Whats the deal with adding RDRAM?

[Fat Tone]

System: Dell Dimension 8100, P4 1.4GHz, 100MHz FSB, 128Mb RDRAM, running XP like a dog.

The Dell web site says it has 2 banks of 2 slots, so presumably I can add another pair of RIMMs, and presumably they are only bought in pairs.

Dell point you to Kingston ram (KTD-DM800/512 for example), which is rather expensive. Can I buy any other make (e.g. http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/k.asp?action=info&p=19795 ) ?

TIA

Tony.

[Tjalfe]

128MB of ram is bare minimum to run XP.. get more.. and yes, RDRAM has to be installed in pairs
I have never tried installing different kinds of ram in a DELL, but I see no reason why other makes of RDRAM would not work.

[Technoid]

Originally posted by tjalfe
128MB of ram is bare minimum to run XP.. get more.. and yes, RDRAM has to be installed in pairs
I have never tried installing different kinds of ram in a DELL, but I see no reason why other makes of RDRAM would not work.

If it's a Dell, then its pretty sure bet that they have donme something to make it only accept "Dell, rimms" as they do with SDRAM

[Fat Tone]

That was my concern. I've added/swapped DIMMs in Dells before, and had to put up with a warning form the BIOS at bootup, but otherwise it was fine.

T.

[Tjalfe]

and silly me thought that they used standard intel chipsets, which interface directly to the ram.. leave it to Dell to mess with that

[Technoid]

most time I have tried to add "standard" memory that works in 99% of all other computers just wont boot in Dell POS systems

EDIT: Spleling