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October 1st, 2021 01:00
DELL Vostro 3470 Upgrading SSD and RAM
I have a DELL Vostro 3470 Desktop PC which was shipped with the following specifications:
i3-8100 Processor; 4GB RAM; 1 TB 7200 rpm HDD
The P.C has a M.2 SATA SSD Slot. I want to have SSD as my boot drive and keep the HDD for storage.
The DELL Manual says that it supports only 1 TB HDD + 128 GB M.2 SATA SSD Combination.
Could someone please comment on this that will I be having issues if I put a 256 GB M.2 SATA SSD along with my 1 TB HDD.
128 GB SSD doesn't seem practical to me and I do not want to remove my HDD as I will have quite some data to store.
Also, could someone please tell me the specifications of the RAM it supports. I couldn't find the details regarding latency in the manual. Does it support a CL-19 RAM?
redxps630
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October 1st, 2021 06:00
Re:
The DELL Manual says that it supports only 1 TB HDD + 128 GB M.2 SATA SSD Combination.
Could someone please comment on this that will I be having issues if I put a 256 GB M.2 SATA SSD along with my 1 TB HDD.
yes 256GB M.2 ssd is fine. Dell only sells lor validates their own ssd up to 128 GB but a 256 GB will certainly work.
DELL-Brad L
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October 6th, 2021 20:00
Yes, the system will work with CL-19 RAM. Here is a link from Crucial showing various configurations/types that work. I tried to find an example from Dell, but I only found CL-19 listed as working/compatible, unfortunately this doesn't mean the system will allow the memory to run at CL-19 but I think there will be a good chance that it should.
If you end up trying RAM at this spec, please let us know what the timings show.
Paulus The Woodgnome
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December 3rd, 2023 04:15
Iv'e been struggling to upgrade my ram also, I've tried various DDR4-3200 and it has always clocked at less than 2666Mhz according to BIOS and Task Manager-> Pefromance->Memory redings, sometimes 2133Mhz and sometimes 2400Mhz.
The only kit I've got working properly at 2666Mhz is Crucial 2x4GB CT4G4DFS8266.C8FE 4GB DDR4-2666 UDIMM 1.2V CL19
Can anyone advise/link me to the correct 16GB kit that will run at 2666Mhz?
BTW. You might like to know that the best performing SSD for this machine that I have found is PC401 NVMe SK hynix 256GB ity fits directly into the pcie x1 slot but because it's to high for the case I've used a riser cable and positioned it facing inwards to the back vent facing inwards with a blob of hotglue. Most SSD's score a max of 8.1 in the windows 7 performace index but this particular stick hits 8.35
You can still run the Windows 7 performance measure on window 10 by running the following batch file
winsat formal
powershell -command "& {&'Get-CimInstance' Win32_WinSat}";>results.txt
notepad results.txt
Paulus The Woodgnome
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December 3rd, 2023 04:21
Here are my results from the previously mentioned batch file.
CPUScore : 9.1
D3DScore : 9.9
DiskScore : 8.35
GraphicsScore : 8.1
MemoryScore : 9.1
TimeTaken : MostRecentAssessment
WinSATAssessmentState : 1
WinSPRLevel : 8.1
PSComputerName :
My upgrades are 8gb ram (also mentioned before)
Intel i5-9400
Gigabyte GT 1030 Low Profile.