Re: [APML] Computers and extra RAM

[Radu Corlan <rcorlan@pcnet.ro>]

On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Alan Voetsch wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> My apologies to those who'll get this twice.
> 
> Last night I ordered a computer from Gateway online. $200 off and free
> shipping. I upgraded the hard drive to 160 gb, I didn't upgrade the RAM
> because I'll add it myself (even I can do that) after it arrives. They
> wanted $100 to move it from 256 to 512mb. Now to my question.
> 
> I have another $100 to upgrade the RAM. Prices here are: $20 for 256MB
> chips and $80 for 512MB chips. These prices are after rebates. For the
> price of a 512, I can get 3 more 256MB chips (I believe there are only
> 3 expansion slots), and have money left over. I've also heard that the
> bigger MB chips are better.
> 
> What is your advice?

Alan,

With bigger chips, you can put more memory into your system (or at least 
have some room to add more in the future). But OTOH, if you can fit 1Gbyte 
into your system, that would be quite reasonable for a while.

Apart from this, larger chips aren't 'better' in any other way.

Radu

> 
> Thanks,
> Alan
> 
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