Someone explain this...

[Slaughter]

Is it just me or does it seem that all manufacturers are selling laptops with ram slower than the FSB? Does this make that much of a difference on the Core 2 Duo? And does anyting sell one with matching ram and fsb speeds?

 

[alimoalem]

i've seen some with 667MHz ram (don't remember which ones). don't mix PC5300 and DDR2-533 up with each other...PC5300 is ddr2-667.

you won't see a huge impact in performance but it would be nice to have it at 667 (newegg is a good option)

 

[jonesthewine]

my xps m1210 came with 667 MHz RAM as the default option.

 

[Rockinacoustic]

Originally posted by: alimoalem
you won't see a huge impact in performance but it would be nice to have it at 667 (newegg is a good option)

So would this be more of a noticeable performance increase or mere bragging rights? I'd rather not spend $70 and up just so my laptop config looks nice on paper.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: Rockinacoustic

Originally posted by: alimoalem
you won't see a huge impact in performance but it would be nice to have it at 667 (newegg is a good option)

So would this be more of a noticeable performance increase or mere bragging rights? I'd rather not spend $70 and up just so my laptop config looks nice on paper.

You will not notice a big difference.

 

[alimoalem]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak

Originally posted by: Rockinacoustic

Originally posted by: alimoalem
you won't see a huge impact in performance but it would be nice to have it at 667 (newegg is a good option)

So would this be more of a noticeable performance increase or mere bragging rights? I'd rather not spend $70 and up just so my laptop config looks nice on paper.

You will not notice a big difference.

yea, basically "bragging rights"