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Haddock, Re: You'll be hard pressed to find actual, inexpensive 1GB DIMMs anywhere. I managed to find some for $799 at Kingston.com, but it was only DDR333 ($526 for DDR266).

>> That's rather expensive. Even with the Euro at around $1.15 these are much cheaper at €269:
>> http://www4.alternate.de/html/nodes_info/iaidu1.html

Have you had good luck with that memory before? I usually stick to name brand memory. While it's more expensive, in my experience, it tends to work more often. How much is Infineon selling 1GB DIMMs over there?

There are no 1GB DDR400 DIMMs.

>> So it would appear. I'm sure they are on their way, though with Intel pushing the DDR400 adoption so hard.

Infineon lists DDR400 memory with 1GB DIMMs, but only "on request"

http://www.infineon.com/cgi/ecrm.dll/ecrm/scripts/prod_ov.jsp?oid=47068&cat_oid=-8005

You see, larger densities have greater tRFC timings, and it's harder to get them within spec at the higher frequencies. I'm sure we'll see these shortly, but the point I've been trying to make is that 1GB DIMMs are far from mainstream right now. 512MB is the high end DIMM size, which offers 1GB for the enthusiast market in dual channel arrays. 18-24 months from now, the memory density will double, offering 2GB enthusiast memory sizes. In 36-48 months, it will double again, and some computers will have 4GB of memory. Even at that point, which is somewhere between mid-2006 and mid-2007, 32-bit chips will still be enough, even for enthusiast computers.