Will this work?

Athlonman · Apr 22, 2002

A friend of mine has Dell Dimension 8100 and he wants to upgrade his ram from 128 to 256. is it possible to mix pc600 with pc 800. I am pretty sure it will just make the pc 800 run slower what do you guys think?

thanks Athlonman

RnPgrosz · Apr 22, 2002

I wouldn't even touch it. The chances are you will end up messing something up, with those dells they make it hell to upgrade. I tried to upgrade my friends dell p4 system by putting in another 128 mb rdram and ended up frying the onboard network card and the cat5 cable it was connected to. Don't ask me how it happened.

But try it if you want, I guess it wouldn't hurt

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Athlonman · Apr 22, 2002

rnpgrosz said:
I wouldn't even touch it. The chances are you will end up messing something up, with those dells they make it hell to upgrade. I tried to upgrade my friends dell p4 system by putting in another 128 mb rdram and ended up frying the onboard network card and the cat5 cable it was connected to. Don't ask me how it happened. But try it if you want, I guess it wouldn't hurt .

really i didn't know dells where like that. maybe dell has ram made special just for there comps?

RnPgrosz · Apr 22, 2002

Well techincally I think replacing the ram would work, but be very careful because it is very easy to mess things up when upgrading a dell. Don't replace power supply or mobo though. Good Luck.

Athlonman · Apr 22, 2002

rnpgrosz said:
Well techincally I think replacing the ram would work, but be very careful because it is very easy to mess things up when upgrading a dell. Don't replace power supply or mobo though. Good Luck.

ohh yeah I have seen those power supplyes there crazy.

Thermal · Apr 23, 2002

Athlonman said:
A friend of mine has Dell Dimension 8100 and he wants to upgrade his ram from 128 to 256. is it possible to mix pc600 with pc 800. I am pretty sure it will just make the pc 800 run slower what do you guys think?

thanks Athlonman

No....not w/ any system spec do we mix memory grade.

Wedo · Apr 23, 2002

We have three Dell's here at work and the only way I found to upgrade them in term's of RAM was to go to Price Watch and buy either two sticks of matching Dell compliant memory or one large one.

I would also uninstall all of the Dell software if possible. All of their system monitoring s l o w s things down.

Wedo

Athlonman · Apr 23, 2002

Re: Re: Will this work?

Thermal said:
No....not w/ any system spec do we mix memory grade.

I don't understand, what do you mean?

Thermal · Apr 23, 2002

Re: Re: Re: Will this work?

Athlonman said:
I don't understand, what do you mean?

You cannot mix pc600 with pc 800.....it can cause some serious conflicts in your system.

RnPgrosz · Apr 23, 2002

Re: Re: Re: Re: Will this work?

Thermal said:
You cannot mix pc600 with pc 800.....it can cause some serious conflicts in your system.

Not to mention its a Dell.

Greg M · Apr 23, 2002

That's an i850 chipset. The RIMMS have to be in pairs and must be same speed. If he didn't want to spend a bunch of dough with a memory upgrade, the helpful folks at Dell should have explained the P4/RAMBUS debacle...I mean architecture to him. After all, it's easy as Dell...I mean hell.

Dell makes a good business system (PIII GX150). They aren't the best in the performance department, but they are definitely reliable. Eventually going to the P4 architecture, when it really isn't necessary, sure is going to suck, IMNSHO.

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