RAM upgrade recommendations for my Dell Inspiron Small Desktop
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It's funny; I saw him on Sat. at a St. Patrick's Day parade but he didn't ask me about the RAM status. He had been drinking a lot, so I'm assuming it wasn't on his mind at that moment. :harhar:
RAM upgrade recommendations for my Dell Inspiron Small Desktop
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If he's not interested in the performance bump from an SSD, pretty sure he won't notice 8gb more RAM.. Give him an IOU and get it in a year or two :)
RAM upgrade recommendations for my Dell Inspiron Small Desktop
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Assuming that you don't reach ~80%+ of the RAM on a consistent basis, an SSD would be the about the biggest bang for your buck from a performance standpoint, especially with them being dirt cheap...
RAM upgrade recommendations for my Dell Inspiron Small Desktop
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I appreciate the input, AP and duke. Yeah memory prices did spike quite a bit the past few years. My gaming computer that I bought about 4-5 years ago, I outfitted it with 16 GB of RAM and thought...
RAM upgrade recommendations for my Dell Inspiron Small Desktop
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What he said, and not just to the OP but in general (sorry to keep picking on OP here). I think there are a lot of computer users who came of age in the 80s and 90s who remember literally not having...
RAM upgrade recommendations for my Dell Inspiron Small Desktop
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I understand completely, and appreciate that you're a person that makes it a priority to keep your word to your friend. I just see people all the time fall into the marketing hype (or just following...
RAM upgrade recommendations for my Dell Inspiron Small Desktop
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Thanks for your input. I'll wait until April and then get it then. When I bought this PC (and my friend did his) last Nov., I made a deal with him that I'd give him my stick of RAM and buy my own...
RAM upgrade recommendations for my Dell Inspiron Small Desktop
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I completely understand wanting to "future proof" yourself. However, along the lines of what others have already said... "why"? If you're maxing (or even using 80-90%+) of your RAM on a consistent...
RAM upgrade recommendations for my Dell Inspiron Small Desktop
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Hey folks, I'm just kicking this back up because I want to make sure that this RAM is compatible with my computer. As a reminder, I have this Dell Inspiron Small Desktop:...
RAM upgrade recommendations for my Dell Inspiron Small Desktop
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Thanks, looks like getting a cheap kit should suffice.
RAM upgrade recommendations for my Dell Inspiron Small Desktop
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Check out these benchmarks for an idea: https://www.anandtech.com/show/8959/ddr4-haswell-e-scaling-review-2133-to-3200-with-gskill-corsair-adata-and-crucial/4
I will stand by my original post; If...
RAM upgrade recommendations for my Dell Inspiron Small Desktop
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Hey everyone, thanks for the replies. I'll fill in some of the details that you asked. I technically bought 2 computers from Dell during the holidays. I sold one to a friend and told him that in...
RAM upgrade recommendations for my Dell Inspiron Small Desktop
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I would look at getting a SSD unless you were having issues.
Try this to check your memory usage
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RAM upgrade recommendations for my Dell Inspiron Small Desktop
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Do you need more memory for htcp
https://mediaexperience.com/first-htpc-tips/
RAM upgrade recommendations for my Dell Inspiron Small Desktop
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I agree, I would be interested in what OP is experiencing to make them thing it needs more ram.
RAM upgrade recommendations for my Dell Inspiron Small Desktop
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Good news -- there is zero reason to throw out perfectly good RAM to go from DDR4-2666 to DDR4-3000. None. If you had an AMD system and were gaming then... maybe... but for an HTPC I wouldn't waste a...
RAM upgrade recommendations for my Dell Inspiron Small Desktop
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Hey guys, a few months ago, I bought this computer to replace my old HTPC:
https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-desktop-computers/inspiron-small-desktop/spd/inspiron-3470-desktop/fdcwGMSFC315s
It...
