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Say goodbye to reasonable memory prices for a good while :/
I have enough toys to hold me over until after Y2K. I figure my next big component push will come in February/March of 2000. Hopefully things will have settled down by then.
Until then, I'll probably tack on another UPS, get a stack of DVD movies, and work on software stuff instead of upgrading my hardware. Unfortunately, this means I'm stuck upgrading a couple computers with recycled hardware (not the ones I've in my .sig), instead of buying new like I wanted to. Eh, they won't be used for games, anyway.
Just my $0.02.
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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!, Altec Lansing AC5 spkrs, 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.
The pessimist says: "The glass is half empty."
The optimist says: "The glass is half full."
The engineer says: "I put half of my water in a redundant glass."
Heh, I don't know about that. There was a point where 128mb of PC100 was $112. Now, yet another artificial (IMHO) shortage [6 hour power outage? Come on.] has it up to $270?! What the hell. Yeah. this earthquake will probably make them jack up prices to near $400 for 128mb of ram.
But I really don't think people will put up with that. This has happened before, memory prices go WAY up (ever since that story of a 'factory fire' in 1992) and then they go way down.
People are going to *wait till prices go down again to buy memory*, they aren't just gonna go "durr well there was an earfquake! here's $800!"
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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
Mustard is illegal here.
Ami Y. Koriuchi - MY EMAIL IS DEAD
SYSTEM1
Asus K7V266 - Athlon XP 1800+ - GeForce 4 TI 4600 128MB -
1024 MB PC2100 DDR -
200 GB UDMA100 7200 RPM - 60GB LVD 160 10K RPM
SYSTEM2
Asus A7V133 - Athlon 1.4 - G400Max
768MB PC133 - 75 GB of 10k RPM SCSI UW
HI SOMETiMES I GO AWAY FOR LONG TIME AND COME BACK YEARS LATER HI!
dang Jorden that's cheap... I'd ask you to send me some, i'd send you some $, but the shipping would probably bring it above what it costs here anyways.
Ami Y. Koriuchi - MY EMAIL IS DEAD
SYSTEM1
Asus K7V266 - Athlon XP 1800+ - GeForce 4 TI 4600 128MB -
1024 MB PC2100 DDR -
200 GB UDMA100 7200 RPM - 60GB LVD 160 10K RPM
SYSTEM2
Asus A7V133 - Athlon 1.4 - G400Max
768MB PC133 - 75 GB of 10k RPM SCSI UW
HI SOMETiMES I GO AWAY FOR LONG TIME AND COME BACK YEARS LATER HI!
While natural disasters can have an effect on supply and pricing, this one seems more like a plan. Memory manufacturer's know you need this stuff, and cutting prices to sell it hurts all of their profit margins. I would not expect prices to fall to the level seen in October.
MSI K7D Master L, Water Cooled, All SCSI
Modded XP2000's @ 1800 (12.5 x 144 FSB)
512MB regular Crucial PC2100
Matrox P
X15 36-LP Cheetahs In RAID 0 LianLiPC70
The last time I bought RAM it was for US$95 a pop for 128MB of PC100 SDRAM. Now that I've sold my machine the price continues to skyrocket. WTF is $250 a pop. Hopefully it will be back below 200 when I'm ready to buy my Athlon at the end of next month. I hope also that Athlon and K7 MBs will drop in price during the next month when the 700 MHz ones become available
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Ryzen: Asrock B450M Pro4, Ryzen 5 2600, 16GB G-Skill Ripjaws V Series DDR4 PC4-25600 RAM, 1TB Seagate SATA HD, 256GB myDigital PCIEx4 M.2 SSD, Samsung LI24T350FHNXZA 24" HDMI LED monitor, Klipsch Promedia 4.2 400, Win11
Home: M1 Mac Mini 8GB 256GB
Surgery: HP Stream 200-010 Mini Desktop,Intel Celeron 2957U Processor, 6 GB RAM, ADATA 128 GB SSD, Win 10 home ver 22H2
Frontdesk: Beelink T4 8GB
True, SComp, I do think it's some sort of scheme... but the thing is, everything else gets progressively cheaper. Memory does not. Programs aren't going to get any smaller. But memory prices are going to keep going up. These things -usually- correct themselves.
Ami Y. Koriuchi - MY EMAIL IS DEAD
SYSTEM1
Asus K7V266 - Athlon XP 1800+ - GeForce 4 TI 4600 128MB -
1024 MB PC2100 DDR -
200 GB UDMA100 7200 RPM - 60GB LVD 160 10K RPM
SYSTEM2
Asus A7V133 - Athlon 1.4 - G400Max
768MB PC133 - 75 GB of 10k RPM SCSI UW
HI SOMETiMES I GO AWAY FOR LONG TIME AND COME BACK YEARS LATER HI!
Anyway, I think that this should have been predicted. Look at this - following the big earthquakes that have been happening recently - greece, turkey, Taiwan, and japan today and so on, can't you kind of draw a line between all these places? Bit spooky, isn't it?
Duh, I knew mem was going up (search for my prev postings) but trust me, you thought it was high before this? ROFL keep watching.
My name brand cas2 7ns PC100 128mb was $108 back in beginning of may99. Same stuff $210 last week...who knows what it'll be now, with all the speculation. Anything with pcb is high target for price hikes. Damn, I was planning on getting abit's camino or 810e board this year.
An earthquake has far more subtle effects on fabs than power outs 'n normal bullshit. Can you say 'realign every damn system and recertify yeilds'? /groan
Its also a perfect excuse for some collusion style crap.
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