OK, so my old folks were complaining that Seamonkey would randomly crash hard on the computer downstairs. Well, Memtest86+ found the reason within seconds, one of the two 512 meg sticks was producing errors, and some swapping around allowed identifying the culprit.
The system is a Dell Precision 380 workstation, 955X chipset, 3 GHz Prescott, way oversized Quadro FX3400. (This was bought used when the old system's mo/bo went south. Compared to the old piece of crap case, truly a joy to work on, even if it's a BTX oddball. That graphics card is kinda noisy though, even with some RivaTuner taming.) Takes DDR2 SDRAM, dual channel with 4 slots in total. Chris Hare's list says the chipset can take up to 1 GBit per chip (so that would mean minimum 2x 8 chips for a 2 gig module). The old modules are Samsung jobs, PC2-4200U-444-10.
So what's a reliable memory manufacturer these days? (Kingston? Mushkin? Corsair? PNY? Anything else?)
I'd like to have two 1 or 2 gig sticks, should be plenty in any case (the box runs Win2k and nothing too dramatic in terms of software).
Pricing shouldn't be too far out of the ordinary (Dell is offering a memory kit for an affordable 191€, cheap eh?), but most of all I want the things to Just Work[tm] for as long as possible. So who's got correct SPD data and good soldering quality?
Side note: Turns out my ISP shut down their newsserver two weeks ago. Carp. Gotta look for a replacement... even if Usenet is mostly dead these days.
