cheap DDR systems

Velocet math at velocet.ca
Wed May 30 12:20:15 PDT 2001


On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:23:30AM -0500, Bari Ari's all...
> Sean Dilda wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 30 May 2001, Velocet wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >> And, according to the confusing website at www.crucial.com they supposedly
> >> have DDR ram for very cheap, like 256Mb DDR PC2100 for $65 US (but I cant
> >> confirm this - what's a 'memory upgrade', do I buy something from them
> >> then upgrade it?).
> > 
> > 
> > 'memory upgrade' is marketing playing tricks on you.  Its just a
> > standard stick of RAM.  I assume the use the word 'upgrade' as they
> > think you'll only be using it to upgrade existing systems.
> 
> Take a look at http://www.pricewatch.com/
> 
> There are at least a dozen vendors with 256MB DDR PC2100 for under $70 
> US and 256MB DDR PC2400 for  $107 - $ 130.

This says $65 USD. $65 << $107.

Here's the direct paste from the page

184-pin DIMM
256MB  DDR PC2100 CL=2.5   Non-parity  CT3264Z265 $72.99 $65.69 $7.30 Yes

(the last prices are "web price" and "you save").

Here's the URL. Seems bogus to me to be that far under market.

http://www.crucial.com/store/PartSpecs.asp?imodule=CT3264Z265

Thats $USD. This converts to ~$102 CDN which might have confused people
when I was talking about system prices. Lets stick to $USD for now.

$65.69.

/kc




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