View Full Version : [OT] Please help me buy the right memory.
I am trying to add 512 MB of PC-800 RDRAM to my Dell 8200. I know I have to buy 2 x 256 MB modules.
Look at the screenshot below and tell me why it costs more money to buy a kit of 2 x 256 modules than 2 individual 256 modules.
http://w3.bllvwa.cablespeed.com/~raymondac/memory.jpg
In case it helps, this is the exact description of my memory according to Dell: Rambus Inline Memory Module, 256, 400M, 128X16, 8C, 40
Thanks
Ray
there is only one price listed? And the one on the left is 1 512 stick...
Also one is Retail and one is OEM (Original Equipment Manufacture)
retail + oem
retail = boxed up and looks nice
oem = no box
Originally posted by Ryuben
retail + oem
retail = boxed up and looks nice
oem = no box
See you make it sound so easy! I should have said..
Retail= expensive w/t extended warrenty
Oem= Cheap w/t warrenty ( till you open it)
use the cruicial website www.crucial.co.uk i think just select your pc manufacturer and model number and it picks all the ram just for your pc
Crucial dont do RDRAM.
I think the kits with 2 Sticks are pre-tested to work with each other, i got a 2nd PC thats got 4 Samsung RDRAM sticks in it and some of the sticks appear to not match up as if i put em in the wrong order the PC wont boot.
Stick on the left is a single 512 stick, not 2 256 sticks. So you are paying for 512 ram AND the convenience of getting it on a single stick instead of taking up two MB slots for it.
Forget My Name
17-03-04, 15:50
you always need to buy rimms in pairs.
unless your getting two 512's, do not get the single 512.
my computer has 4 x 256 rimms.
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