Originally posted by: Nailbunny
Originally posted by: db
Hopelessly wishing this would bring down the price of ecc/registered....
Me too .. my dual AMD setup needs 1GB!
That's all you want? I'm wishing for the point at which I can populate my three DDR slots with 1GB ECC, each. Preferably for less than $100.00 per DIMM.
Actually, perhaps that's the whole problem (from their POV, not ours) with the memory mfg industry. They don't come up with new, incompatible, memory types often enough, forcing a system of planned-obsolecence and forced upgrades. (Like many other industries have figured out.) Instead, they keep producing it, forcing it into a commodity price slide.
Imagine DDR '02, DDR '03 standards, etc., all incompatible. Scary thought.
Maybe memory would be soldered to the mobo, instead of upgradable, like a game console. That might actually not be such a bad idea, for technical reasons. The board engineers can control the trace length/propegation delay and impedence of the busses much better that way. Imagine your mobo as similar to a high-end video card - you can buy the model with X memory standard, or 2X or 4X the memory. To upgrade, you would have to swap out your board. Considering the issues that boards are currently having with DDR400 and number of slots that can be filled and compatibility issues, and that these issues are only going to get worse, most likely, not better, I wouldn't be surprised to see this happening. I don't see consumer/hobbiest boards ever *only* sold this way though, the market just wouldn't have it. But OEM boards, certainly. It's been done in the past too.