advice on pc memory

[Ade007]

I need to buy more memory for my dell computer. I currently have 256mb on it. I can only buy rambus memory. I found some at frys (outpost.com). Are these fine? I may just go with 2 128mb sticks because rambus memory is expensive.

Here is the link below

http://shop1.outpost.com/search?cat=-49014&pType=pDisplay

[ROF]

At $100 for 256MB of RAM I'd save up another $100 and buy a new board, processor and 512MB of real RAM.

[jman98]

I trust Crucial
http://www.crucial.com
for my memory needs. Usually they are cheaper than what you can get in the stores and I think the quality of the memory is better. Another good vendor is Kingston at:
http://www.kingston.com

[Ade007]

thanks for your reply. jman98, both of the links you provided do not sell rambus memory.

[Nelson37]

I would take a long, long look at ROF's suggestion. You are throwing a disproportionate amount of money into a dead technology.

[budz]

I agree that you should save some money to invest in getting a new motherboard, cpu and memory. RAMBUS memory is very costly and not worth it. But if you insist check out EBAY. For $200 you can buy a AMD cpu, mobo and memory.

[rallynavvie]

If you have the right connections you can find the stuff for free. I used to work on a lot of RDRAM systems and pulled the memory before trashing them but I had a friend who used the stuff for an old Pentium server that used the stuff. I don't work with those anymore but I can't imagine the used stuff is that expensive on eBay.

But it is pretty dead technology. It was faster than the existing tech at the time but it didn't grow from there and was left in the dust pretty quick. Problem is that I think the processors were a funny socket type and may not be useable in newer boards. May just be better of building from scratch like many have already recommended.