Dell 8200 - Adding more RAM Query

DirkVoodoo

Ok,

So i have a 4 year old Dell Dimension 8200, the general spec of which can be found here:

Dell 8200

I was hoping to give it a bit of a cleanup and install some more, and faster, RAM. However, I have learned that this range of Dell PCs they used RDRAM or RIMM. Needless to say I was shocked and heartbroken to find that even a 1GB kit of this stuff could cost about 500 euro:eek:

Anyway, im wondering if the motherboard somehow is ables to accept both 184 pin RIMM and the good ole fashioned 240 pin DDR2 stuff we all know and love, by means of some amazing multi-pin socket??(hold your laughter please)

Any help/advice from the usual suspects is, as always, greatly appreciated!

P.S. It currently has 512MB (2 x 256MB) with the two terminator dummy things.

Ruu_Old

I'm afraid I don't see anyway out here. The only thing I've seen which makes any kind of sense would be to get the next Dell motherboard up from the one you have that accepts DDR memory. Hopefully someone else knows of other ways you can sort it out. Thats a shocking price for a stick of 1gb! Go ta' hell Rambus!:mad:

K.O.Kiki

Mobo upgrade would be best upgrade here, unless you don't mind paying over the odds for Rambus RAM (which you shouldn't).

AFAIK there is no such thing as a "multi-pin socket" to interchange SD-/DDR-/DDR2-/RD-RAM -- they're all very different standards, completely incompatible.

Also: fvck Rambus!

TempestSabre

Theres simply no point upgrading the ram on that machine or the motherboard.

You'd buy a new machine for the same price.