M4700 Owners Thread

I had already checked out the SODIMMs you suggested. But I'm buying from Europe, and they look so damn expensive either ordering them from the US or buying them here. I ended up ordering this: Vengeance® from a local reseller.

One last question: overall I've found the Kingston HyperX to be 40 to 50 euros more expensive than the Corsair Vengeance I ordered. Do you think the improvement from CL10 to CL9 is worth the extra price? In that case, I could consider changing my order

 

I have my m4700 (tn, the same as you mentioned) next to Dell u2412m (eIPS). Although I'm not a graphics pro, I would say that m4700 looks not much worse. The screen is definitely not bad, with very good DPI.

Anyway would suggest to use it with good desktop monitor whenever possible.

 

For quad core CPU I would suggest ordering 4x4GB - will be significantly cheaper, compared to 2x8GB.

 

You're right DimaV83, I just check and it is indeed cheaper. 2x(2x4gb) Kingston HyperX CL9 sets cost slightly less than the Vengeance set I linked in the previous post. However, the sets are made to work in dual channel. Wouldn't this affect the performance and eventually make the purchase not worth it?

 

I went with 2x8GB, but only because i plan to get another set soon to bring my RAM up to 32GB, i'm already running out of RAM at 16GB for some stuff i'm doing. If you don't think you'll ever need more than 16GB, by all means go with 4x4. Do be aware that some users have reported problems with getting 1866MHz Vengeance RAM to work, the HyperX 1866MHz and 1600MHz vengeance work perfectly fine though.

Also, in general, you can assume that you'll get ripped off compared to US prices in Europe unfortunately.

In regards to dual channel or not, if the RAM has the same clock speed and timings, it makes absolutely no difference whether you buy them individually, by sets of 2x4 or 4x4. When they sell you a dual channel kit, the SODIMMs have been tested together, but the chances of getting incompatible SODIMMs is close to nothing even with mismatched sticks.

 

Today I have installed 16 gb of ram and all work perfect.
Is it better to remove the standard 4 gb of ram installed under the keyboard because maybe this could slow down the performances of my new ram, or I can leave it mounted?
Thanks

 

I tested many monitor configurations when using the M4700, AMD M4000, and the e-port replicator:

2 x DVI + 1 VGA = doesn't work
2 x DVI + HDMI = doesn't work
2 x DVI + built-in LCD = doesn't work
2 x DP + 1 VGA = OK
2 x DP + 1 VGA + built-in LCD = OK
2 x DP + 1 HDMI + (built-in LCD) = ???

So in conclusion, if you want to use more than 2 monitors, use display port cables (or a compatible DP->DVI adapter)

 

The rule for AMD cards is only two non-DisplayPort monitors can be used at once. (A monitor attached to an active DisplayPort->DVI or DisplayPort->HDMI adapter counts as a DisplayPort monitor.)

 

I guess you learn something new everyday. I just wish Dell announced this fact clearly on their website, I would have paid the extra bucks for the NVIDIA chip. On top of that, I'm seeing all kind of weird behaviors with the AMD drivers... I haven't bought ATI/AMD in over 10 years, I wanted to give them a chance to redeem themselves and they failed! At least gaming benchmarks are pretty good which is my 2nd use of the GPU (1st being basic monitor output).

 

You mean that at this moment you have 2x8+1x4? In this case by removing 1x4GB RAM module you will enable dual-chanel mode -> will get some increase in performance. So I would suggest to remove it if 16GB is enough for you. (e.g. for me it is more than enough, but don't know your tasks)