lam@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Tony To Lam FSN) (04/29/89)
In article <8003@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> zanetti@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@blake.acs.washington.edu> davis@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! D