[GTALUG] war story #2: buying RAM

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 11:02:12AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> A couple of RAM manufacturers have product selectors that help you a lot.  
> Lennart pointed this out.  But then you don't get the advantage of buying 
> a commodity.

I think the problem is that while ram is mostly a commodity, high
performance ram is not.  If you just wanted 16GB ram in your machine
that works, you can buy just about any ram of the right type.  It will
work, but it will certainly not be at the best performance your machine
could have.

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Len Sorensen