Topic: RAM Prices...As a techie, i cant believe this....

[CFA_Admiral_Tige]

Geez...what did I start here....14 posts about HARDWARE in one day?????  Maybe I should post techie stuff more often!!!



Tiger

[TB613]

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Geez...what did I start here....14 posts about HARDWARE in one day?????  Maybe I should post techie stuff more often!!!



Tiger  

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[CFA_Admiral_Tige]

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The same can be said about current CPU prices as well. For istance an AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1400Mhz 200fsb CPU has an OEM price of $89.99 compared to an AMD Athlon XP 2500+ 333fsb with an OEM price of $81.00.

Yep it's a bit wierd but somebody must want those chips bad enough to pay that much for them just like memory dimms.    

That 1400MHz 200FSB CPU is almost imposible to find. I was considering picking one up to do a cheap upgrade to my 1000MHz machine and gave up when I was seeing eBay bids exceeding $100.00 for a used CPU! Since the motherboaed in that computer cannot take the 266FSB CPUs I gave up and built a brand new monster, P4 2.8GHz 800MHz FSB, Intel 875PBZ motherboard, two sticks of 512MB DDR400 RAM, Seagate 80GB Serial ATA hard drive, Sound Blaster Audigy LS, and a GeForce FX5200 as a temporary graphics card that will be replaced with a Raedon 9600 XT when they ship.      

To heck with Thunderbirds....An Athlon XP 1800+ is a beautiful buy for the price, espically with an ASUS/nForce motherboard.  If you want to go all out, get an Athlon 64 FX_53...they kick the snot out of the P4's

[FireSoul]

Remember, ... OT.

[Brad Bowermaster]

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That 1400MHz 200FSB CPU is almost imposible to find. I was considering picking one up to do a cheap upgrade to my 1000MHz machine and gave up when I was seeing eBay bids exceeding $100.00 for a used CPU!

Check online forums' Classified sections. I picked one up over at AMDForums for $15. Alot of processors such as Durons, Thunderbirds, and low XPs go for $15-35 on forums. Depends how much the person needs to get rid of their extra parts stash    

[JMM]

Having bought a Sony Vaio in the early days of it's release, I'm stuck with PC-800 RDRAM, anybody got some cheap vendors for me? I'd really like to max this thing out as it has been a very good P4 for two years now...  

[Pestalence]

PC2700 ram is less expensive because of marketing techniques to increase it's popularity...

reason being when PC2700 came out, It had an error in it that caused internal memory leaks, so most people went back to PC2100 or PC 2500... now Manufacturers are trying to make PC2700 popular again since the flaw has been fixed.. thus for a short time t(3 to 6 months) he cost will be low, but as more systems come out with PC2700, the price will rise again and PC 2100 will be cheaper..

 

[KBF-HangNail]

built me a comp with Tower,Speakers,19' Monitor,Keyboard Mouse,CD-rw,DVD rom  2200  512 ram which i upgraded too 1 gig and a Nividia G force 440 64 MB all for 600.00 dollars.  

[CFA_Admiral_Tige]

How Mcuh RAM Do you have?
Less then 128 MB
128 MB
129-256 MB
257-512 MB
More then 512 MB

 

[Pestalence]

I have 1 gig on my laptop....

here are my system sxpecs for my laptop

Toshiba Satellite 5205-s705

Pentium P-IV 2.4Ghz Mobile
1 Gig PC 2100 DDR Ram
750MHZ FBS Motherboard
Geforce FX go5600 w/ 64 MB DDR PC 2100 ram
Yahama AC-XG Dolby Digital 6.1 Surround, THX / SRS Certified
Harmon / Kardon Dolby Digital 6.1 speakers (2) with subwoofer (1) built in
15" Diagonal viewable 1600x1200 res monitor with Clear Advanced Super View UXGA Display
OS : Windows XP Pro Media Center Edition
TV Tuner Card
DVD / CD Burner (DVD Ram, Drive DVD -r/rw / cd -r/rw burning)
Media Center Remote Control w/ Cable Box Override interface
60 GB HDD @ 5200 RPM
Integrated 802.11b Wireless lan
I.Link (IEEE 1392) Port and SD slot
Canon BJC-85 mobile Color, Photo Capable Printer
Touchpad Mouse w/ scroll wheel
Several TV out / TV in... RCA Audio IN / OUT .. Conitor Out ports
v.92 56K modem
10/100 Ethernet lan card integrated..
3 HR battery pack

the nice thing about this machine is that the picture is clearer than any monitor or TV on the market today.. you can see this model's predicessor at Comp USA for sale @ $1400... the predicessor to this machine is the Satellite 5205-s119.. the difference is the OS (XP Home), TV Tuner (not installed), Remote Package (Media Center Components so not included with OS), slower CPU (2.0 GHZ)

the rest of the machine is the same.. however, they only come with 512 MB PC 2100 DDR Ram.. I upgraded mine to 1 GIg...

It works flawlessly with all games with exception to Edios games.. they do not support Laptop Keyboards, and as such, their games don't work correctly... but no problems with SFC (I, II: EAW, II: OP, III: TNG), Freespace, RTCW-GOTY, Max Payne 1 & 2, Siberia, NWN with both expansions, Armada 1 @ 2, Klingon Honor Guard, EF 1 and II, The Hulk, Spiderman, Wolverine's Revenge, FA-18, Tron 2.0, Mistmare, Splinter Cell, and many Many Console emmulator ROMs...

this is my primary system since i am on the road a lot.. I paid $2550 (Tax inclusive) for it the day it went on the market (shelf cost was $2850 + Tax but got business discount at Comp USA).