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    RAM on the stock M14x, what brand?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by mittens14x, Jul 16, 2011.

  1. mittens14x

    mittens14x Notebook Consultant

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    well i bought 8gb of ram with the M14x, i am just too afraid of opening the back to check what brand of ram they have provided me. What brand is it? And what brand harddrive do they come with?
     
    mittens14x, Jul 16, 2011
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  2. niko2021

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    I think it's a wack hyundai brand lol. And the hard drive to my knowledge is either a western digital caviar black or a seagate momentus, mine came with a wd cav black. If you bought ram, i would've recommend the kingston hyper x, but any 1600mhz would do. Unless you got a deal on the m14x, the usual upgrade for ram is way more than what newegg charges for ram. 150 about on the dell site, 100 on the newegg site for the hyper x.
     
    niko2021, Jul 16, 2011
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    i got 2 dimms of hynix for my stock ram. which yes, used to be called hyundai electronics. also, i believe my harddrive was a samsung, before i took it out.
     
    eats7, Jul 16, 2011
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  4. Gromblelord

    Gromblelord Newbie

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    My ram was Hynix as well but my 500gb HDD was a seagate momentus which is now in a USB 3 caddy.



    Alienware M14x -i7 2820QM / Nvidia GeForce GT555M 1.5GB / 8GB Kinston hyper X XMP RAM / 900P Screen / Intel® Centrino® Advanced-N 6205 / Bluetooth 3.0 / OCZ Vertex 2E 120 GB / Windows 7 Pro
     
    Gromblelord, Jul 16, 2011
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  5. Kynlore

    Kynlore Notebook Geek

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    The hard drive was a Seagate. I didn't notice what the RAM was but Dell uses the Hynix in most of their systems.
     
    Kynlore, Jul 16, 2011
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  6. CGSDR

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    Mine is one from Hynix (4GB) and Hyundai (2GB).
     
    CGSDR, Jul 16, 2011
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    Ditto 10 char
     
    clienterror, Jul 17, 2011
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  8. CGSDR

    CGSDR Alien Master Race

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    Ditto 10 char? What do you mean?
     
    CGSDR, Jul 18, 2011
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  9. clienterror

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    I had 6 gigs from them with 2 different brands ;)
     
    clienterror, Jul 18, 2011
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  10. CGSDR

    CGSDR Alien Master Race

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    I understand that you mean you're having the same thing like mine, but what is 10 char?

    EDIT: Nevermind, just found and is reading the NBR Dictionary, :D

    Ref: NBR Dictionary
     
    CGSDR, Jul 18, 2011
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  11. clienterror

    clienterror Notebook Consultant

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    Ohhhhh when you post you need to have at least 10 characters to make a post and "Ditto" is only 5 characters so I needed 5 more. Basically if your post is less than 10 characters you just add "10 char" to the post so you get over 10 characters for a valid post. It's one of those forum things :p
     
    clienterror, Jul 18, 2011
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  12. Kynlore

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    Ok, I checked....mine are Hynix.
     
    Kynlore, Jul 18, 2011
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  13. c69k

    c69k Notebook Deity

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    I got Samsung
     
    c69k, Jul 19, 2011
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