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PCI RAM Extender Cards?

Posted by Cliff on 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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  1. Re:Not going to work by Toraz+Chryx · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In addition, having system ram on the PCI bus will make PCI device performance (sound/IDE etc) suffer quite dramatically.