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Title: Where\'s the best place to buy P4 ram?
Post by: Seraphim Pride on June 21, 2001, 03:56:23 PM

I have a P4(I don\'t wanna hear it!!!) and want to put an additional 256mb of ram into it but I\'ve heard from some people that you can\'t just buy 256mb of ram you have to buy like 2 64mb instead.  Can someone clear this up and suggest a good place.   Thanks

Title: Where\'s the best place to buy P4 ram?
Post by: nO-One on June 21, 2001, 04:29:08 PM

The P4 uses rdram,and it can only be used in pairs.

You should be able to get it from a bunch of online stores

Title: Where\'s the best place to buy P4 ram?
Post by: Falcon4 on June 21, 2001, 04:36:18 PM

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Originally posted by KrillinX
I have a P4(I don\'t wanna hear it!!!) and want to put an additional 256mb of ram into it but I\'ve heard from some people that you can\'t just buy 256mb of ram you have to buy like 2 64mb instead.  Can someone clear this up and suggest a good place.   Thanks

i know you think im insane, but you are the first person ive seen that has a P4.. wow.  i didnt even think it was available yet..

guess it is. how is it?

Title: Where\'s the best place to buy P4 ram?
Post by: Seraphim Pride on June 21, 2001, 05:06:15 PM

Thanks for clearing it up no-one but can you tell me of a good site.

Title: Where\'s the best place to buy P4 ram?
Post by: nO-One on June 21, 2001, 05:30:23 PM

I began by checking out http://www.pricewatch.com just to check out the price.

But I never buy online,so I really can\'t recommend a place.

Title: Where\'s the best place to buy P4 ram?
Post by: Coredweller on June 21, 2001, 07:37:18 PM

1. RTFM

2. Buy from http://www.crucial.com/  Good prices, great quality, free UPS 2nd day shipping in the US.

Title: Where\'s the best place to buy P4 ram?
Post by: videoholic on June 22, 2001, 03:19:05 AM

I have had my P4 for about 3 months now.  You ahve to buy the memory in pairs like all memory has to be in pairs.  Only prob is that rdram is no where near as cheap as all of the other slower mem chips.  If you find a good 256meg chip price, please post it.  I\'d like to make a jump too.

I have a titanium powerbook with 512 megs of ram as well and it\'s kind of funny having a little laptop more powerful than my desktop.

Title: Where\'s the best place to buy P4 ram?
Post by: nO-One on June 22, 2001, 04:35:17 AM

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Originally posted by Videoholic
I have had my P4 for about 3 months now.  You ahve to buy the memory in pairs like all memory has to be in pairs.  Only prob is that rdram is no where near as cheap as all of the other slower mem chips.  If you find a good 256meg chip price, please post it.  I\'d like to make a jump too.

I have a titanium powerbook with 512 megs of ram as well and it\'s kind of funny having a little laptop more powerful than my desktop.

dewd,you have a TiPB???

Lucky bastard....(nO-One is jealous)

Title: Where\'s the best place to buy P4 ram?
Post by: FackinKubuss on June 22, 2001, 07:20:14 AM

Like No-One said try Crucial, they\'re the best...

Falcon 4 you didn\'t know the P4 was oout yet?! It\'s beeen out for so long and I think it sucks. The most ram it can have is 800 when AMD can have DDR PC2100 RAM

Title: Where\'s the best place to buy P4 ram?
Post by: mm on June 22, 2001, 07:46:44 AM

not all memory has to be in pairs

is anyone really still using SIMMS?

Title: Where\'s the best place to buy P4 ram?
Post by: videoholic on June 22, 2001, 11:11:26 AM

Simms had to be in pairs.  I don\'t mean they HAVE to be in pairs to work, I mean that if you have two chips they have to be the same size.  They can be different speeds, but the lower speed chip will be the speed since you can\'t go any faster then the slowest speed.  Am I all wrong?  I\'ve never seen chips that you don\'t have to add like chips to make work.



And yes this titanium is pretty nice.  I\'m not really into Macs though so I am a slow go for now.  I got stuck in OS X yesterday with no way out, but after quite a while I made it out.