Does anyone have a ZV6000 Review? - Page 2

You can get it SUPER cheap here:
http://www.techexcess.net/ProductInf...oductid=XB2000

If you dont want the KB/Mouse you can get t for like $125

yeah I know, I still think that is too much though.

I might nix the dock and get the 4000+ processor, though I have heard conflicting reports about these supporting dual channel memory. I know there are issues right now with the machine being able to run at dual channel, but if there is even a possibility that HP will come out with a new BIOS that makes dual channel work, I would like the processor to support it. I thought the 939 pin config on the 4000 meant it has an onboard mem controller for dual channel (among other things . . .)?

i am hopeful for a BIOS upgrade....especially if thats all HP has to do to get out of a class action lawsuit.

Say What? I have one of the systems at work... whats going on with them?

Hey Teckng,
I just wanted to comment on what you had posted. This is my understanding of the situation at hand with the zv6000. There is actually nothing really "wrong" with the machine. Some users are not very happy with HP for "cripling" this machine. The AMD Athlon 64 processor (at least the ones in the zv6000) have a built in memory controller (hence the 939 pin config) which allows it to use dual channel memory accessing for greater performance on the memory side of things.

Some users have noted that the machine IS infact dual channel capable, but is only using a single channel. In order to take advantage of dual channel memory, the two RAM modules must be identical. Users have tried this and still, the machine uses single channel. Many have contacted HP, and HP seems to be messing up bigtime. Many, many different answers have come from HP, all pretty weak.

My assesment of why the machine does not support dual channel memory is because of the graphics card, and its ability to share system RAM. If shared memory is turned on, one of the RAM sticks is used for this, not both, hence the two identical sticks of ram are no longer identical. A new more sofisticated version of the BIOS might fix this, but thus far, there has been no word from HP about this solution.

There is a forum specifically dedicated to this machine: zv6000 forums

well that would be simple....extra graphics memory used...no dual, graphics memory only, full dual channel. It isn't that complicated. I really dont want the extra graphics memory anyways.

I totally agree

Ok i see... I hadnt had much time to read up on the system & didnt because it seamed to be working fine... Chances are HP wont put out a fix until upto 6 months after massive amounts of peopel complain, but then they may not anyways... The machine i have at work thats under me doesnt need the extra graphics memory either... I never thought about it...

However I'm sure HP engineers have a good reason for doing that, However it may be something like, "It saved us a ot of work" or something