Today, surfing though a couple of hardware sites I haven't visited in about a year, I saw an ad for PC1066 RDRAM at very reasonable prices. I built this computer using an Intel 850EMV2 board in May of 2002, right at the time Intel first made 533FSB available. I bought a P4 2.26Ghz processor and two sticks of Kingston 128MB RDRAM and the associated C-RIMMS to go along with it. The machine been very stable and fast as the wind - it includes, among other things, a 10,000 RPM Seagate SCSI Cheetah - but it occurs to me that nothing lasts forever, particularly in the computer business. What if my memory dies, I thought. I called Kingston to look into ordering additional memory to cover that contingency only to learn that RDRAM is now out of production. Talk about feeling like a schlemeil. Now I'm worried. If the memory goes on this thing I'm toast, or am I? Is quality PC1066 RDRAM available from any source? I can locate some suspicious stuff at a site or two, but I'd never buy it. I'd hate to be forced into investing in a whole new main system and abandon the 850EMV2 just because of the vagaries of Intel's memory preferences. That could happen, of course, if my RDRAM goes south. Thoughts?
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