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AW USA vs UK

post #1 of 13
5/30/04 at 2:37pm
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As I currently live in Holland and intend to order a 51m to my house here (or perhaps in the UK) I have to do so through the alienware.co.uk site.

What I was wondering is if anyone knows why there are discrepencies in hardware options between configuring a 51m on the US site and one on the UK site, particularly in reference to the memory. I dont think id go for the 2GB option as it sounds a tad over the top, but how come its not available in the UK?

-Stu
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post #2 of 13
5/30/04 at 2:44pm
Well, actually, the 2 gig option isn't as good as it sounds. the 2 gb ram option is 2x 1gb PC-2700 sticks. It's probably better to get the 1 gb option of 2x 512 mb PC-3200. 2 reasons. 1) pc3200 is faster and 2) as you add more ram, it slows things down (or so i've been told).
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post #3 of 13
5/30/04 at 2:49pm
Unless you need tons of RAM the 1GB will be good for your needs. Unless you use maya and photoshop at the same time or something...
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post #4 of 13
5/30/04 at 3:54pm
I too have been checking up on buying Alienware, and have to buy from the UK because I live in Belgium. From what I have seen, when Alienware US releases a new component for one of their systems it takes at least a couple of weeks (sometimes as long as 2 months) before an equivalent part is released on their UK site. The 2 gig RAM stick has not been out on Alienware US that long, so it should be their sometime in the near future.
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post #5 of 13
5/30/04 at 5:43pm
yeah you can get by alot of things with just 512, but I liket o be safe so i got the 1024
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post #6 of 13
5/30/04 at 9:50pm
yeah, that's what i did. but more than a gig isn't needed or good.
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post #7 of 13
5/30/04 at 9:54pm
depends... they do sell Gb in 3200... just not from AW
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post #8 of 13
5/30/04 at 10:15pm
yeah, but still, i've heard that more than a gig (acutually 512) slows your system down a bit.
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post #9 of 13
5/30/04 at 10:19pm
http://www.lostcircuits.com/memory/2gb/

The guys in that article set out to dispell the myth of too much ram is bad. This is what I found to be most important.:

In the end, the take home message is that on a correctly configured high quality i875 / i865-based mainboard, there is no performance hit per se associated with increase in memory density or filling up all memory ranks. The situation may be different with OEM boards depending on whoever got their hands on the BIOS to FUBAR it for the sake of OEM stability and maybe the memory itself also plays a role in this scenario for the reasons outlined on the second page of this review but memory density and performance do not mutually exclude each other.

So if AW knows what they are doing, then the added ram wont result in performance loss.
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post #10 of 13
5/30/04 at 10:28pm
hurray!! I can tell my uber-ego'd friends to go f*ck off now!! yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!
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post #11 of 13
5/30/04 at 10:47pm
yeah... granted the increase in performance will eventually become too small to readily measure, I have never heard of having too much RAM being a problem.
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post #12 of 13
5/30/04 at 10:50pm
My friends claimed that it slowed the system down (But let you keep lots of things open at once). I thought it was bull, but didn't want to argue since I really didn't know.
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post #13 of 13
5/30/04 at 11:58pm
i found that on the 16.1 screen, the UK charges +141 pounds (equates to USD 260)whereas the US charges +577 USD!!
Why the huge price difference i wonder?
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