Wednesday September 28, 2005
Geek Help filed in Geek
All these different types of RAM and stuff confuse me. I know it's not cool to ask for advice, but would people be willing to cast a cursory glance over these products and reassure me that there are no obvious incompatibilities?
Thanks.
Pete
Are these items compatible with Bank Balance 1.0? That's the problem I generally face with anything that I want to buy, particularly if I'm using the Joint Account hardware.
Graybo - Wednesday September 28, 2005 17:27Chip and board are both socket 754.
Board and Ramm are both DDR SDRAM.
All looks good. But I haven't built my own PC since Byte magazine got canned. So that's about the extent of help I can offer.
Adrian - Wednesday September 28, 2005 17:30Would you like my advice on this matter? (Please reply honestly.)
Vaughan - Wednesday September 28, 2005 17:32Graybo: Yes, yes, that's all covered. The total cost of all these is £135 including VAT and delivery. Which isn't bad for a new computer.
Adrian: Searching within the memory on dabs for DDR gets you non-parity, ECC Registered, ECC Unbuffered, Non-ECC, and ECC. The description for the motherboard doesn't specify any particular sort of RAM, except that it must be 184-pin DDR, so I am assuming that the memory that I've chosen above will suffice.
Vaughan: Do what feels right.
Pete - Wednesday September 28, 2005 17:44Pete, that reminds me why I stopped building my own pc's. You'llprTom's hardware page used to be good for those kinds of things. Might be worth checking it out.
Adrian - Wednesday September 28, 2005 18:03If you check the MSI site they suggest Crucial memory, specifically the exact DIMM you picked out.
I'd risk it myself.
Kevin - Wednesday September 28, 2005 20:09I'm satisfied now.
The order has been placed.
Pete - Wednesday September 28, 2005 21:02Just out of curiosity, whats the contingency plan if the same problem occurs with the new board and chips?
Adrian - Wednesday September 28, 2005 21:56Adrian: Boo, get off!
Karen - Wednesday September 28, 2005 22:38Adrian: pffft. Replace the power supply again, I guess. And if that still doesn't work then send the new board and chips back, because one of them is clearly faulty.
Pete - Thursday September 29, 2005 09:36Ditch it all and get a powerbook. Desktops are soo 1997.
Adrian - Thursday September 29, 2005 09:59That's the most pointless and unhelpful comment I have ever read in my entire life. I can't decide whether to delete it or not.
Pete - Thursday September 29, 2005 10:22Come on, have you not come to depend on me for pointless and unhelpful. Personal I would delete it and ban me from commenting.
But in fairness, on the entire internet, on all those blogs we keep hearing about, you're saying that my comment is the most pointless? Have you never seen Livejournal?
Adrian - Thursday September 29, 2005 10:32Yes. I was including LiveJournal.
Right, I'm off over to sevitz.com to get my revenge.
Pete - Thursday September 29, 2005 10:42Right, point made.
Adrian - Thursday September 29, 2005 10:56Hah! You deleted them all! You couldn't hack it could you? Could you?
Here, puss puss puss puss puss.
Pete - Thursday September 29, 2005 11:01I kept one. The one that was most related to the post.
Adrian - Thursday September 29, 2005 11:38Adrian, if we had a policy of deleting your irrelevant and useless comments, then we might as well save time and just ban you.
Karen - Thursday September 29, 2005 13:27You people are mean. Leave this Sevitz man alone, whoever he is.
anna - Thursday September 29, 2005 13:35