RAM prices start dropping !!!

[RoGuE]

At last.

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aka Chris H

[HedsSpaz]

And since then there has been another quake. They won't go down far and they won't stay there for long.

[IceStorm]

WHERE!!!!!!!!!!??????????

The real question:

- Do I spend $349 for PC100 ECC SDRAM DIMMs rated to 125Mhz NOW, or do I wait, seeing as how I'm not really in dire NEED of new DIMMs...

*grumble*

And I'm not buying non-ECC. That's like shooting yourself in the foot.

*grumble*

[This message has been edited by IceStorm (edited 19 October 1999).]

[Maggi]

Hi IceStorm ...

Look here: http://www.pricewatch.com/

128MB PC100 SDRAM for ~175$ ...

128MB PC100 ECC SDRAM for ~250$ ...

...

Just relax, lay back and wait

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Cheers,
Maggi
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Working Rig:
Asus P2B-DS @ 103MHz FSB
Double Pentium III-450 @ 464 MHz
4 x 128MB CAS2 SDRAM
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB DualHead
Nokia 445Xi (21")
Nokia 447Xpro (17")

Home Rig:
Asus P2B-S Bios 1010 @ 112MHz FSB
Celeron 300A @ 504MHz
2 x 128MB CAS2 SDRAM
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB DualHead @ 150/200MHz
CTX VL710T (17")

[IceStorm]

"Rooney, calm down!"

- From Ferris Beuller's Day Off, offically released on DVD Oct. 19th (nevermind the fact that I saw it at J&R Music World a month ago, in DVD format).

Anywho, I'm debating... I may order one 128MB DIMM. Need one for either a replacement for the P200MMX, or for another machine...

Hmm... 27GB HD, 128MB DIMM. Same price... Hmm...

[IceStorm]

In case anyone's interested:
http://www.egghead.com/store1/ent/eg..._id=0000023471


True blue Kingston SDRAM, with ECC, PC100 rated, CAS2 latency. I have one of these in my second machine.

I paid $270 for it way back in February, so $230's not bad...

I believe Kingston buys on allocation, not the spot market. They may be less affected by the DRAM shortage than others.

[RoGuE]

SAVE FERRIS



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aka Chris H

[The Rock]

RAM prices had nothing to do with the earthquake I'm told. All the major memory plants are in Korea, and they shut down their plants and laid off all their workers because they were making jack shit $$$ when RAM was dirt cheap. Looks like the Koreans are headed for Poorville again.



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The Rock
Home Machine: P2 350 + 128 Meg PC100 RAM + 23G Storage
Work Machine: IBM OS/390 + 10Gigs RAM + 1.5 Terabytes Storage (and no damn AGP slot...what a waste)

[HedsSpaz]

Hey Rock, you sure about that? Everything that I've read in the past month has been loudly blaming the RAM prices on the quake. As for the quake that I mentioned above. Heres the news brief. http://cnn.com/ASIANOW/east/9910/18/....ap/index.html
It does say that damage wasn't significant, only a 5.0 instead of the 7.2. so we can hope that RAM will keep coming down....

HedsSpaz

[DuRaNgO]

the quake was a way to further elevate the price, mobo shortage will be more the result of the quake
jim

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PIII-500mhz @ 620! with an Abit BE6 mobo
128mb pc-100
Mill G400(YAHOO!!!) 32mb @ 165/205 with MGATweak), PD 5.30 & bios 1.5-22
Maxtor 13.2 gb Uata66 hdd
SB Live!
Winblows 98se & DX7
FOUR BIG FANS, six little ones and with a little aluminum duct work, a case that doesn't sound like a turbine engine!
3DMark Result 5954.69 3DMarks
Synthetic CPU 3D Speed 9325.69 CPU 3DMarks
Rasterizer Score 2791.72 3DRasterMarks
Game 1 - Race 65.07 FPS
Game 2 - First Person 54.89 FPS
Fill Rate 268.79 MTexels/s

[Frank]

I'd have to go with Rock.
Ram prices have been going up well before the earthquake.
Dont know why people have used that as a reason.
But from what I have read even before the earthquake, like its said, noone was making any profit on ram as they continued to fall in price. Again, dont know why they fell in price but I certainly took advantage of it.

[Maggi]

RAM prices start dropping !!!

... ooops ... I guess it's the wrong forum

Anyway, now it starts again ... have alook for yourselves !

They lost ~30% since last week !!!

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Cheers,
Maggi
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Working Rig:
Asus P2B-DS @ 103MHz FSB
Double Pentium III-450 @ 464 MHz
4 x 128MB CAS2 SDRAM
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB DualHead
Nokia 445Xi (21")
Nokia 447Xpro (17")

Home Rig:
Asus P2B-S Bios 1010 @ 112MHz FSB
Celeron 300A @ 504MHz
2 x 128MB CAS2 SDRAM
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB DualHead @ 150/200MHz
CTX VL710T (17")

[scotty]

ferris beuller you're my hero.

alright i'll go i'll go i'll go i'll go i'll go.... BRAAAGGHHH#%$&*@#%

8¬)
scotty (aka abe froman, the sausage KING of chicago)

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p2 266@300 (4x75mhz) | qdi legend-v, lx chipset, bios 2.0sl | 96 mb pc100 | mill g200agp@99mhz 8mb sg, bios 2.6, pd 5.3 | win 98se

[RoGuE]

'Fry....?......Fry...?.....Fry..?......'



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aka Chris H

[Cade Foster]

I thought the increase was because kids were going back to school and it put such a demand on the supply. Anyway, I still have my 64MB of pc66 memory w/266 PII. It's fast enough for me. Eddy, on the other hand, has quite a faster system.

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"I will stop...the first wave"