More memory for cirith-ungol
News, Technical ·Monday March 15, 2010 @ 22:51 EDT (link)
I installed the memory I bought for the MythTV/XBMC machine today (cirith-ungol), 2 Gb of Kingston DDR2 667Mhz PC2-5300 "ValueRAM" that I got from NewEgg (after first buying the wrong type and RMAing it back at a loss of about $10 for restocking, balanced by a $10 git card from my previous USB HD purchase). This takes the machine to a total of 4 Gb, which was recognized immediately on bootup (but since I'd upgraded the kernel I had to rebuild the lirc and the nVidia drivers, including applying patches attached to this Gentoo bug).
This might make 720p HD movies play a little smoother; they sometimes drag a little during fast motion. The new memory chips are half the height of the old ones, which worried me at first, but they work just fine. The machine's a few years old; must be Moore's law at work.
