[tech] New userbox/fileserver

James Cox coxy at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Tue Aug 17 19:41:07 WST 2004



On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Davyd Madeley wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 19:28 +0800, James Cox wrote:
> > >
> > > Kingston RAM, 2gig DIMMs $1,226.29 ea (DDR2 PC4200)
> >
> > Now that's not so awesome. It costs more (is it even registered RAM?) will
> > be slower and isn't even supported for our model of Opteron.
>
> a 2 gig DIMM, yes it is registered and ECC. It is PC4200, the fastest
> RAM currently on the market. It also has a lifetime warranty. Tell me
> what you think it should cost?

I'm sure the price is reasonable, it's just that the 242 will run it at a
slower speed and we won't get the slight boost from dual-channel. Thus,
two sticks of 1 GB each are a better deal overall.


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