Bought a fancy new Dell and it sucks

contra said:
Yeah $1000 is insane. DELL doesn't make the RAM anyway, they're all made by only a few manufacturers, Hynix, Samsung, maybe a few others. You would just need 1x 32GB DDR5-4800 RDIMM. Dell uses part number AC239378.

Maybe just roll with the 1x32gb if it's good enough, but if you can score another stick for $114, that's a pretty good price.
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i bought a 32gb dimm on amazon for $99. They say its compatible. I have bad luck on these things.

So a side note on ram. One of the reason Apple has been such a successful company is that they exert enormous pricing power in the Nand memory market. In 2010 they were the largest buyer of Nand memory in the world; I doubt this has changed.
 
nbbo said:
Just an idea....if you haven't found your problem yet. I was looking at your performance post from the first page. In the disk section, it says that disk 0 (your main) is a hard disk drive and not an ssd like your disk 1 (I have 2 disks as well and they both say ssd). If disk 0 is your main and windows and the rest of your apps are loaded on that, it is gonna feel like it is taking forever to access your apps on your machine. Also if your windows paging file is on there, that is also gonna feel like everything is taking forever for you to do something. You need to make the ssd your main hard drive and the other one the backup if you wish to keep your current configuration. You might be better off changing out the hdd with another ssd so you have quickness with both drives. Dell support probably can help you with that by either guiding you on getting all the programs on disk 0 and moving them to the ssd or by having you send the whole unit back. Hope it helps!
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I was thinking the same thing. I'm glad you asked him about this because it is the most obvious question from what he showed on the first page and will definately affect speed if all is not on SSD.
 
nbbo said:
Just an idea....if you haven't found your problem yet. I was looking at your performance post from the first page. In the disk section, it says that disk 0 (your main) is a hard disk drive and not an ssd like your disk 1 (I have 2 disks as well and they both say ssd). If disk 0 is your main and windows and the rest of your apps are loaded on that, it is gonna feel like it is taking forever to access your apps on your machine. Also if your windows paging file is on there, that is also gonna feel like everything is taking forever for you to do something. You need to make the ssd your main hard drive and the other one the backup if you wish to keep your current configuration. You might be better off changing out the hdd with another ssd so you have quickness with both drives. Dell support probably can help you with that by either guiding you on getting all the programs on disk 0 and moving them to the ssd or by having you send the whole unit back. Hope it helps!
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Its weird. Disk 0 is the sata spindle drive. But the computer is booting from disk 1.

so far it looks like the power management was the problem.
 
destriero said:
Disk 1 is the SSD? How large is the SSD?
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Nvme ssd disk1 is 1tb
Nvme ssd disk2 is 2tb
Disk0 is a spindle drive 500mb (I had to buy this as part of the configuration).

computer boots on disk1
All apps are on disk1
All data on disk2
Disk0 is a waste of space (I might set up some backup for my trading Db on that disk)
 
If you haven’t already, consider buying a driver utility (sadly) and have it update all of your drivers for you. Windows updater is fine but doesn’t do as well for individual components.

going through the thread to see what else you posted brb
 
longandshort said:
If you haven’t already, consider buying a driver utility (sadly) and have it update all of your drivers for you. Windows updater is fine but doesn’t do as well for individual components.

going through the thread to see what else you posted brb
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What do you recommend?
 
This is my home PC:
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+ 2tb ssd
+ NVDA RTX A2000 6gb (4 monitors)

My pc is a custom Dell precision (at home -- at work I built it myself) Precision 3460 Small Form Factor | Dell USA

I'd recommend @newwurldmn get something along those lines...the current PC he has is not really designed for professional use. It looks more like a server lol.
 
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