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  #11  
Old January 28th 21, 11:24 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_3_]
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Default RAN 1.35v vs 1.5v

On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 19:03:49, micky wrote
(my responses usually follow points raised):
[]
First answer is: As far as I know, the voltage of the board in the bios
shows the max voltage that can be drawn by the hardware, so if the RAM
only draws 1.35, that's all it should use. I'm not 100% though so this
is purely a comment, not an answer.


You don't "draw" voltage, you draw current. Voltage is supplied.

That's for sure, it's not an answer, because his first sentence shows he
doesn't know how electricity works. bg


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  #12  
Old January 28th 21, 04:20 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
micky
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Default RAN 1.35v vs 1.5v

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 27 Jan 2021 22:01:38 -0500, "David W.
Hodgins" wrote:

On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 20:34:59 -0500, micky wrote:
In alt.comp.hardware, on Tue, 26 Jan 2021 18:39:53 -0500, "David W.
Hodgins" wrote:
https://www.memory4less.com/hp-8gb-ddr3-pc12800-bu37aa shows it's available
at $68.40 each.


This is it, but it's not exactly the same as the Samsung that's in there
now. Which is more important? :-(


Well, you know that what's in there works. The above should work based on the
specs, and I'd be surprised if it didn't. Your choice though. :-)


My choice? I don't know. I left it up to you guys, pretty much, and
your answer is pretty convincing.

LOL, yes it's my choice and I'm happy with your answer, and the others.
Thanks. I ordered the matching dimms.

Regards, Dave Hodgins


  #13  
Old January 28th 21, 04:47 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
micky
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Default RAN 1.35v vs 1.5v

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Thu, 28 Jan 2021 01:33:08 -0500, Paul
wrote:

micky wrote:
In alt.comp.hardware, on Tue, 26 Jan 2021 19:22:59 -0500, Paul
wrote:

micky wrote:
I wanted to get more RAM for my newly-acquired PC
Entering the make and model, HP EliteDesk 800 G1 Small Form Factor
Crucial suggests only CT2K102464BD160B
DDR3 PC3-12800 • CL=11 • Unbuffered • NON-ECC • DDR3-1600 • 1.35V •
1024Meg x 64 • $76 even cheaper at NewEgg,
Kingston suggests only KCP316ND8/8
Specs: DDR3, 1600MHz, Non-ECC, CL11, X8, 1.5V, Unbuffered, DIMM,
240-pin, 2R, 4Gbit $98
The items are in different order but the main difference seems to me to
be 1.35v vs 1.5v.
That seems important, right? How can they be different for the same
computer? (I'm not really concerned about price unless they could sell
it cheaper by making it at the wrong, lower voltage. )
Do I need to look up what the computer puts out? Would one of these be
overclocked if the computer puts out 1.5v and the other underclocked if
the computer puts out 1.35?
I already have 2 sticks, Do I want to get the same voltage that they
use, whatever that is?
------
Other differences are
Crucial says PC3-12800 but Kingston doesn't include that.
Kingston says X8, 2R, 4Gbit but Crucial doesn't include any of that.
Does any of that matter?
------
FTR, I only looked at Newegg because Crucial was out of stock. NewEgg
says "Ships from China. Newegg Most customers receive within 10-32
days."
Hmm. At
https://www.newegg.com/crucial-16gb-...82E16820156047
it says sold and shipped by Ram-Store and when you click on 12 New from
$88.46 , it goes to the bottom of the page where they have 12 vendors
selling the same thing. Just like Amazon does it. I only looked at the
first 5 but one is in Hong Kong and "Most customers receive within 4-17
days.". One is in the US and "Most customers receive within 7-9 days",
all except Hong Kong for the same price!! (For Hong Kong and the next 7
the price gets higher.)
But this doesn't matter until I understand the voltage question.
1.35V DIMMs run in a 1.5V motherboard.

There should be a FAQ with the details around somewhere.

https://superuser.com/questions/5641...y-or-overclock


First answer is: As far as I know, the voltage of the board in the bios
shows the max voltage that can be drawn by the hardware, so if the RAM
only draws 1.35, that's all it should use. I'm not 100% though so this
is purely a comment, not an answer.


If your machine uses SODIMMs, I must have selected the wrong
item from the Crucial list.


No, it doesn't us SODIMMs. The two smaller versions of the same name do,
but the my SFF and the tower version use dimms.

If you have part numbers on the existing modules and you're
happy with them, then that's likely just as good of a
choice as anything else. If you got "fancy" products with
low CAS, they wouldn't help, because the slowest memory
in the machine determine the speed choice made by the BIOS.


Okay, so there's no point in looking for lower CAS. Someone suggested
buying 4 8's but I don't want to spend extra money. (The first machine
I bought, the one that didnt' work and was the wrong model too, had all
4 slots filled with 4's, and I thought that might be the standard in
refurbishing, but this one has 2 8's .)

But if supplies were limited (like the Crucial being out of
stock), I was looking around to see what could be fitted
from the existing pool of product.

I'm really surprised you can find branded Samsung DIMMs/SODIMMs.
Samsung sells product more to businesses than to end users.


If I'd known that, I might not have looked! Several places that
google found were out of stock, but as is not uncommon, Amazon had it,
although its sold and shipped by Dataram, a company that's 54 years old
and made ram themselves, and I think they still do. And it's even in
New Jersey so maybe I'll get it a day or two earlier since I'm in
Baltimore. (though it says 14 days. That's okay.)

So I got the Samsung from them via Amazon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataram although the info on this page
stops at about 2011.
http://memory.dataram.com/ Their webpage is in English, French, German,
and Japanese!

The SPD table shows what the DIMM expects in terms of voltage.
The SPD chip receives power right away, and the BIOS reads the SPD.
The BIOS "turns on" the VDIMM regulator, only when it has
determined what the strategy is. So RAM is "commissioned"


This is all very clever.

by the BIOS POST process - and some of the BIOS code
runs without RAM for storage, and variables are stored
in CPU internal registers.

If the BIOS is unhappy with what it reads in the SPD table,
it will "beep". And occasionally a poster will post a question
about a BIOS that is beeping, when it should not. And in some
cases, it tries to match fields in the SPD that are
"don't cares". That means poorly prepared SPD table
contents, can result in surprises for users. One DIMM even
had the wrong SPD chip soldered to it :-) Clever.


LOL Thanks.

Paul


  #14  
Old January 29th 21, 01:54 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
T[_6_]
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Default RAN 1.35v vs 1.5v

On 1/27/21 4:06 PM, micky wrote:
In alt.comp.hardware, on Tue, 26 Jan 2021 16:03:52 -0800, T
wrote:

On 1/26/21 1:56 PM, micky wrote:
I wanted to get more RAM for my newly-acquired PC

Entering the make and model, HP EliteDesk 800 G1 Small Form Factor

Crucial suggests only CT2K102464BD160B

DDR3 PC3-12800 • CL=11 • Unbuffered • NON-ECC • DDR3-1600 • 1.35V •
1024Meg x 64 • $76 even cheaper at NewEgg,


Kingston suggests only KCP316ND8/8

Specs: DDR3, 1600MHz, Non-ECC, CL11, X8, 1.5V, Unbuffered, DIMM,
240-pin, 2R, 4Gbit $98


The items are in different order but the main difference seems to me to
be 1.35v vs 1.5v.

That seems important, right? How can they be different for the same
computer? (I'm not really concerned about price unless they could sell
it cheaper by making it at the wrong, lower voltage. )

Do I need to look up what the computer puts out? Would one of these be
overclocked if the computer puts out 1.5v and the other underclocked if
the computer puts out 1.35?

I already have 2 sticks, Do I want to get the same voltage that they
use, whatever that is?


------

Other differences are
Crucial says PC3-12800 but Kingston doesn't include that.

Kingston says X8, 2R, 4Gbit but Crucial doesn't include any of that.

Does any of that matter?


------

FTR, I only looked at Newegg because Crucial was out of stock. NewEgg
says "Ships from China. Newegg Most customers receive within 10-32
days."

Hmm. At
https://www.newegg.com/crucial-16gb-...82E16820156047
it says sold and shipped by Ram-Store and when you click on 12 New from
$88.46 , it goes to the bottom of the page where they have 12 vendors
selling the same thing. Just like Amazon does it. I only looked at the
first 5 but one is in Hong Kong and "Most customers receive within 4-17
days.". One is in the US and "Most customers receive within 7-9 days",
all except Hong Kong for the same price!! (For Hong Kong and the next 7
the price gets higher.)

But this doesn't matter until I understand the voltage question.


Hi Micky,

Call Kingston tech support and describe the issue to them:

877-546-4786
714-435-2600

Kingston's customer service is something to behold.
Because of it. I only sell their memory, unless they
don't carry what I need. They really, really back
their stuff up.

-T


Thanks. I almost did this but then saw that I had Samsung in there now.
So unless someone tells me I shouldn't, matching the dimms that are
there now is the right thing to do?

SAMSUNG M378B1G73DB0-CK0


My experience is that you should match them

  #15  
Old January 29th 21, 10:35 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_28_]
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Default RAN 1.35v vs 1.5v

T wrote:
On 1/27/21 4:06 PM, micky wrote:
In alt.comp.hardware, on Tue, 26 Jan 2021 16:03:52 -0800, T
wrote:

On 1/26/21 1:56 PM, micky wrote:
I wanted to get more RAM for my newly-acquired PC

Entering the make and model, HP EliteDesk 800 G1 Small Form Factor

Crucial suggests only CT2K102464BD160B

DDR3 PC3-12800 • CL=11 • Unbuffered • NON-ECC • DDR3-1600 • 1.35V •
1024Meg x 64 • $76 even cheaper at NewEgg,


Kingston suggests only KCP316ND8/8

Specs: DDR3, 1600MHz, Non-ECC, CL11, X8, 1.5V, Unbuffered, DIMM,
240-pin, 2R, 4Gbit $98


The items are in different order but the main difference seems to me to
be 1.35v vs 1.5v.

That seems important, right? How can they be different for the same
computer? (I'm not really concerned about price unless they could
sell
it cheaper by making it at the wrong, lower voltage. )

Do I need to look up what the computer puts out? Would one of
these be
overclocked if the computer puts out 1.5v and the other underclocked if
the computer puts out 1.35?

I already have 2 sticks, Do I want to get the same voltage that they
use, whatever that is?


------

Other differences are
Crucial says PC3-12800 but Kingston doesn't include that.

Kingston says X8, 2R, 4Gbit but Crucial doesn't include any of
that.

Does any of that matter?


------

FTR, I only looked at Newegg because Crucial was out of stock. NewEgg
says "Ships from China. Newegg Most customers receive within 10-32
days."

Hmm. At
https://www.newegg.com/crucial-16gb-...82E16820156047

it says sold and shipped by Ram-Store and when you click on 12 New from
$88.46 , it goes to the bottom of the page where they have 12 vendors
selling the same thing. Just like Amazon does it. I only looked at the
first 5 but one is in Hong Kong and "Most customers receive within 4-17
days.". One is in the US and "Most customers receive within 7-9 days",
all except Hong Kong for the same price!! (For Hong Kong and the next 7
the price gets higher.)

But this doesn't matter until I understand the voltage question.


Hi Micky,

Call Kingston tech support and describe the issue to them:

877-546-4786
714-435-2600

Kingston's customer service is something to behold.
Because of it. I only sell their memory, unless they
don't carry what I need. They really, really back
their stuff up.

-T


Thanks. I almost did this but then saw that I had Samsung in there now.
So unless someone tells me I shouldn't, matching the dimms that are
there now is the right thing to do?

SAMSUNG M378B1G73DB0-CK0


My experience is that you should match them


You know there are more nuances than that.

If Dell sells a 6GB machine, you know right away
it shipped with a 4GB and a 2GB module, and it
left the factory in an unmatched state. The machines
are obviously flexible to some degree, as these non-power-of-two
machines are quite common at retail.

I try not to send people on excessively constrained
missions, if I can help it. FLEX memory capability
has probably been around now for ten years, and lots
of machines can accept, say, 512MB,1GB,2GB,4GB
in the four slots and still work. Is it "optimal" ?
Of course not. But for the average user seeking
an easy upgrade with garbage in the desk drawer,
it'll work. And the Intel caching structure makes
any reduction in memory speed, almost invisible
to these choices. (older AMD, less so)

It's better for the user, if they have a "retail"
motherboard in a home-built machine, as those have
extensive controls (even if I don't know what to
do with all the settings!). It's the Dell and HP
machines, you have to use your intuition as to
what aspects of memory choices will antagonize
the BIOS, or not.

"Strict matching" is a good rule for say, S939.

Paul
  #16  
Old January 29th 21, 06:43 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
micky
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Default RAN 1.35v vs 1.5v

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Thu, 28 Jan 2021 10:47:51 -0500, micky
wrote:

If I'd known that, I might not have looked! Several places that
google found were out of stock, but as is not uncommon, Amazon had it,
although its sold and shipped by Dataram, a company that's 54 years old
and made ram themselves, and I think they still do. And it's even in
New Jersey so maybe I'll get it a day or two earlier since I'm in
Baltimore. (though it says 14 days. That's okay.)


Things usually come when Amazon says they will or 1-3 days earlier, but
this time the webpage said 11-14 days. But...

Bought it late Wednesday night,
shipped on Thursday from Princeton, New Jersey, USPS
Via Philadephia, in Baltimore today, Friday, since 8AM,
Probably get it tomorrow.
2 days instead of 11-14.
I'm glad I didnt' pay extra for faster shipping.


  #17  
Old January 29th 21, 06:47 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_28_]
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Default RAN 1.35v vs 1.5v

micky wrote:
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Thu, 28 Jan 2021 10:47:51 -0500, micky
wrote:

If I'd known that, I might not have looked! Several places that
google found were out of stock, but as is not uncommon, Amazon had it,
although its sold and shipped by Dataram, a company that's 54 years old
and made ram themselves, and I think they still do. And it's even in
New Jersey so maybe I'll get it a day or two earlier since I'm in
Baltimore. (though it says 14 days. That's okay.)


Things usually come when Amazon says they will or 1-3 days earlier, but
this time the webpage said 11-14 days. But...

Bought it late Wednesday night,
shipped on Thursday from Princeton, New Jersey, USPS
Via Philadephia, in Baltimore today, Friday, since 8AM,
Probably get it tomorrow.
2 days instead of 11-14.
I'm glad I didnt' pay extra for faster shipping.


And I thought they were overloaded with stuff to ship ?

Paul

  #18  
Old January 29th 21, 07:00 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
micky
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Default RAN 1.35v vs 1.5v

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Fri, 29 Jan 2021 04:35:05 -0500, Paul
wrote:

T wrote:
On 1/27/21 4:06 PM, micky wrote:
In alt.comp.hardware, on Tue, 26 Jan 2021 16:03:52 -0800, T
wrote:

On 1/26/21 1:56 PM, micky wrote:
I wanted to get more RAM for my newly-acquired PC

Entering the make and model, HP EliteDesk 800 G1 Small Form Factor

Crucial suggests only CT2K102464BD160B

DDR3 PC3-12800 • CL=11 • Unbuffered • NON-ECC • DDR3-1600 • 1.35V •
1024Meg x 64 • $76 even cheaper at NewEgg,


Kingston suggests only KCP316ND8/8

Specs: DDR3, 1600MHz, Non-ECC, CL11, X8, 1.5V, Unbuffered, DIMM,
240-pin, 2R, 4Gbit $98


The items are in different order but the main difference seems to me to
be 1.35v vs 1.5v.

That seems important, right? How can they be different for the same
computer? (I'm not really concerned about price unless they could
sell
it cheaper by making it at the wrong, lower voltage. )

Do I need to look up what the computer puts out? Would one of
these be
overclocked if the computer puts out 1.5v and the other underclocked if
the computer puts out 1.35?

I already have 2 sticks, Do I want to get the same voltage that they
use, whatever that is?


------

Other differences are
Crucial says PC3-12800 but Kingston doesn't include that.

Kingston says X8, 2R, 4Gbit but Crucial doesn't include any of
that.

Does any of that matter?


------

FTR, I only looked at Newegg because Crucial was out of stock. NewEgg
says "Ships from China. Newegg Most customers receive within 10-32
days."

Hmm. At
https://www.newegg.com/crucial-16gb-...82E16820156047

it says sold and shipped by Ram-Store and when you click on 12 New from
$88.46 , it goes to the bottom of the page where they have 12 vendors
selling the same thing. Just like Amazon does it. I only looked at the
first 5 but one is in Hong Kong and "Most customers receive within 4-17
days.". One is in the US and "Most customers receive within 7-9 days",
all except Hong Kong for the same price!! (For Hong Kong and the next 7
the price gets higher.)

But this doesn't matter until I understand the voltage question.


Hi Micky,

Call Kingston tech support and describe the issue to them:

877-546-4786
714-435-2600

Kingston's customer service is something to behold.
Because of it. I only sell their memory, unless they
don't carry what I need. They really, really back
their stuff up.

-T

Thanks. I almost did this but then saw that I had Samsung in there now.
So unless someone tells me I shouldn't, matching the dimms that are
there now is the right thing to do?

SAMSUNG M378B1G73DB0-CK0


My experience is that you should match them


Good. That settles it.

You know there are more nuances than that.


Well, I thought it did.

If Dell sells a 6GB machine, you know right away
it shipped with a 4GB and a 2GB module, and it
left the factory in an unmatched state. The machines
are obviously flexible to some degree, as these non-power-of-two
machines are quite common at retail.

I try not to send people on excessively constrained
missions, if I can help it. FLEX memory capability
has probably been around now for ten years, and lots
of machines can accept, say, 512MB,1GB,2GB,4GB
in the four slots and still work. Is it "optimal" ?
Of course not. But for the average user seeking
an easy upgrade with garbage in the desk drawer,
it'll work. And the Intel caching structure makes
any reduction in memory speed, almost invisible
to these choices. (older AMD, less so)

It's better for the user, if they have a "retail"
motherboard in a home-built machine, as those have
extensive controls (even if I don't know what to
do with all the settings!). It's the Dell and HP
machines, you have to use your intuition as to
what aspects of memory choices will antagonize
the BIOS, or not.


Nuances beyond my ken, but I can tell you didn't say no.

"Strict matching" is a good rule for say, S939.


Aha, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_939

Very interesting.



Paul


  #19  
Old January 29th 21, 07:57 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
micky
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Default RAN 1.35v vs 1.5v

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Fri, 29 Jan 2021 12:47:24 -0500, Paul
wrote:

micky wrote:
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Thu, 28 Jan 2021 10:47:51 -0500, micky
wrote:

If I'd known that, I might not have looked! Several places that
google found were out of stock, but as is not uncommon, Amazon had it,
although its sold and shipped by Dataram, a company that's 54 years old
and made ram themselves, and I think they still do. And it's even in
New Jersey so maybe I'll get it a day or two earlier since I'm in
Baltimore. (though it says 14 days. That's okay.)


Things usually come when Amazon says they will or 1-3 days earlier, but
this time the webpage said 11-14 days. But...

Bought it late Wednesday night,
shipped on Thursday from Princeton, New Jersey, USPS
Via Philadephia, in Baltimore today, Friday, since 8AM,
Probably get it tomorrow.
2 days instead of 11-14.
I'm glad I didnt' pay extra for faster shipping.


And I thought they were overloaded with stuff to ship ?

Paul


I don't know anything for a fact about that, but I think I get less mail
than I used to, and my front door is 30-40 feet from the path the
mailman would take if he didn't go to my house, times 2 to return.

And I think they've stopped delivering my mail until several pieces
build up.

Worse than that I get a weekly newspaper in the mail and it came either
on Friday or Saturday for years, Now they come out of order and always
late, a week I got two on the same day, and yesterday I got an issue
from December, and that's not unusually late.

Plus I never got my emission inspections letter. The email about it
came in December, and to get excused because I dont' drive more than
5000 miles a year and I'm over 70, I have to file a form. But the email
didn't include the form. The letter would have. It did 2 years ago.
And the web didn't have a copy either.

So I wrote them a letter explaining all this in the top 1/4 of the page
and the rest I copied the format of a different form, with changes to be
the form I needed, asking for them to accept that or send me the form.

I sent that quite a while ago and haven't heard back, and last time
after I sent the form I heard back in less than 2 weeks. The virus
might have a lot to do with this last thing.
  #20  
Old January 29th 21, 08:30 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Rene Lamontagne
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Default RAN 1.35v vs 1.5v

On 2021-01-29 11:47 a.m., Paul wrote:
micky wrote:
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Thu, 28 Jan 2021 10:47:51 -0500, micky
wrote:

If I'd known that, I might not have looked!Â*Â*Â* Several places that
google found were out of stock, but as is not uncommon, Amazon had it,
although its sold and shipped by Dataram, a company that's 54 years old
and made ram themselves, and I think they still do.Â*Â* And it's even in
New Jersey so maybe I'll get it a day or two earlier since I'm in
Baltimore. (though it says 14 days.Â* That's okay.)


Things usually come when Amazon says they will or 1-3 days earlier, but
this time the webpage said 11-14 days.Â* But...

Bought it late Wednesday night, shipped on Thursday from Princeton,
New Jersey, USPS
Via Philadephia, in Baltimore today, Friday, since 8AM, Probably get
it tomorrow. 2 days instead of 11-14. I'm glad I didnt' pay extra for
faster shipping.


And I thought they were overloaded with stuff to ship ?

Â*Â* Paul


Apparently they are, but they say they are hiring another 100,000 People
in the US and Canada, this was in December 2020.
I ordered a new sound bar for my Sons TV last week and got it 2 days later.

Rene

 




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