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post #1 of 18
6/11/05 at 9:51am
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Hello guys,
I have a question regarding the transcend 1 gig and the memory shipped with my dell i9300. I ordered the i9300 with 512 ram ( 2X 256mb) and is it ok if I stick a gig of transcend ram and leave 1 stick of the original memory? Total memory will be 1.25 gigs. Im upgraded cause I lag in many games such as CS:S, HL2, and farcry and GPU is geforce 6800.
Thanks for responding.
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post #2 of 18
6/11/05 at 10:09am
Well, I haven't tried this myself but from what I've read it should work just fine. If you do a search you should find other threads with more info.
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post #3 of 18
6/11/05 at 10:32am
I currently am running the setup you are asking about. I run your big brother the XPSGen2 but they are basically the same in this area. I dont play CS:S but I do play WoW, UT2k4, and Battlefield Vietnam. All run great with the Transcend 1024 and the Dell 265 in the other slot. The comp even detects them as dual channel which surprised me.

No issues here
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post #4 of 18
6/11/05 at 10:38am
This has nothing to add to the conversation honestly but it is a minor correction...your buy 1.024 + .256 = 1.28 Gigs of RAM in your computer...sorry something that always bugs me!
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post #5 of 18
6/11/05 at 10:47am
Yeah I agree its not a final solution its just to tie me over till I can get another gig stick
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post #6 of 18
6/11/05 at 11:01am

not to be controversial...

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This has nothing to add to the conversation honestly but it is a minor correction...your buy 1.024 + .256 = 1.28 Gigs of RAM in your computer...sorry something that always bugs me!
but wouldn't it still be 1.25 since a gig isn't exactly 1000, it's 1024? therefore simple math would have it that 1,280/1024 is 1.25 of a gig. I'm a noob and just wanted to straiten out my own thoughts. This is totally irrelevant to the topic...sorry.
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post #7 of 18
6/11/05 at 11:09am
It's 1.25GB of power of 2 GB, and 1.28 power of 10 GB.

In the computer world, we use power of 2 gigabytes, sometimes appreviated as GiB which looks and sounds idiotic. Gigibytes or something.

To the original poster: I only got 256MB in my machine originally, but I'm doing exactly what you say you are, and my 9300 works like a dream. I got the 1GB of Transcend from newegg.
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post #8 of 18
6/11/05 at 11:55am
wait, now Im confused....now why wouldnt 1.024 + .256 = 1.28??? I dont understand why it wouldnt be that....
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post #9 of 18
6/11/05 at 1:42pm
See you carry the two and multiply by the....jk

Please stop confusing MB and GB....
1024 MB+256 MB= 1.25% of 1 GB and basically 1.25 GB
1024 MB+256 MB= 1280 MB which tecnically would be 1.28 GB in the metric system but these are computers hehe and 1 GB=1024 MB
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post #10 of 18
6/11/05 at 2:33pm
I prefer to have 1397 MBs of Ram, that is the magic number for me!
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post #11 of 18
6/11/05 at 3:14pm
Hi,

I have the exact set up ( 256 + 1 Gig ) I bought the 1 gig of on Ebay.

The Transcend 1 gig + The Dell 256 mb in my Dell 9300 with the 6800 go

No problems at all.

When I played Doom 3 on my machine with 512 mb it would lag, now with the 1.25 gig - no lag!!

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post #12 of 18
6/11/05 at 3:22pm
If you define one gigabyte as 1024 MB of memory:

(256 MB + 1024MB) = 1280MB * (1 GB / 1024 MB) = 1.25GB.

Get it?


Anyway, it's 1280MB of memory, and 1.25GB. Memory for computers is always defined in powers of two, not ten.

1 KB (kilo) for PC = 2^10 = 1024
1 MB (mega) for PC = 2^20 = 1024 * 1024
1 GB (giga) for PC = 2^30 = 1024 * 1024 * 1024

In sciences:
1 Kx (kilo) = 10^3 = 1000
1 Mx (mega) = 10^3 = 1000 * 1000
1 Gx (giga) = 10^9 = 1000 * 1000 * 1000
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post #13 of 18
6/11/05 at 3:31pm
screw math

I have a final in 2 days.

-jcll2002
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post #14 of 18
6/11/05 at 3:42pm
hey if you upgrade the ram on ur own will the warranty go bad??
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post #15 of 18
6/11/05 at 3:43pm
No
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post #16 of 18
6/11/05 at 3:43pm
Im not sure, but I think that its only the memory section of the warranty. Someone confirm. Again, dont quote me on that though.
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post #17 of 18
6/11/05 at 5:02pm
No upgrading your memory does not affect your warranty.
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post #18 of 18
6/11/05 at 7:27pm
What about HDD? DVD burner? CPU?
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