Re: Dimms in a 170

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 12:14 AM 02/11/2000 -0500, you wrote:

Wouldn't work.  Guarantee it.

Al




>Well, I've got a interesting reply:  WHy not just go down to your local
>Compusa and buy a few meg of 168 dimms and plug them in!?  Uh, I'ld
>suggest you backup your entire system before, AND if anything goes wrong,
>put the OLD memory back in BEFORE calling support...:)
>
>DOn in DC...
>
>On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, David Shea wrote:
>
> > This may be a dumb question, but I have to ask it...
> >
> > So I added 256MB to my 170 (a pair of 128's) to the tune of $2500.00.  Boy,
> > they sure _look_ like 168 pin Dimms, but I didn't put them side by side
> > with, say, some PC100 DIMMS.  CISC memory... at least that LOOKED
> > different...
> >
> > I assume that there really is some reason that these things cost ten times
> > the PC memory?
> >
> > Any thoughts?  Even 'third party' memory is way up there in price.
> >
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