Goddamn memory prices!

[PurpleHaze]

Damn!


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Ami Y. Koriuchi - foxyviolet@hotmail.com
Asus P2B 1010 - P3-500 - And a G400Max now.
256MB 6NS 70 GB of 10k RPM SCSI UW

You're a ... 'guest' ... of the Master Control Program.

[IceStorm]

Yeah, tell me about it.

They'll come down, eventually... I'd be happy with 128MB PC100 ECC SDRAM CAS2 for $250 again.

And that RAMBUS garbage isn't helping, either. Stupid gits can't even wait until the freaking technology is perfected before forcing it on the market.

[SCompRacer]

I should have got the RAM instead of the P III in October. When I got the cash up for the RAM and told my supplier I was coming, he said bring more money or leave with less memory. Another poke in the eye with a blunt stick in the journey of life.

Timing is everything in life......especially with Nitrous.

[LAMFDTK]

I went to Mushkin to buy another stick a week after I bought one a few weeks ago and the price was 30$ more that I paid! I said screw this. Now its 180$ more. hehhe

[franksch3]

Hmmm, at these prices RAMBUS might actually look cheap. Oh oh, started another conspiracy theory. ;-)

Frank

[RoGuE]

Crazy prices.

Back in July I bought a single 128MB PC100 CAS2 stick of RAM and it cost me £61 inc VAT. They now go for £230!!!



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aka Chris H

[Mark F]

Hey Frank,

You makeing fun of me??
I'm perfictly capable of doing that myself.
I just can't spell. D'oh

Mark F.

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OH NO, my retractable cup holder swallowed a CD

[SteveC]

I think it's pretty lucky that we just bought 3 servers with 3Gb of RAM between them a fortnight before the prices went sky high..... What would 3Gb cost now? ouch!

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Cheers,
Steve

PS: Some or all of the above message may be wrong, or, just as likely, correct. Depends on what mood I'm in. And what you know. ;¬)

[Zypher]

Any megastore with a decent price has been eaten up by rabid badgers already. Don't bother looking, trust me. The weekend *before* the quake, I hit 7 stores in my area. Memory was gone like canned food the day before y2k.

You want to go *back* to $250 for 128?!

Shit, May 99 128mb cas2 ecc 7ns was $120!! I grabbed two non-eccs for $108 each.

[IceStorm]

Hey, I'd rather pay $250 than $500!

First 128 PC100 ECC SDRAM CAS2 (Kingston) was $269 in March.

Second two were $129 each (in July) from Azzo - SPD says that it's rated for CAS3, but it runs just fine at CAS2 at 120Mhz.

So I've no problem with $250, but I have serious issues with $400 or $500 - takes me back to the 486 days, where 16MB, in sets of 4MB 30pin SIMMs, was $160, and Win 3.1 ruled the world. :-)


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Primary System: PIII-540 (450@4.5x120), Soyo 6BA+ III, 256MB PC100 ECC SDRAM, G400 MAX in multi-monitor mode. V2 SLI rig. Two Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 900u monitors, 3Com 3C905, SoundBlaster Live!, DeskTop Theater DTT2500 DIGITAL Speaker System (Sweeeeeet!), 2nd Parallel Port, WD AC41800 18GB HD, WD AC310100 10GB HD, Toshiba SD-M1212 6x DVD-ROM, HP 8100i CD-RW, Epson Stylus Pro, Sharp JX-9400 LJ-II compatible, OptiUPS PowerES 650, MS SideWinder Precision Pro USB joystick, Logitech 3-button mouse, Mitsumi keyboard, Win98 SE, Belkin OmniCube 4-port KVM

Secondary System: PII-266, Asus P2B BIOS 1008, 128MB PC100 ECC SDRAM, Millennium II, 3Com 3C590, ADSL Modem 640kbit down/90kbit up, 3Com 3C509, Mylex BT-930 SCSI card, Seagate 2GB Hawk, NEC 6x CD-ROM, Linux distro S.u.S.E. 6.1 (IP Masquerade works!)

Tertiary System: DFI G568IPC Intel 430HX chipset, P200MMX, 96MB of non-parity RAM, Millennium II, Intel Pro/100+ client NIC, SoundBlaster 16 MCD, Fujitsu 3.5GB HD, WD 1.2GB HD, Creative Dxr3 DVD decoder card, Hitachi GD-2500 6x DVD-ROM, Win98 SE

All specs subject to change.



[This message has been edited by IceStorm (edited 09-30-1999).]

[KvHagedorn]

I count myself lucky to have bought in July now. I got 2 Corsair 128mb PC133s for $320 then. This would now cost me about $840!!!

BTW, the price trend long term is still generally downward. Just wait awhile if you missed the boat. I remember spending about the same $300 2 years ago for 2 32mb EDO SIMMs.

And yes, I too am suspicious when something like this happens just when Intel needs it to so they can ram rambus down our throats and make RIMMs look competitive.

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Kind Regards,

KvH



[This message has been edited by KvHagedorn (edited 09-30-1999).]

[KvHagedorn]

BTW, just checked ESC for prices in general, and guess what? The new 512mb Corsair DIMMs are now available! Only $1572 for one stick of it! Lessee.. now if I were to max out the memory on my GX board, I would need four of these.. Wow! that's only $6288!! I'm gonna call them RIGHT NOW!!

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Kind Regards,

KvH

[DentyCracker]

Bought 512 MB in June for $380. Was going to stock up because I couldn't imagine the prices going much lower than $95 dollars for a 128 stick o' PC100. Damn, I wish I had_bought the dozen sticks. Could have mde a bundle.

[Warrior Acolyte of M]

<tt>System: online.

Subject: PurpleHaze ...analyzing...
Analysis: PurpleHaze is an <u>unauthorized</u> USER in privileged memory space.
Actions:
1. Inform MCP of intrusion.
2. Shutdown all I/O gates.
3. Dispatch Sentient and Sentinel units.
4. Capture and subjugate subject.
5. Interogate subject of renegade program Tron's memory address.

End of Line.
End of Program.</tt>


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Warrior Acolyte of M, Alter-Ego of JamesA who BOLDs a lot.
Now equipped with Holy Asbestos Armor designed by Dilitante.

[Zypher]

Nah intel is going to lose some serious rambus battles now..maybe not the war, but some pyhric (sp?) victories will be a coming.

First off, no chipset to use it with. OOPS.

Second, even PC100 beats the crap out of it. Bandwidth don't mean shit to us low end users, LATENCY is king. Cas2 PC133 eats rambus for lunch. Maybe quad xeons or true 300mhz system buses is where rambus could win. It cannot TOUCH the 'pc' market though.

Third, most of the memory companies secretly HATE rambus. (Rambus is a IP company...a lot of 'hard' companies cannot stand them, plus can you say 'royalty'? ) The other comapnies openly piss on rambus, such as the ones with executives writing editorials to EEtimes. Many would like to just fix up the fabs a bit, and pump out 128 mbit PC266 ddr-sdram ram all day long, and double the profit margin. Rambus is not a easy transition, but they still kiss intel ass right now. With 820 delays, the ice is wearing very thin though. Via is loving it, but their past chipsets have kinda sucked...though BX won't be king too much longer IMHO.

Fifth rambus is not super new...some shit ass graphics cards used it in the past. I don't see any using it today, do you? Nope, fast sd/gram.

BTW, ramitwherethesundontshinebus is *STILL* more $$$ than pc133 right now.

This coming year is going to be a *very* intresting shakeup indeedy.

/end rantbus