Welcome aboard to Crucial Technology

[Jason Dunn]

<a href="http://www.crucial.com/index.asp?SiteID=ADUSPOCKETPC468X60PC133">http://www.crucial.com/index.asp?SiteID=ADUSPOCKETPC468X60PC133</a><br /><br />I'm sure that all of you have noticed the Crucial Technology banner ads running rampant throughout the site, but I wanted to give them the official welcome as a site sponsor. Crucial contacted me about their new Flash memory card products, sent me two samples, then signed up as a sponsor for the site. If only every company I dealt with was so excellent to work with! <img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif" /><br /><br />I've long been a fan of Crucial RAM, and don't use anything else in any system I upgrade or build. I've never had a problem with Crucial RAM, but I've known the pain of having a cheap piece of 3rd party brokered RAM go bad and the difficulty involved in trouble-shooting it. All of my machines have between 512 and 768 megs of pure Crucial PC133 RAM, and when I move to a new system later this year only Crucial RAM will grace it's motherboard. If you're running XP with less than 256 megs of RAM, upgrade and you'll know joy! And if you're a heavy app loader like me (you're checking your email while doing video editing and listening to your MP3s...) you'll want 512 megs or more.

[Foo Fighter]

I've long been a fan of Crucial RAM, and don't use anything else in any system I upgrade or build.

Yeah, well I also love Crucial memory - but they don't seem to offer RDRAM!!! I have to go with Kingston to upgrade my Dell Dimension 8100. :x

[lawnman]

Finally, a sponsor I would use :P Crucial does indeed make fast reliable DRAM's.

[Robotbeat]

Pfft... RDRAM... Pfft...

Anyways, I am running XP on 96 MB of PC66 RAM and before it was only 64 MB for running XP. I only have a 333MHz P2 CPU. Besides that, I rarely have more than 200 or 300 MB of free disk space... XP whines to me all the time about not enough disk space and stuff like that... hehe... silly Windows XP... hehe...

DDR RAM is the coolest, especially in the 2 cpu Athlon MP rackmount NAS box I just put together... For some reason it needed a video card, so... is a GeForce 3 enough? I mean, the GPU is an entire generation old and, you know, you gotta have absolutely the most powerful GPU in existence for a server that probably doesn't even need a monitor at all since it is going to run a sort of embedded Linux...

(My conversation:
Me: "Darn, I don't think that the 3d video card that you bought is going to work with the Linux distro we're using."
Coworker: "Well, what are going to do? It's SOOO obviously shot. Maybe it's not powerful enough?"
Me: "It's probably sucking too much power. Shame on you for buying such a powerful card. Now I have to swap it with the video card I have at home, since mine is more... ummm... energy efficient."
Coworker: "Well, before we do ANYTHING, let's run some... uhhh... BENCHMARKS on the server by trying out the response time of our RAID array in Return to Castle Wolfenstein."
)

We actually did have this conversation, but in different words. We were just joking around, but we did play Wolfenstein on it. I mean, who knows? Maybe our customer will want to do some...... ....3d CAD work or something?

[Jason Dunn]

Anyways, I am running XP on 96 MB of PC66 RAM and before it was only 64 MB for running XP. I only have a 333MHz P2 CPU.

XP will run fine on a 333 mhz CPU, but damn man, click that Crucial banner and order up some RAM! I didn't think XP would even WORK with 96 megs of RAM... 8O :D

[Dave Conger]

I didn't think XP would even WORK with 96 megs of RAM... 8O :D

And even if it does how can you stand only 96mb...shesh.

Crucial is definatly a great place for memory. So many options, you can really get just want you want. And FREE SHIPPING!

[Robotbeat]

I think that I actually have some 128 MB RAM stick lying around that I'm not using... Maybe I'll install that at the same time as adding a 12 GB hard drive I have sitting around...

[Dave Conger]

I think that I actually have some 128 MB RAM stick lying around that I'm not using... Maybe I'll install that at the same time as adding a 12 GB hard drive I have sitting around...

224mb and 12gb?!?! YOU ARE A MANIAC! That is some insane power.

...actually I think if you don't install it, I am going to come over there and do it for you...though I worry all that extra power might go straight to your head :wink: