SODIMMs vs DIMMs and Performance

Optimus Prime

Optimus Prime

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Sep 29, 2014
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I'm ready to move to a dedicated BI machine. Is there a performance difference between SODIMMs and regular sized DIMMs?

Also, is there a thread where the good deals of the day are being posted? Each time I go look, I cannot find 6th gen i7, with OS, and room for 2 drives, for the great prices every one keeps saying they find.
 
Optimus Prime said:
I'm ready to move to a dedicated BI machine. Is there a performance difference between SODIMMs and regular sized DIMMs?

Also, is there a thread where the good deals of the day are being posted? Each time I go look, I cannot find 6th gen i7, with OS, and room for 2 drives, for the great prices every one keeps saying they find.
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Hi @Optimus Prime

in general the focus is first on buying the appropriate PC for your needs. Once you determine that - then typically you will be locked into either SODIMM or DIMM for the ram.

Of course, there's actually a lot more that just SODIMM vs DIMM in terms of memory performance issues.
 
Thanks @mat200. It's less of what I "need" and more of what I "want". What I want is a form factor to hold an SSD (or NVMe) and qty 2, 3.5" drives. Then in that decision, I want the newest i7 within a price break.
 
@Walrus I agree...and a lot of times a "desktop" is often times really a laptop in a larger container. That said, all of these Sub $500 BI recommendations seem to always have SODIMMs, which is why I was curious how much of performance hit there would be.
 
Optimus Prime said:
@Walrus I agree...and a lot of times a "desktop" is often times really a laptop in a larger container. That said, all of these Sub $500 BI recommendations seem to always have SODIMMs, which is why I was curious how much of performance hit there would be.
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No they aren't, and no they don't. The recommended HP Elitedesk SFF G4 uses a desktop processor, not a 15W laptop processor with slower speed. It also takes full sized UDIMM ram, not laptop SODIMM. You must be looking at mini PCs instead of SFF PCs. Mini PCs use mobile processors and ram, eg NUC
 
@Walrus It is possible I just have bad luck when looking through specs. Whenever I have had boxes in the past, and they had SODIMMS, I basically wanted to throw it away. I clicked through your links and finally found a spec sheet with the drive bay info. This is a nice computer! Thank you.
 
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