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  • RAM prices start dropping !!!

    At last.

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    aka Chris H

  • #2
    And since then there has been another quake. They won't go down far and they won't stay there for long.
    Primary System:
    MSI 745 Ultra, AMD 2400+ XP, 1024 MB Crucial PC2100 DDR SDRAM, Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro, 3Com 3c905C NIC,
    120GB Seagate UDMA 100 HD, 60 GB Seagate UDMA 100 HD, Pioneer DVD 105S, BenQ 12x24x40 CDRW, SB Audigy OEM,
    Win XP, MS Intellimouse Optical, 17" Mag 720v2
    Seccondary System:
    Epox 7KXA BIOS 5/22, Athlon 650, 512 MB Crucial 7E PC133 SDRAM, Hercules Prophet 4500 Kyro II, SBLive Value,
    3Com 3c905B-TX NIC, 40 GB IBM UDMA 100 HD, 45X Acer CD-ROM,
    Win XP, MS Wheel Mouse Optical, 15" POS Monitor
    Tertiary system
    Offbrand PII Mobo, PII 350, 256MB PC100 SDRAM, 15GB UDMA66 7200RPM Maxtor HD, USRobotics 10/100 NIC, RedHat Linux 8.0
    Camera: Canon 10D DSLR, Canon 100-400L f4.5-5.6 IS USM, Canon 100 Macro USM Canon 28-135 f3.5-5.6 IS USM, Canon Speedlite 200E, tripod, bag, etc.

    "Any sufficiently advanced technology will be indistinguishable from magic." --Arthur C. Clarke

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    • #3
      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).]
      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."

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      • #4
        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
        ________________________

        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")
        Despite my nickname causing confusion, I am not female ...

        ASRock Fatal1ty X79 Professional
        Intel Core i7-3930K@4.3GHz
        be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 2
        4x 8GB G.Skill TridentX PC3-19200U@CR1
        2x MSI N670GTX PE OC (SLI)
        OCZ Vertex 4 256GB
        4x2TB Seagate Barracuda Green 5900.3 (2x4TB RAID0)
        Super Flower Golden Green Modular 800W
        Nanoxia Deep Silence 1
        LG BH10LS38
        LG DM2752D 27" 3D

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        • #5
          "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...
          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."

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          • #6
            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.
            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."

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            • #7
              SAVE FERRIS



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              aka Chris H

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              • #8
                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)
                Bart

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                • #9
                  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
                  Primary System:
                  MSI 745 Ultra, AMD 2400+ XP, 1024 MB Crucial PC2100 DDR SDRAM, Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro, 3Com 3c905C NIC,
                  120GB Seagate UDMA 100 HD, 60 GB Seagate UDMA 100 HD, Pioneer DVD 105S, BenQ 12x24x40 CDRW, SB Audigy OEM,
                  Win XP, MS Intellimouse Optical, 17" Mag 720v2
                  Seccondary System:
                  Epox 7KXA BIOS 5/22, Athlon 650, 512 MB Crucial 7E PC133 SDRAM, Hercules Prophet 4500 Kyro II, SBLive Value,
                  3Com 3c905B-TX NIC, 40 GB IBM UDMA 100 HD, 45X Acer CD-ROM,
                  Win XP, MS Wheel Mouse Optical, 15" POS Monitor
                  Tertiary system
                  Offbrand PII Mobo, PII 350, 256MB PC100 SDRAM, 15GB UDMA66 7200RPM Maxtor HD, USRobotics 10/100 NIC, RedHat Linux 8.0
                  Camera: Canon 10D DSLR, Canon 100-400L f4.5-5.6 IS USM, Canon 100 Macro USM Canon 28-135 f3.5-5.6 IS USM, Canon Speedlite 200E, tripod, bag, etc.

                  "Any sufficiently advanced technology will be indistinguishable from magic." --Arthur C. Clarke

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                  • #10
                    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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                    128mb pc-100
                    Mill G400(YAHOO!!!) 32mb @ 165/205 with MGATweak), PD 5.30 & bios 1.5-22
                    Maxtor 13.2 gb Uata66 hdd
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                    Epox 8K7A
                    2x256mb Micron pc-2100 DDR
                    an AGP port all warmed up and ready to be stuffed full of Parhelia II+
                    SBLIVE 5.1
                    Maxtor 40g 7,200 @ ATA-100
                    IBM 40GB 7,200 @ ATA-100
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                    • #11
                      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.

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                      • #12
                        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 !!!

                        ------------------
                        Cheers,
                        Maggi
                        ________________________

                        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")
                        Despite my nickname causing confusion, I am not female ...

                        ASRock Fatal1ty X79 Professional
                        Intel Core i7-3930K@4.3GHz
                        be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 2
                        4x 8GB G.Skill TridentX PC3-19200U@CR1
                        2x MSI N670GTX PE OC (SLI)
                        OCZ Vertex 4 256GB
                        4x2TB Seagate Barracuda Green 5900.3 (2x4TB RAID0)
                        Super Flower Golden Green Modular 800W
                        Nanoxia Deep Silence 1
                        LG BH10LS38
                        LG DM2752D 27" 3D

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                        • #13
                          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
                          p2 266@300 (4x75mhz) | qdi legend-v, lx chipset, bios 2.0sl | 96 mb pc100 | mill g200agp@99mhz 8mb sg, bios 2.6, pd 5.52 | win 98se

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                          • #14
                            'Fry....?......Fry...?.....Fry..?......'



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                            aka Chris H

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                            • #15
                              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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