[ale] OT: Rambus upgrade

[miguel]

no, you cannot mix sizes. i might have 2 64 MEG rambus sticks laying
around. i might want to sell them. 

rgds
-mig
On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 19:20, Grady Harris wrote:
> I bet the answer's in a real obvious place, but it hasn't been where I looked.
> It sure doesn't seem to be with IBM e-mail support.
> 
> Some while ago, I bought an IBM Intellistation M Pro from their Clearance Corner
> website. It was a decent deal deal for the time, & their local support during
> the one incident I had while it was under warranty was astoundingly good.
> 
> However, I didn't think ahead far enough--this generation carries the accursed
> Rambus memory--man, that stuff's expensive, and I need more, mostly to
> accommodate programs that are built upon Eclipse.
> 
> Rambus, evidently, must be installed in matched pairs. Right now, the machine
> has a pair of 128 MB installed, & two more slots beside those that are filled
> with what look to be dummy placeholder cards, marked FOXCONN (motherboard
> manufacturer).
> 
> I found a pair of 256 MB Rambus cards (sticks? thingies?) on eBay, pulled from a
> working machine, it says. The seller seems to know what he's talking about, the
> part number's right, & the price is pretty good (about $85 right now).
> 
> Does anybody know if you can mix pairs? That is, one pair of 128 MB & one pair
> of 256 MB--or do all four have to be the same?
> 
> Given most of the prices I've found for this stuff, it would be more effective
> to buy a new machine, but that kind of disposable goods thinking really grates
> at me.
> 
> Grady Harris
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