RAM

josephc at etards.net josephc at etards.net
Wed Aug 20 13:41:10 EDT 2003


The Dimension 8100 uses RDRAM, and the 128MB chip it shipped with was only 
800mhz. RDRAM can be 3 times as much as DDR and I dont know of any places 
that sell 800mhz RIMMS. I would buy two 512/1066 chips, but expect to 
spend almost $400.

You can never have too much RAM

-joe

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Kalyan Vaidyanathan wrote:

> Hi,
>   I have a Dell Dimension 8100 desktop with 1.3 GHz.  I have redhat 8.0 and 
> Windows ME.  I am thinking of upgrading my memory.  I currently have 128MB 
> RAM. Since it is ME, Microsoft says that max recommended is 512 MB.
>   I would like to use my linux box to install and run Tomcat and a java ide. 
>   Do you think 512 (+128 existing) should be sufficient for reasonable 
> productivity?
> 
> let me know,
> thx and regards,
> -kalyan
> 
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