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***Please rate, comment and subscribe. Thank you*** This is part three of a three-part deep dive video series on the Dell Studio Hybrid, a desktop PC running Windows Vista Home Premium SP1. Configured with an Intel Core 2 Duo T2390 (1.86 Ghz) CPU, 3 GB of DDR2 RAM, a 250 GB 5400 RPM hard drive, an 8x slot-loading DVD burner, and an Intel X3100 GPU. The colour is “Ruby”, and cost me 4 Canadian with taxes direct from Dell.ca. My unboxing and first impressions video is here: tinyurl.com Part one of the deep dive is found here: tinyurl.com Part two of the deep dive is found here: tinyurl.com Check out Digital Home Thoughts for more news and reviews – and join our community! www.digitalhomethoughts.com Distributed by Tubemogul.
If you still had it i would tell you to put windows 7 on it it takes up less ram witch would make it run smother mabey
Thank for the review
Hi I bought a studio hyrid for $299 a few weeks ago and had 5 or 6 beep codes and returned it. The second one worked ok. (are they out returns as new, I know dell has done it before) I had a dell wifi card I bought on ebay, swapped the ram with 4 gb from an old laptop and installed a 320 gb hdd.3 screws to take apart was easy to upgrade and is a nice little desktop. A few months ago I bought a Zino HD 400 w/ 4330 graphics for $349. It is a way better computer but I like both.
im sorry i know you said it is not a gaming comuter but i want to know if it will play oblivion
Crtl-Shft-Esc opens up the Task Manager without leaving what you’re doing.
slight note there, technically, if it is dual channel than it is 1066 for each stick, but the thing is, since they are rated for 533, that actually means that even WITH the dual channel, its still only 533, so a single channel is running at 266.5… and ram is accessed like a serial connection, only one stick is accessible at a time, so even though there are two sticks, it doesn’t exactly run at 1066 either because both sticks are not being accessed simultaneously.
Yes, I got it connected – but the first unit Dell sent me would give me a BSOD and crash every time it tried to boot from HDMI. The second unit Dell sent me worked OK in that regard if memory serves…but that was almost a year ago. It had a bunch of wonky DVD playback issues. Dell really butchered the software install on the Hybrids a year ago; I assume it’s all smoothed out now.
- Jason
Did you ever get the Hybrid connected to your 50″ plasma? If so were there any display related problems?
Thanks
haha, sorry, i posted too fast…
thanx a lot for the answer though, and great vids, i m gonna keep checking it out!
Unfortunate.
–buy it did seem very impressive.
You did a great job covering the Hybrid.
Watched the unboxing, and
the three parts.
Very detailed. I’ll subscribe.
Nope. If it did, I would have shown in that in the unboxing video.
- Jason
did it come with an hdmi cable to connect to a HDTV?
Indeed. And that’s why I returned it – it was a great unit otherwise.
- Jason
Whoa. The built in Intel graphics accelerator on this machine is really poor seeing how it lags with the windows media software.
Note taken.
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Oh I see, It’s 2x 2048mb running at 533MHz each. So together they will run at 1066MHz? Is that how it should be calculated?
Yes, when you double 533, you get 1066, which is the max bandwidth of your RAM. I’d urge you to check out the Wikipedia entry on RAM to understand more about RAM clock speeds if you really want to know more.
– Jason
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I just checked that. It says 399MHz on DRAM frequency. And 533MHz on “Max bandwidth”
Dont know if some of those has anything to do with the RAM clock speed?
You can’t change the RAM clock speed on a laptop, so I wouldn’t worry about it – it is what it is. But CPUz should report RAM speeds on the Memory tab. Double the number you see and it should be the speed your RAM is running at.
- Jason
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My bad
I downloaded the program and it worked fine, thanks.
But im wondering something, so I thought I would ask you since you have a great deal of experience of computers and electronic stuff.
I bought an Acer 7738G ( a laptop ) with 4GB of DDR3 RAM. And in the spec it says they should run at 1066 MHz. But where can I find the clock speed for the RAM in the CPU-Z program?
Thank you once again.
Oh, that’s CPUz. It doesn’t show CPU use, but it does show a lot of other neat info.
- Jason
@ThoughtsMedia
No, not that one. I meant the program you showed in the beginging of the video. Core speed and stuff like that.
That’s the Windows Task Manager. Press CONTROL+ALT+DELETE then select START TASK MANAGER.
- Jason
What is the name of that program you used to check CPU use etc? Thanks in advance
You mean for Flash games and the link? Should be just fine. Or do you mean for World of Warcraft, etc.? Should be OK, though you’ll have to drop your resolution down.
- Jason
There aren’t many that are this size – at least, not from major manufacturers. Acer has some similarly small units, though I think they’re based on the Atom CPU, so it won’t have as much grunt.
- Jason