cyjax Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Greetings,I am looking to upgrade the memory from 4gb to the maximum and for the life of me I cannot find any official documentation on the dell website that provides specs on the maximum the m14x R1 will support. I've caught a few posts on other sites suggesting 16gb PC1600 worked for them however I am skeptical. Has anyone successfully added 16gb, if so what brand did you use? The second thing I am planning to upgrade is the HDD to a SSD. -Cy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conakry Coggins Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 As far as I know the M14x R1 supports a maximum of 8GB at 1600MHz while R2 supports up to 16. I would also be interested to hear if anyone has gotten 16GB working in their R1. In terms of your upgrade, the SSD and 8GB will still give you a nice performance improvement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anh-Tuan Luu Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 As far as I know the M14x R1 supports a maximum of 8GB at 1600MHz while R2 supports up to 16. I would also be interested to hear if anyone has gotten 16GB working in their R1. In terms of your upgrade, the SSD and 8GB will still give you a nice performance improvement.That is not true, with the R1 you can run the ram UP to 16gbs same as R2. However the R1 is NOT SSD friendly as the R2 is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prinz Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Yep I stuck in 16GB of Kingston PnP months ago and it worked fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmbid Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 will definitely agree with R1 is not ssd friendly with the A08 bios version because of the sata speeds restricting to 2 and my seagate constantly BSOD's. i haven't tried the modded A08 version yet and am praying that this will be the cure to my blue screens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prinz Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Can't say I experienced any blue screens but to get the best from the machine I flashed back to A05. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v1monkie Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 According to Crucial, the maximum memory it can take is 8GB:Computer memory upgrades for Alienware M14x Laptop/Notebook from Crucial.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babajista Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 However the R1 is NOT SSD friendly as the R2 is You know that it was sold with SSD (as option though) Anyhow I can hardly think of a use for 16GB ram on R1, your processor or video card will limit you before you even start using more then 8 GB ram. though if someone have any proof that 16GB can boost M14x R1 performance, I will be the first to buy it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmaxx123 Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 will be running the modded a08 bios with my 840 pro to see if this changes anything from my previous a06 bios giving me sata2 speeds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unifying1337 Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 my m15x is running 16gb of ram but it is not regognize in bios but in windows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flav106 Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 According to Crucial, the maximum memory it can take is 8GB:Computer memory upgrades for Alienware M14x Laptop/Notebook from Crucial.comI agree, that's what the M14x's manual says. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NforceRaid Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 Greetings,I am looking to upgrade the memory from 4gb to the maximum and for the life of me I cannot find any official documentation on the dell website that provides specs on the maximum the m14x R1 will support. I've caught a few posts on other sites suggesting 16gb PC1600 worked for them however I am skeptical. Has anyone successfully added 16gb, if so what brand did you use? The second thing I am planning to upgrade is the HDD to a SSD. -Cy look here Link I have these KHX1600C9S3/8G 2x8gb Kingston HyperX 1600Mhz cl 9 and 0 problems ciao Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeus Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Interesting that people are able to get 16GB of RAM to be recognized in the R1. I upgraded to 8GB a while back and it was a nice improvement. I believed the manual when I read that 8GB was the maximum though, otherwise I would've tried for more! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdxxxg Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 I know alot of people that said 16gb works, but really 8 is as much as you need. The performance is bottle-necked by the gpu anyways. As for the HDD to SSD, highly recommend, just make sure your bios is either A05 or a modded A08 with the sata fix, since the regular a08 from dell/alienware limits the sata speed to sata 2. If you dont need your optical drive either, try getting a caddy to replace it with your old hdd and put the new ssd where the original hard drive was. This way you'll have your os and important apps on the ssd, and media on the hdd, since higher capacity ssds can be pretty pricey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElPr0 Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 i'm currently running two 8gb corsair vengence chips and windows detects the full 16 gb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudolph Irish Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 I've running 8GB at 1600MHz without any problems and from the documentation I received with my machine, that's the maximum speed/capacity it's rated for. I.e. that WILL (almost definitely) work, anything else might required some further fiddling... however looking at the responses above, a lot is possible here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
komosaei Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 Greetings,I am looking to upgrade the memory from 4gb to the maximum and for the life of me I cannot find any official documentation on the dell website that provides specs on the maximum the m14x R1 will support. I've caught a few posts on other sites suggesting 16gb PC1600 worked for them however I am skeptical. Has anyone successfully added 16gb, if so what brand did you use? The second thing I am planning to upgrade is the HDD to a SSD. -Cy4gb-8gb of RAM would be fine for now.. i recommend you to upgrade to newer alienware like m17x R3 (if you have budget ofcourse) .. you can monitor your RAM just simply look at task manager , it barely gets up to 4gb of RAM that mean 4gb is far more than enough (for now..) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubdout Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 Personally im running 16gb ddr3 no issues. Shows up in system. Highly doubt I needed it but it recognizes it. Got an R1 so not sure on R2's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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