| Walt Mankowski on 6 Sep 2007 17:49:29 -0000 |
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On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 12:15:19PM -0400, Art Alexion wrote: > On Wednesday 05 September 2007 14:55:24 Walt Mankowski wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 02:46:29PM -0400, Art Alexion wrote: > > > On Tuesday 04 September 2007 13:51:59 Brent Saner wrote: > > > > what would be nice in the future is to see consumer-level mobos with > > > > hotpluggable RAM, maybe even externally. that'd solve this entire > > > > problem. > > > > > > While this sounds cool, it also seems an expensive and inefficient way to > > > add RAM. With "hot-pluggable" RAM, I am trying to envision a reason I'd > > > want to /remove/ RAM. So if I'm adding it permanently, why not just use > > > RAM modules instead? > > > > Two reasons right off the top of my head: > > > > 1) The individual RAM chip died. > > 2) You want to remove it and replace it with a bigger RAM chip. > > Those are reasons for /replacing/ RAM, but I read this hot-plugging as adding > and /removing/ RAM as in: "I think I need an extra GB of RAM to encode this > video. ... OK, done encoding. I'll unplug it and go back to 512k." Well, if you want to replace RAM, you've got to remove the old chip before you put in the new one... Attachment:
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