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"Tough notebook, some flaws" on by parkhoon
Pros: Tough trimetal chasis, smart battery
Cons: bad memory performance, no dual channel support
Summary: I've been using this for about two months now. I ordered two 512 MB DDR2 533 MHz memory from crucial tech, thought it would run as Dual channel mode, but it didn't. Wonder why they built it like this. With internal graphics, the bandwidth of systems memory gets more important. I wish this supported dual channel mode. Also to add, it doesn't even run on 533 MHz mode for the memory. It only runs on 400 MHz mode. The bus speed is 533 MHz, but the Bus to Memory speed ratio is reduced, it runs as 400 MHz speed which sucks. I talked with Dell tech support for not supporting dual channel mode, and then they put up a note that D410 doesn't support dual channel mode. I regret buying this for those memory issues, and wouln't recommend this system. I would recommend D610 instead.
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I am sorry for providing you guys with wrong info about the 400 MHz memory speed. I found out today that it does oprate at 533 MHz, with real clock of 266 MHz. The problem was that the CPU-Z v1.28 program was not reading the values correctly. CPU-Z v1.30 reads the memory frequency correctly.
- 2 replies to this review
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Your comments are correct in regards to the dual channel. Yet, partially incorrect on the memory bus speed. At 512MB RAM or below, the bus is 400MHz. At 1GB RAM or above, the bus is 533MHz.
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When asked Dell regarding memory acess at reduced speed (400MHZ), here is the reply:<br>"The Bus speed and the Ram speed doesn't interconnect.<br>So eventually the RAM would run @ 533 in the memory itself. Regardless what speed the Motherboard is."<br><br>Hence, "The 1 GB 533 Mhz would be significantly faster" than 400 Mhz.<br><br>Still don't understand how it can be "significantly faster" when CPU can only access at 400Mhz!?
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