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Kaiten · Local time: Mar 6, 2006, 08:52 PM

Originally Posted by neothe0ne

..you don't know what Fry's Electronics is, do you?

And besides, that wasn't the point. It says 512GB of RAM.

I guess Fry's loves to cater to the end user who likes to build their own mainframe and personal supercomputer.

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Kaiten · Local time: Mar 7, 2006, 09:17 AM

If they were really to give you 512GB of PC-2100 DDR, that would be over 1000 sticks, not exactly a profitable situation for Fry's. Mistakingly putting a GB (or MB in the case of Hard Drives) marking is a very common way advertisements confuse people.

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Kaiten · Local time: Mar 7, 2006, 09:53 AM

Originally Posted by Echolyn

True still most people know that it's a error, if only we really got 512gb worth of PC-2100 DDR well that would be great.

What would you do with it, 99.99% of people wouldn't be able to use 4GB of RAM on Windows XP, let alone 512GB. Of course, they'd be able to cache their entire hard drive to RAM, which would make even Windows XP run so silky smooth (you'd get read/write speeds over 500MB as opposed to 70MB even with the fastest consumer hard drives).

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Kaiten · Local time: Mar 10, 2006, 05:07 PM

Originally Posted by Monkey King

Obvious misprint, but what would be the point? Even if I had a theoretical magic motherboard that could take 512 GB worth of memory, PC2100 RAM from a generic vendor is not something I'd want to put in my computer no matter how cheap it is.

Well RAM performance (PC3200 vs PC2100) only matters if you run a very busy server or play games. Having slow RAM impacts system performance MUCH LESS than having too little RAM.

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Kaiten · Local time: Mar 10, 2006, 08:16 PM

Originally Posted by Free.User

Hey, at least they didn't use "Mb" instead of "MB".. that drives me insane.

512Gb would imply 64GB of RAM, which is what ISPs use (6Mbps sounds much more impressive than 750Kbps, and 56Kbps becomes 7 (!) Kbps).

I was speaking idiomatically.

Kaiten · Local time: Mar 10, 2006, 08:31 PM

Originally Posted by Free.User

I think you meant 7 KBps.

Yeah well, I don't pay too much attention to the shift key. They should just say "250 billion bytes" instead of 250GB, that would satisfy me. There are far too many inconsistencies in the standards here. Which is why I'm glad RAM has always meant 512MB of RAM means exactly 512MB in Windows.

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