More Ram for a Dell

Florence · 10-08-2006, 04:32 PM

My friend has a Dell Dimension 8250 and needs more ram, but Dell wants so much for there ram, she only has 256 and would like that much more. I found one place called Edge, are they reliable?
If you know of another one let me know.

Florence

**linderman** · 10-08-2006, 04:46 PM

RDram also known as Rambus ram i very expensive and so became very unpopular

you may have some better luck on ebay but you arent gonna steal any, you can bet on that!!!!

**Bartender** · 10-08-2006, 08:33 PM

The story behind Rambus, the makers of RDRAM, is an interesting one. Intel made the mistake of championing RDRAM, which was horribly expensive and didn't offer much of an improvement over plain old SDRAM. The market balked. Rambus started throwing lawsuits around, claiming they owned the rights to SDRAM as well as RDRAM. The house of cards collapsed when Intel withdrew their backing.
Unless you can find some RDRAM dirt cheap out of a broken PC, you might be better off to just save for a new PC. Turn the old one into a Linux PC.

10-08-2006, 04:32 PM	#1 (permalink)
Florence Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Northern CA. Posts: 70 OS: xp Home addition service pack 3	More Ram for a Dell My friend has a Dell Dimension 8250 and needs more ram, but Dell wants so much for there ram, she only has 256 and would like that much more. I found one place called Edge, are they reliable? If you know of another one let me know. Florence __________________ Dell Inspiron 530 intel Core2 Processor Q6600 w/quad Technology and 8MB cache 3GB DDR2 SRAm at 800MHz 500GB Hard drive Avast antivirus /spybot /Super Antispy

10-08-2006, 04:46 PM	#2 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,437 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	RDram also known as Rambus ram i very expensive and so became very unpopular you may have some better luck on ebay but you arent gonna steal any, you can bet on that!!!! __________________ I still know nothing and I respect that fact, striving to improve and, along the way, help anyone that comes from the place that I used to be! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial

10-08-2006, 08:33 PM	#3 (permalink)
Bartender Mentally divergent Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Chehalis, WA, USA Posts: 1,285 OS: W2K, Ubuntu 8.04	The story behind Rambus, the makers of RDRAM, is an interesting one. Intel made the mistake of championing RDRAM, which was horribly expensive and didn't offer much of an improvement over plain old SDRAM. The market balked. Rambus started throwing lawsuits around, claiming they owned the rights to SDRAM as well as RDRAM. The house of cards collapsed when Intel withdrew their backing. Unless you can find some RDRAM dirt cheap out of a broken PC, you might be better off to just save for a new PC. Turn the old one into a Linux PC.