Recent content by Schopenhauerian

:)... Indeed, I had been tempted to write, "Recently bought a Dell Studio XPS 9100, featuring a Dell-manufactured Motherboard... and even more unfortunately...", but I restrained myself. :) Of course, in Dell's defense, this is not the PC to buy if you want to customize (as lsv points out)...

Greetings All, Recently bought a Dell Studio XPS 9100, featuing a Dell-manufactured Motherboard (Model: 05DN3X version A00, Intel X58 Chipset, i7 930<-->980X, HD5670<-->HD5970) and unfortunately: exactly one PCIe x16 slot. There is an open x8 slot, however, and I've been told that any...

Greetings RebateMonger, Thanks very much for the feedback! The link you posted and the information about the JEDEC standard is all very good stuff to know. 1. You note: "Since HP says that DDR 400 is acceptable, then there shouldn't be a voltage problem." True, though in that long post, I...

Greetings jjmIII / tweakboy, Thanks for reading through the long post, and for the feedback! Very much appreciated. The worst case scenario you cite, jjmIII, doesn't sound bad at all, I can definitely live with that. My understanding is that the clock speed (after removing 1 x PC2700/2.5V...

Question About RAM Compatibility in an HP D220 Micro Tower -Model: HP D220 Micro Tower (Business Desktop Line from 2002/2003) -Specs: http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11709_na/11709_na.HTML -Motherboard: Intel 845GV chipset -CPU: Not sure, either (1) 2.4GHz Celeron with 400MHz...