Just idle curiosity mainly. I have a nice older Intel board that only supports 2 Gig DDR2 RAM, the board has PCIe and SATA and a whole host of other goodies, so the 2 gig limitation seems arbitrary.

Memory, or RAM, is one of the most important components in any PC. Without RAM, your PC cannot run. That certainly makes the prospect of it ever failing sound quite daunting, which is why you might be ...