4GB Dell xps M1530 Laptop

[Converse Reality]

Well i a scub Multi-Boxing 4 lvl 8 shamans atm, and i have to admit its fun as all hell.

But point being im running on these specs and getting a nice bit of lag. And im only at the second zone, Mulgore. 9FPS fluxuations and 180 ish MS on all 4 boxes running at 800,600 resi lowest color - graphics i can get to. I checked the dell website to see if i can upgrade to 8GB of ram but it wont tell me. Anyone got suggestions/Sulotions? P.S. i already went into my computer settings and took off all of the lil extra features that vista does E.I. see threw windows and junk, it looks like the original windows now.<classic FTW :thumbup: >


Windows Vista Home Premium

Intel(R) Core(TM)s Duo CPU T8300 @ 2.4GHz 2.4GHz

4.00GB Ram

32-bit OS

[Greythan]

What type of graphics card is on your machine?

I'm running a laptop with a slower CPU and same RAM and five boxing very well. I'm also running a GeForce 9800M GTS with 1 gig of dedicated memory and Vista 64 bit.

[Herc130]

Well, you only have two physical so-dimm slots. If you are going to 8GB (assuming the mobo will recognize.....I don't know), you will have to buy 2x4GB sticks. Just checked, that's around $250 per stick....on the cheap. So $500+ to go from 4GB to 8GB

Looked at Dell xps M1530 at DELL and they can be customized to 8GB of ram for an extra $450. Not a bad deal.

HOWEVER

They have two choices:

Cutomize up to 4GB

and

Customize up to 8GB

Which probably means it's two different mobos, one that does up to 4gb and one that goes to 8gb. Strangely, either version is the same price, which one you picked, I don't know. And what model number has which mobo, I don't know. So unless someone else figures it out, get your model number and call DELL, because yes there are versions of this laptop that will support up to 8GB of ram and there are versions that will not, but even if you have the one that can, it's still going to be about $500 to upgrade at this time, unless this laptop runs desktop ram, in which case it's around $100 per stick.

[Converse Reality]

i have a

Nvidia GeForce 8600m GT card atm

[Converse Reality]

thanks herc

I tryed to look it up on there website and kept getting all of these BS error messages saying data not found <?/> idk.

But thanks for the info ill call dell sometime today and get a answer out of a rep as to what my options are and ill let ya know. Thanks for the help. ^^

[Starbuck_Jones]

http://support.dell.com/support/edoc....htm#wp1102222

[align=left]Memory [/align] Memory module connector
two user-accessible SODIMM connectors
Memory module capacities
512 MB, 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB
Memory type
667 MHz SODIMM DDR2
Minimum memory
1 GB
Maximum memory
8 GB


System originally only allowed 4g max ram. Prolly came out before 4gig dimms were available, if you do upgrade, hit the website and update to the latest bios, I checked them all and did not see anything specific for increased memory support, but that's the first thing tech support will have you do.

There are 2 different motherboards for this system, but its not for system ram slots but for the video options offered.