I have a computer with 2GB of RAM, and will eventually change the whole motherboard, but for now I only need more memory. The problem is that the motherboard is DDR2 and only has two DIMM slots, used by two DDR2 1GB sticks.
Is there any way to use the same slots like a 2-to-1 adapter to insert more RAM, so I wouldn't have to throw away the old memory?
Could this be possible with some kind of PCI adapter? Better if it has DDR3 support so I could also use it when I buy a new motherboard.
Answer
Well, there's PCIe-based RAM storage devices but they aren't anywhere near affordable - getting a new system is cheaper. The other thing you're looking at (2-to-1 adapters) don't exist, and probably will not, ever.
The 'best' way in the short term would probably be to pop in a spare hard drive in a separate storage controller channel (on PATA), and set up a fairly large swap or pagefile on it.
Alternatively try to reduce memory use on non essential things.
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