RAM question

[Mark Szidik]

Thanks to everyone for the RAM advice.  I guess I'll just buy 4
sticks of 128MB to max it out at 512MB.  I could really use my
current 256MB stick in a server anyways.

Thanks again,
Mark Szidik

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Jo Dillon wrote:

> On Thursday 15 November 2001 21:50, Benjamin Minshall wrote:
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > This could be an issue related to "high-density" or "low-density" 256MB
> > DIMMs.  I don't know a lot about it, but I ran into some machines that were
> > only rated for 128MB chips, yet could use low-density 256MB DIMMs.  Perhaps
> > someone else could (in)validate my speculation?
>
>   Another possibility is it only has enough cache for 512MB worth of memory.
> In that case it'd boot and recognise the memory but any access that happened
> to hit the high 512MB of memory would be extremely slow. So the system would
> appear (possibly intermittently) about as fast as a 386 ;)
>
> --
>
> 	Jo
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