Why is Ram Dropping in price so much

[woodie1]

Read this for the M$ story on too much ram in windows.

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q253/9/12.asp?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=512&rnk=17&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=W98SE

 

[IcemanJer]

Linkified.

 

[Cyberian]

Aren't there other 'artificial' limits on total amount of RAM used depending on the system board and cache?

I had 256KB of L2 cache on an older P200 running W95a and was told that any increase in memory above 64MB would actually cause a slight decrease in performance in normal applications.
CAD/CAM, heavy photo editing and large spread sheets being notable exceptions.

 

[RossMAN]

My Intel 815e is already max'd out with 2 256MB PC133 DIMMs from Crucial.com, I paid $89.24 for each 256MB which a few months ago was a great price.

Now you can buy 512 (256x2) of Infineon RAM for $112.98 shipped from Amazon.com

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