Plenty of user experiances (from google) seem to suggest that the chipset will support it. Strangely, intel's website is still sticking to the 4GB limitation: http://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/datasheet/316273.pdf
Thanks - my intrepretation is that 8GB will work - but its pretty annoying that Dell is not making this a lot clearer. Up until a few months ago they were saying that 4GB was the max - then they start selling new machines with up to 8GB - but no announcement or clarification about the change in specs.
If you go to any of the major memory makers - they are still saying that the max is 4GB - which I now believe is incorrect and outdated.
Confusing indeed. I'm looking into an XPS M1730 with 4GB (it also uses the PM965 if I'm not mistaken). But I may be interested in upping it in the future for 64-bit O/S (Vista or beyond). I think the only question that remains on this issue is does the M1530's they're now selling with 8GB, are they using the same chipset? I'm wondering if they're using something else that allows 8GB? Sorry for bringing a month old topic up but this has me thinking. I'm not sure if I want to buy such an expensive machine if 4 is the highest I can go. By all accounts, everybody outside of Dell is saying that 4 is the max (according to Intel and memory makers). So in short, I'm still confused on this.
I would like to know if I can upgrade my memory to 4 gigs if I am running Vista 32 bit version. I currently have 3 gigs of memory.
You can indeed... but it's really not worth the expense for a 32bit OS, because 32bit OS' can't use the full 4GB.
They only utilise something in the order of 3.25GB, so upgrading from 3GB - 4GB for the sake of such a small increase, simply isn't worthwhile :emotion-5:
husky0894
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January 16th, 2009 17:00
They can all take 8G, subject to it being used with a 64-bit OS.
NemesisDB
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January 16th, 2009 18:00
Plenty of user experiances (from google) seem to suggest that the chipset will support it. Strangely, intel's website is still sticking to the 4GB limitation: http://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/datasheet/316273.pdf
prcopeland
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January 17th, 2009 07:00
Thanks - my intrepretation is that 8GB will work - but its pretty annoying that Dell is not making this a lot clearer. Up until a few months ago they were saying that 4GB was the max - then they start selling new machines with up to 8GB - but no announcement or clarification about the change in specs.
If you go to any of the major memory makers - they are still saying that the max is 4GB - which I now believe is incorrect and outdated.
http://www.ec.kingston.com/ecom/configurator_new/modelsinfo.asp?SysID=41298&mfr=Dell&model=XPS+M1530&root=us&LinkBack=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kingston.com&Sys=41298-Dell-XPS+M1530&distributor=0&submit1=Search
Dell should do a much better job communicating this kind of information to users and partners.
madrush
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February 13th, 2009 09:00
Confusing indeed. I'm looking into an XPS M1730 with 4GB (it also uses the PM965 if I'm not mistaken). But I may be interested in upping it in the future for 64-bit O/S (Vista or beyond). I think the only question that remains on this issue is does the M1530's they're now selling with 8GB, are they using the same chipset? I'm wondering if they're using something else that allows 8GB? Sorry for bringing a month old topic up but this has me thinking. I'm not sure if I want to buy such an expensive machine if 4 is the highest I can go. By all accounts, everybody outside of Dell is saying that 4 is the max (according to Intel and memory makers). So in short, I'm still confused on this.
dgkpcon
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February 13th, 2009 10:00
I think now dell has started supporting the Memory Re-Mapping feature on these systems to support the increased RAM.
Pochacco1986
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I would like to know if I can upgrade my memory to 4 gigs if I am running Vista 32 bit version. I currently have 3 gigs of memory.
TheRealFireblad
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November 19th, 2009 16:00
You can indeed... but it's really not worth the expense for a 32bit OS, because 32bit OS' can't use the full 4GB.
They only utilise something in the order of 3.25GB, so upgrading from 3GB - 4GB for the sake of such a small increase, simply isn't worthwhile :emotion-5: