Dell and Rambus

[Machpro]

Hi
I have a Dell Dimension 8200 (P4 at 2.53Ghz, Inter 850-E chipset) that was delivered with 512Mb Rambus (PC800, 40ns).
I wish to extend to 1Gb so I looked around and found that (in my country, Sweden, I do not know whether it is the case everywhere else) :
* A genuine Kingston module (2*256Mb) but not "Dell tested" is costing about 350$
* A genuine Kingston module (2*256Mb) "Dell tested" is costing about 600$
(Yes, I know it's VERY expensive but what can I do?)
Is it important and/or compulsory to install a "Dell tested" or can I buy the cheap one?
Thanks
Regards

 

[roxbcs]

The past few years Dell has gone very much proprietary. Does this RAM have a return warranty? If so i would try it and if it does fine you have saved some money.

 

[edemiere]

I don't know, at that kind of expense, I would recommend getting and industry standard motherboard with an intel cpu in it along with 1gb of standard ram and just gutting your computer of its motherboard and sell that stuff on ebay to recoup your costs.

That is just crazy amount of money for memory alone, especially when you can buy 512MB PC3200 Corsair memory for $75.

Think about that before you sink that kind of money into something so proprietary.

Good luck!