Bought a fancy new Dell and it sucks

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by newwurldmn, Sep 6, 2023.

  1. newwurldmn

    newwurldmn

    i bought a 32gb dimm on amazon for $99. They say its compatible. I have bad luck on these things.

    So a side note on ram. One of the reason Apple has been such a successful company is that they exert enormous pricing power in the Nand memory market. In 2010 they were the largest buyer of Nand memory in the world; I doubt this has changed.
     
    #71     Sep 7, 2023
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  2. mervyn

    mervyn

    How many monitors do you plan to plug in?
     
    #72     Sep 7, 2023
  3. tomi01

    tomi01

    I was thinking the same thing. I'm glad you asked him about this because it is the most obvious question from what he showed on the first page and will definately affect speed if all is not on SSD.
     
    #73     Sep 9, 2023
  4. newwurldmn

    newwurldmn

    Its weird. Disk 0 is the sata spindle drive. But the computer is booting from disk 1.

    so far it looks like the power management was the problem.
     
    #74     Sep 9, 2023
  5. destriero

    destriero

    Disk 1 is the SSD? How large is the SSD?
     
    #75     Sep 9, 2023
  6. newwurldmn

    newwurldmn

    Nvme ssd disk1 is 1tb
    Nvme ssd disk2 is 2tb
    Disk0 is a spindle drive 500mb (I had to buy this as part of the configuration).

    computer boots on disk1
    All apps are on disk1
    All data on disk2
    Disk0 is a waste of space (I might set up some backup for my trading Db on that disk)
     
    #76     Sep 9, 2023
  7. If you haven’t already, consider buying a driver utility (sadly) and have it update all of your drivers for you. Windows updater is fine but doesn’t do as well for individual components.

    going through the thread to see what else you posted brb
     
    #77     Sep 10, 2023
  8. destriero

    destriero


    What do you recommend?
     
    #78     Sep 10, 2023
  9. This is my home PC:
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    + 2tb ssd
    + NVDA RTX A2000 6gb (4 monitors)

    My pc is a custom Dell precision (at home -- at work I built it myself) Precision 3460 Small Form Factor | Dell USA

    I'd recommend @newwurldmn get something along those lines...the current PC he has is not really designed for professional use. It looks more like a server lol.
     
    #80     Sep 10, 2023
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