instead of 2/3/3/7 anyway with a hitachi HTE721060G9AT00 (7200rpm) hdd my lappy got a kick of performance !
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