[OT] Please help me buy the right memory.

[RayBob]

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

[Sheba]

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)

[Ryuben]

retail + oem


retail = boxed up and looks nice
oem = no box

[Sheba]

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)

[hinch]

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

[Iamzod]

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.

[Strych9]

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]

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.