Memory

[Tony To Lam FSN]

In article <8003 at phoenix.Princeton.EDU> zanetti at phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Gianluigi Zanetti) writes:
>We have several Iris 4D 20's and a 4D70 and they all want to have 
>their memory upgraded, but SGI wants lots and lots of money to do it.
>
>The memory seems to be in the form of 1Meg simms.  What is the preferred
>style?  How fast do they have to be?  The reason I ask is that if we could
>use mass market simms they would be at least half the price.

In article <1793 at blake.acs.washington.edu> davis at blake.acs.washington.edu 
(Darrell Davis) writes:
>We recently bought several IRIS 4D 20's with 8 meg of memory and then upgraded
>them to 16 meg ourselves.  SGI wanted about $ 1200  a meg for memory and we
>paid $ 310 a meg on the open market.  We just specified 1 meg SIMMS, 100 nsec, 
>and didn't have any trouble, they are quite easy to install, and you could 
>probably coerce your local SGI person to help you out.  We bought our memory
>from an place called "Sophisticated Circuits" here in Seattle, their phone 
>number is: (206) 547-4779.  My impression is that the price has come down 
>some from this figure. 

Will these self-installed memory invalidate the warranty or maintenance 
agreements on the machine?

8Meg is definately not enough for a 4D/120, but the official price is too much!

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