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Hey guys,

I'm presently looking for recommendations on a good online store from which to buy some additional memory for my Sun Ultra 24 workstations. The site ideally needs to have a rather broad selection, i.e. Newegg.com and Amazon won't cut it, as the Ultra 24s specifically require unregistered, unbuffered ECC RAM (a lot of stores I've visited have only vanilla desktop memory, while still others have plenty of buffered, registered ECC RAM, but no unbuffered, unregistered ECC RAM). Crucial.com has the specific DIMMs I need, at prices still less than the rape-me-in-the-ass pricing Sun Microsystems charges, but I'd rather go a bit cheaper than that if at all possible. I have periodically seen good deals on RAM on eBay but it seems to me like in the event I were shipped incompatible RAM, returns might be more of a hassle with some random seller there.

The amusing element is how relatively obscure the specific RAM the Ultra 24s want, even though it is standard. Its like O negative blood...

www.newegg.com should have it. DDR2?

I bet you can find something using Google Product Search.

Er... I know you said "not newegg", but it seems like that site does have exactly what you need. There's a server memory category, and you can specify ECC yes/no and Buffered yes/no.

Is something like this what you need?

Yeah, that looks good. I also need to brush up on my browsing skills apparently.

Now I just have to debate with myself what specific configuration to do.

Presently, my two Ultra 24s have a pitiful amount of rAM given their capabilities, with one having only a gig, and the other, two gigs (and the former has a core2quad and the latter a core2extreme). I think I'll go to four gigs on the weaker one, using the existing DIMMs I have, and adding one additional 1 gig DIMM, and go to 8 gigs on the stronger one...

Thanks again for your help. By the way, the nView software you can get with the NVS-290 GPU kicks ass.