PCI RAM Extender Cards?

Posted by Cliff on Friday November 15, 2002 @09:43PM from the bypassing-design-oversights dept.

stevejsmith asks: "I'm going to buy a Dell computer which supports DDR RAM, however it only comes with two DIMM slots. I have lying around two 128MB sticks of RAM, and want to use them. I know RAM is cheap, but I want some way to put more than two DIMMS in this system. Short of getting a new motherboard, is there any way I can add more RAM? On Slashdot I remember seeing a PCI card that help RAM for a RAM drive, but is there such thing as a PCI card that just held regular RAM for system usage? If not a PCI card, any other suggestions?"

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Don't buy an unexpandable Dell? by Toraz+Chryx · 2002-11-15 21:46 · Score: 5, Insightful

Putting ram on a PCI card is a bad idea in this day and age, peak PC2700 memory bandwidth is 2.7GB/s, peak 32/33 PCI bandwidth is 132MB... that presents something of a bottleneck :)

Just buy a computer with a sensible number of dimm slots to begin with.