RAMBUS - Please HelpFollow

Ok, so I've got a Gateway 700S, and I'll never buy another computer from Gateway or Dell or any of them, but it's what I'm stuck with at the moment...

I've got 512MB at the moment and the consensus is that 1Gb total is the way to go, but of course Kingston and Crucial don't sell RAMBUS (from what I can tell, at least not for my system)...

I call Gateway and they want to charge me ~$330 for a couple modules of 256MB or ~$530 for a pair of 512MB...This is more than I was planning on spending...

Do I have any other options?

I had a hard time finding this memory also.
The prices for Rambus seem to keep getting higher, so i went ahead and bought 2 sticks of 512 (1.5 gigs total now), bought mine at http://www.memory4less.com/
EQ2 runs much much better--zoning from about 1 minute to about 10 seconds.
Good luck.

Thanks for the replies...

What is RIMM? and PC800? Will that affect whether or not it will work in my system?

Seems the cheapest I see it for is about $180, which is considerably cheaper than what Gateway is offering, but you can get a gig of DDR for cheaper than that, so it still stings...

Someone on another board suggested it wasn't really worth upgrading, and I kind of agree, because once I add another pair, I won't be able to add anymore and I'll be maxed out at a gig, which I'll probably want to upgrade before long, so I'm considering saving my money and building a new system...

Problem is I don't really know much about computers...I've read that it's not that tough to build your own system, but where would I find which components are best? and how to put them together, and what components I need, etc. etc...?

And how much, ball-park, would it cost to build a new system say ~3ghz, mid-high graphics card, 1-2 gig RAM?