Memory for Dimension 8100

Best thing to do is to open up the clamshell case and see how many RDRAM sticks are inside. If there are four, then two need to be removed to add two others of greater capacity. If there are two plus two CRIMM modules, remove the CRIMMs and install two RDRAM sticks. The latter is what I have seen in four surplus 8100s I bought recently.

In any event, RDRAM is pretty generic stuff, tho manufactured to higher standards than some other memory. Only a handful of manufacturers made the stuff, Samsung, Toshiba, NEC, and Infineon (Hynix). Get a matched pair from a reputable source and don't look back, despite the dis-information on the Dell web site. Even ECC RDRAM will work, altho it is more expensive than non-ECC.

The important thing here is to install exact matched pairs in each pair of memory sockets. And each pair can have different capacities, albeit with a slowdown in performance... Ben Myers