I know it should be. Other than the windows 7 disc being faulty, but it seemed to load on the dell. The mem freq is set to corsair 1600Mhz, voltage at 1.65V, timings are all set to the 9-9-9-24-2T, set to boot from disk, shouldn't really matter what SATA ports but I have SATA 0 DVD, SATA 1 HD...