UK Dimension 8200 - RAM upgrade (where from)

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Hi All,

Dimension 8200, 2.0Ghz, 512Mb RAM. Went to Dell (UK) site to upgrade RAM
and was a bit suprised to be quoted £641.53 to upgrade from 512Mb to 1.5Gb
(this was the only option available).

£641. Wow. Actually for 'a bit surprised' read ****ing hopping mad. I
could get a new system for that!!

Anyway, best price I've been quoted is £155 from orcalogic.co.uk to ugrade
to 1Gb (2*256Mb) and wondered if anyone has any advice regards upgrading
Dimension 8200 RAM in the UK?

Cheers

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Very little RAMBUS memory is manufactured any more, so prices have climbed back
up to the stratosphere where they were when the stuff was first manufactured.
Still, you can do much much better than Dell's prices. With the 2GHz CPU, your
system can accept the more common and less expensive PC800 memory. RAMBUS
memory is generic. All the manufacturers (Samsung, NEC, Toshiba, etc.) licensed
the design from the RAMBUS company, and manufacture it to pretty rigid
standards. If you find ECC memory for cheap, fine. But the 8200 runs perfectly
well with non-ECC memory... Ben Myers

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 03:44:04 +0000 (UTC), "Chas" <chas@nospamhere.net> wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>Dimension 8200, 2.0Ghz, 512Mb RAM. Went to Dell (UK) site to upgrade RAM
>and was a bit suprised to be quoted £641.53 to upgrade from 512Mb to 1.5Gb
>(this was the only option available).
>
>£641. Wow. Actually for 'a bit surprised' read ****ing hopping mad. I
>could get a new system for that!!
>
>Anyway, best price I've been quoted is £155 from orcalogic.co.uk to ugrade
>to 1Gb (2*256Mb) and wondered if anyone has any advice regards upgrading
>Dimension 8200 RAM in the UK?
>
>Cheers
>
>
>
>

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"Chas" <chas@nospamhere.net> wrote in message
news:cthl64$o2v$1@hercules.btinternet.com...
> Hi All,
>
> Dimension 8200, 2.0Ghz, 512Mb RAM. Went to Dell (UK) site to upgrade RAM
> and was a bit suprised to be quoted £641.53 to upgrade from 512Mb to 1.5Gb
> (this was the only option available).
>
> £641. Wow. Actually for 'a bit surprised' read ****ing hopping mad. I
> could get a new system for that!!
>
> Anyway, best price I've been quoted is £155 from orcalogic.co.uk to ugrade
> to 1Gb (2*256Mb) and wondered if anyone has any advice regards upgrading
> Dimension 8200 RAM in the UK?
>
> Cheers
>
http://www.cclonline.com/product-c [...] ory_id=108

2 x 256mb there will set you back £114.78 + about a fiver for shipping.