Why is PC100 SDRAM so expensive?

[Gewehr98]

If anybody needs 128Mb PC800-45 RDRAM sticks, let me know. 

I have a bunch for free.  They make good tongue depressors, too.   

[Brad Johnson]

I need four 512mb sticks.  Anyone have that?

Brad

[mtnbkr]

Found a seller online with 512mb PC133 Low Density DIMMS for $17 each shipped.  I bought two and will keep one of the existing 256mb PC100 DIMMS for a total of 1200Gb.  That should be adequate now that I've pared the running process down to only what I need (at least at this runlevel, if I switch to the gui runlevel it all comes back).

Chris

[AZRedhawk44]

Why is PC100 SDRAM so expensive?

It isn't expensive unless you want a stick in larger quantities than was originally thought appropriate to consumer grade upgrades.

16's, 32's, 64's, 128's and 256's are cheap and nearly disposable.  512's are hard to find and expensive, but still reasonably useful to tech-geeks wanting to keep an old warhorse on the line.  I don't think I've heard of a 1gb stick of SDRAM.  Maybe someone has made some by now.  Who knows.

[Perd Hapley]

I'm about to buy some memory sticks that are the right type for my PC, except that they have ECC.  Would ECC keep a memory stick from working in a PC?  Anybody tried that?

It's a Gateway 300s, IIRC.  It doesn't "support" ECC, but I don't know whether that means it wouldn't check errors, or whether it just wouldn't work at all. 

[Thor]

I might have to jump in here and recommend Pricewatch.com. I've found plenty of good deals through that site. Especially on memory..

[Gewehr98]

A lot of times regarding ECC memory, if the chipset doesn't support it, it just disables the ECC function in the memory, forcing it to run as non-ECC.  Same goes if you mix ECC memory with non-ECC memory, it just defaults to non-ECC mode.

You should be fine with it, Fistful.

[mtnbkr]

Ugh.  The memory I bought wasn't low density as advertised.  Back it goes. :(

Chris