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April 11th, 2005 03:00
That... processor ... holder... thingy...
So... after being linked to the tech documents of my Dell, I found myself enthralled for about an hour reading up on all things 8300. Once the hour had passed, I decided I needed something shiny and/or normal mapped, so I played Half-Life 2 for a while.
Anyways, I managed to absorb that my computer can support up to a 3.4 GHz processor, so... just to check, I opened a new browser window and went to
www.newegg.com and sought the fabled 3.4 GHz processor. There it was.... $279. Easily worth an extra $400 MHz. Muwahahahaaa!!!
Then I saw the red bold font of death. Available on mainboards only with Socket "T."
I hope that's what socket my lil' guy has... but... if not.... I'll just mosey on over to TigerDirect.
I had
www.newegg.com already open in one window, and I was looking at RAM. Boy they love their RAM. Sure do, those new eggs. Anyways, I couldn't help but notice the whole dual-channel bit. I know what dual channel is, but I don't know if I need a special connector for it, or if I need dual channel compatible DIMM's or whatever.
Do I need compatible DIMM's for dual-channel? If so, does the 8300 have such DIMM's?
Much thanks.
Once again, A_Pickle signing off.
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jankerson
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April 11th, 2005 04:00
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April 11th, 2005 09:00
jankerson
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April 11th, 2005 10:00
It didn't say anything in the manual about that (Dual Channel), but it did say buy Memory in Pairs.
Interesting that it said fill banks 1/2 or 3/4, not 1/3 and 2/4.
I know the 875 Chipset supports Dual Channel DDR though, I figured that Dell might have disabled this feature sense they didn't mention it in the Service manual.
Message Edited by jankerson on 04-11-2005 07:04 AM