WTB: DDR RAM and a Socket 478 mobo

[Richard Piper]

I found an excellent reference on the PowerEdge 400SC
http://www.wikifaq.com/Dell_PowerEdge_400SC_FAQs#Will_non-ECC_RAM_work.3F

If you are having swapping issues, you probably want to go to at least 1
GB of matching RAM. For a business, it's worth every penny to maximize
the throughput on the server.

Rick

On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 15:19 -0600, Jon Pruente wrote:
> 1. I'm the "in family" computer tech for my father-in-law's business.
> They are needing to upgrade the RAM in a Dell PowerEdge 400SC.  For
> that I'm looking for a matched pair of DDR400 PC3200 128MB DIMMs.  The
> system already has a pair of 128s in two slots, and I'm looking to
> fill the remaining slots cheaply and bring it up to 512MB RAM.
> Running XP SP2 and a virus scanner causes so much VM swapping that
> they can't get any work done when it runs, even on it's HT P4.
> 
> 2. For myself I'm in need of a Socket 478 motherboard, as I'm in the
> process of building up my first P4 level Linux workstation.  I've got
> two chips that need homes, a 1.8GHz Celeron and a 2.8GHz HT P4.  I'd
> prefer to get the P4 in a system, but it seems that 800FSB boards are
> not as common as 533FSBs.  If someone has something cheap I'd take it
> if it only works with the Celeron, but if someone has an 800FSB
> capable board for cheap I'd be rather happy.
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