I recently came across an old Gateway Performance 1400 that needed fixing. Generally a PC this old is to be considered “Scrap” and usually I advise the client that it’s measure for the dreaded replacement. Then comes the painful affect of moving of data apps and all of the other nightmarish cram that comes to the small business owner requiring a computer upgrade.
But this computer was just a bit different as are many other RDRAM based Pentium 4 computers with a 400mhz lie Side Bus. It came with Windows ME installed originally back in 2000. Over the years the owner upgraded to Windows 2000 and recently upgraded the OS to Windows XP.
Now act in mind that this box only had 128mb of ram … and XP actually ran on it. It was slow with that 128mb of ram but comfort usable for most business tasks. But one particular app was having problems due to the low amount of RAM available to it.
I started pricing a unify of 512 sticks of PC800 RDRAM for it but the retail determine from the bigger internet stores for that write of RDRAM was around four hundred dollars at the time. Since I could buy a cheap Budget business PC with DDR2 ram for a couple of hundred bucks more it wouldn’t have been worth the upgrade for my client. Thats where ebay comes in.
I open the same 1gb kit on ebay for under two hundred dollars and that included shipping and postal insurance. The seller’s hold on is “ ” and they furnish a really great way to get some extra life out of those old RDRAM machines. I also added a salvaged secondary 40 gig hard plough from the junk arrange (to back up speed up swap-file in-out) and the forge is now as fast if not faster than most new budget priced business PCs but at less than half the cost of buying new and with no included data migration pain.
Here is a enumerate of the RDRAM machines that are salvageable with this simple grade:COMPAQDeskpro EN Rambus ;EXS Desktop. EXS P IV;Presario 7000T. 7120US. 7126CL;Workstation 300. AP240. AP250. AP550. SP750;Evo Workstation W6000. W8000.
DELLDimension 8250. 8100. 8200 (both 400FSB and 533MHz FSB);Dimension XPS B533R. B600R. B667R. B733R. B800R. B866. B866R. B933. B933R. B1000. B1000R. B1130. B1.13R;OptiPlex GX200. GX300. GX400;Precision 667. 733. 800. 866. 933;Precision Online Trading Workstation;Precision Workstation 220. 330. 340(both 400FSB and 533MHz FSB). 350((both 400FSB and 533MHz FSB). 420. 530. 620.
GATEWAYGATEWAY 700C. 700L. 700L2. 700S. 700SE. 700X. 700XL. Performance 1300. 1400. 1500. 1600. 1700. 1800. 2000;E Desktop Series E4400. 4400SE. 4600SE. 4600XL. 4650. 4650 Deluxe. 6000 Deluxe. 6000LProfessional S 1300. 1400. 1500. 1600 ,1700.
HPPavilion 1G; 7960. 7970. 9795. 9720;HP Workstation X1100. X2000. X2100. X4000;Kayak X2000. X4000. XM600. XU700. XU800
IBMNetVista A60i 6832. A60 6833;Intellistation M Pro 6229. 6849. 6850. 6866. 6868;Intellistation Z Pro 6866.
SonyVaio PCV-RX66. RX76. RX370. RX380. RX370DS. PCV-RX380DS. RX462. RX462DS. RX463DSVaio PCV-RX465DS. RX470DS. RX480DS. RX490TV. PCV-RX500E. RX600E. RX600N. RX790C. RX790G
Thanks to for the above table. (as well as for the excellent broach)
So if you have one of these PC800 RAMBUS RAM machines or you find one in the negociate bin of your local computer superstore (I see the IBM boxes at Microcenter now and then) bump up the RAM to a gig or two add a second Disk and cheaply get another two or three years of life out of equipment you would otherwise retire.
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