March 21st, 2005, 11:30 PM
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am I the only one who see's this statement as -way- wrong? the FRONT SIDE BUS has zippo to do with what type of ram you have, thats what the friggen processor is running at.
| Well, Captain Caps, I assumed that Dell ran the memory and front side bus at a 1:1 ratio, as is common. Plus, I assumed that this was an early Pentium like the desktop P4 A revisions, which use PC-100 RAM and use a 400mhz FSB (which is exactly what this computer reported).
And additionally, Sir Shout, this turned out to be the case. The RAM was running at 100mhz. Here's the CPU-Z screenshot:
Note the wicked timings I'm getting on my underclocked RAM. 2-2-2-5. Nice. 
Unfortunately, I want the clock speed more than I want low latency.
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first off....just go to www.crucial.com and use their ram configurator (or whatever they call it)...that will tell you exactly what the ram is...also of course the dell site will tell you exactly what ram is on that comp
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Crucial says DDR2100.
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you probably have one of the "variable" speed cpus where they do underclock when the battery is low or under certain other conditions
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Aha! Nice one! I just loaded up Prime 95 and watched the computer change its clock speed! However, it changed the multiplier from 12 to 17 to get a 1.7ghz clock speed.
So it looks like the 100mhz RAM and FSB speeds were intentional and not "underclocks". Very strange. Dell may have some of the slowest DDR RAM in existence on this computer.
Kudos Rabidaardvark! Thank you very much, good sir, you figured it out.
In conclusion, it seems like DDR 266 RAM is the RAM I want to buy (like I had guessed earlier), despite the misleading RAM and FSB clocks the laptop uses.
Last edited by byunews : March 21st, 2005 at 11:44 PM.
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