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Dell Dimension XPS T450 - Upgrade advice sought.
A friend, who's not very computer literate, recently bought a second
hand Dell Dimension XPS T450 and wants me to upgrade his Graphics Card and RAM I'm not that familiar with Dell machines and would therefore be obliged if someone could advise me as to which components are compatible with this system. Am I OK in assuming that I can install 2 sticks of 256 Mb PC100 SDRAM and, say, a 64Mb DDR GeForce 4 MX 440 AGP Graphics Card without any compatibility issues? A quick root around Dell's support site informs me that the board will support a maximum of 768 MB RAM and has the following advice: The system can take either Non-ECC(KTD-XPSRN/xx) or ECC(KTD-XPSR/xx) memory. ECC and Non-ECC modules can be mixed but will not perform ECC function. To have ECC function, ALL modules MUST be ECC. Dell's recommended memory upgrade route is via kinston who'll charge around £75 per 256 MB stick of RAM. I can, however, get generic Non-ECC PC100 SDRAM locally for half that price. Would it be OK for me to install the generic stuff? Thanks in nadvance for any advice. Cheers. Mod. |
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Thanks Steven, for clarifying that for me. I just wanted to make sure
that it could be upgraded and i'm glad I asked now as I was completely unaware of the differences in SDRAM types / chip densities. Thanks too for the advice re crucial, it's much appreciated. Cheers. Mod. "steven67@" wrote in message ... Your motherboard uses an Intel 440BX chipset. It supports chip densities up to 128Mbits. Your motherboard will support 256MB DIMMs. But, you will need 256MB DIMMs that have sixteen 16Mx8(128Mbit) chips--eighteen chips if ECC. Most of the newer 256MB DIMMs will have eight 256Mbit chips, and won't work properly in your system. Some of the cheaper, generic 256MB DIMMs will have sixteen 32Mx4 chips, and also won't work properly. Look up your Dimension XPS T Series at Crucial. Crucial guarantees that the listed 256MB DIMMs will be compatible with your system. You will also find that Crucial's prices are better than Kingston's. Crucial: http://www.crucial.com |
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