1GB DIMM?

Good question!

It is EXTREMELY DIFFICULT to find a single 1GB stick of PC133 168 PIN non-ECC 3.3 volt SDRAM. If you happen to find one you may pay upwards of $200.00 or possibly more! PC133 is going the way of the dinosaur and will soon most likely be out of production altogether. I really think that was the main reason Roland stuck with the 512MB limit on the Fantom G. They realized that a 1GB stick of non-ECC PC133 would be almost impossible to find on todays market! Although, Roland could have circumvented that scenario by putting "two" memory slots on the G. Two 512MB sticks of PC133 SDRAM can still be obtained relatively inexpensively in todays market. Adding another memory slot on the Fantom G would have cost next to nothing for R&D and would have raised the overall price of the Fantom G just a few bucks, if at all in my opinion.

Having said that, I did find one particular company that still sells a 1GB stick of PC133 168 PIN non-ECC 3.3 volt SDRAM for a really good price actually. It is an e-Bay seller by a company called MemoryTen. Here is the link:

1GB stick PC133 non-ECC 168 PIN SDRAM

If anyone feels adventurous and decides to get it let us know if it works with the Fantom G with OS update 1.10. Or if anybody else already has any 1GB PC133 non-ECC SDRAM and doesn't mind trying it on the G and reporting back with the results we would appreciate it. If a 1GB stick will now work with OS update 1.10 on the G, I may indeed go ahead and buy a stick for my G7.

I have that exact MemoryTen 1GB stick. It was either that stick, at nearly $200, or the Kingston-branded stick for $300. I chose the MemoryTen stick. And, yes it worked great in my Fantom-X8, but not in a v1.03 Fantom-G8. Will try it on the new G, with its updated ROM (1.10), as soon as I get around to it. I don't expect it to work either, so I haven't been too motivated.

I'm curious to find out if you did get the 1 gig Dimm memory to work in the Fantom G? This is after the new OS upgrade.

I suppose that no one at Roland knows.......

I bought the dimm memory on ebay. It costs $1.85 plus $9.95 s & h. I installed it in my G7 and it works perfectly. The seller on ebay is smilentango. He has 250 of them for sale. Just do a search on ebay with dimm memory 512 168 pin and it should come up.

+1 for smilentango 512Mb memory.
Same shipping worldwide!

crybaby:

Sorry, no. I didn't yet take the trouble to try it out my 1GB DIMM with the new OS yet. I upgraded/installed my OS, but I just didn't get around to getting "under the G's hood" just yet. I'm re-arranging all the gear in my studio, so everything's been in disarray for the last couple weeks. Sorry, I know, many of you are waiting patiently for an answer on this. Will post results as soon as I try it.

I bought a 512 meg DIMM from Smiletango on Ebay as well. Just installed it last night, appears to work like a dream, as my G8 sees it. Haven't sampled/saved anything to it, but I have no reason to believe that it won't work.

Prompt shipping, great Ebayer. No gripes...go save yourself some money and get solid RAM for $10!

what about 1gb? does it works?

Sorry, still haven't tried it yet with the updated firmware. My guess is, "NO."

My guess, as well.

Thanks for the EBay tip about smilentango...just placed my order and there are still 243 left!

I just placed mine too. I will try it upon receiving my 1gb on the FG. thanks for the tip. aloha!

So RAM in the Fantom G acts as storage? (different from regular RAM in our compuuters)?

onfyre, no, RAM in the Fantom-G is just like RAM in your computer, so it's for quick operations on temporary data which is lost on power off. For actual storage the G uses USB drives.