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[prog]

Hm. I have for many years been carrying around conventional (and therefore quote) wisdom (unquote) that RAM is RAM, supported by the fact that I've never had a memory blowout. Unless I have but I've forgotten...

I didn't get big-name-brand memory (having made the purchase right after joecab's first comment) but I did at least buy from a vendor with a good rating on pricewatch. (There are many vendors with bad ratings, to be sure.)

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[jtroutman.livejournal.com]

undef had problems with bad cheap RAM, which led to removal of such RAM, and reduction of machine to 128MB. But you don't remember this because your server management company fixed it for you. :-)

[prog.livejournal.com]

Wow, really??? I honestly didn't know that! I know that you did turn off its processor overclocking, but i thought that's

Oh man. I hope this doesn't bite me. :(

BTW even though undef now has no nameservers pointing at it, please don't throw it away... i'd like to come collect it later this month. (I think it's still running and accessible by IP number, unless it isn't.)

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

I've never had a problem buying RAM from that site. I always avoid the absolute cheapest because I'm a little paranoid, but the others have been fine. I presume Deal Ram prunes out the ones with bad customer service -- at least I've known them to do so in the past.