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4GB of RAM on an Inspiron 6000. Any use?

post #1 of 3
2/26/07 at 10:25pm
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Hey all,

I downloaded Sisoft's Sandra Lite XIb a couple of days ago, and it says that the maximum installable memory on my Inspiron 6000 is 4GB. I've read reports that Windows XP recognizes up to 3GB, and may entertain installing Vista in a moment of character weakness. With that in mind, I'm wondering if doing it is even remotely worth the price of admission.

I posted this same question to the Dell support boards and was met with "2 gigs only." Maybe there's something you guys know that they don't?

My thanks in advance.

Also, the BIOS revision is the latest, A09, if I remember correctly.
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post #2 of 3
2/27/07 at 8:34am
Why would you need 4gigs? Especially in the i6000, given the specs on the rest of the machine you are really not gonna see any significant performance gain over 2gigs (which is more than enough for most anyways).

Stu
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post #3 of 3
2/28/07 at 5:34pm
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Originally Posted by PassingThrough
Hey all,

I downloaded Sisoft's Sandra Lite XIb a couple of days ago, and it says that the maximum installable memory on my Inspiron 6000 is 4GB. I've read reports that Windows XP recognizes up to 3GB, and may entertain installing Vista in a moment of character weakness. With that in mind, I'm wondering if doing it is even remotely worth the price of admission.

I posted this same question to the Dell support boards and was met with "2 gigs only." Maybe there's something you guys know that they don't?

My thanks in advance.

Also, the BIOS revision is the latest, A09, if I remember correctly.

To my understand, I thought the XPS lines are the only lines that are capable of supporting 4GB of ram. I highly doubt you can install more than 2GB on i6000. Even if you could, you be paying arms & legs for 2 sticks of 2GB DDR2 Ram. They are way too expensive for the performance gain you might achieve. You also need a 64 bit OS to even run with 4GB of Ram. I'm running 2GB of DDR2667 on M1210 with Vista and its running perfect! I barely use the pagefiles. just my .02cent
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