Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 20:25:54 02/19/03
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On February 19, 2003 at 00:39:57, Matt Taylor wrote: >On February 18, 2003 at 17:35:00, Charles Worthington wrote: > >>The Memory in question Matt is the new DDR266 SDRAM. Prices at Dell.com are >>cuurently in the $4,000.00 neighborhood for 4GB (1GB DIMMS). I thought it was >>way expensive as well but far preferable in performance to the RDRAM I have in >>my current Dell Machine. It is PC800 and is not the best of performers. > >Please explain. New? "DDR266" is the same thing as pc2100, the same thing as the >ram I bought 10 months ago for $330. Four would cost $1,320, not $4,000. > >I am sure the pc800 ram would blow pc2100 DDR SDRAM away in some things. Maybe >not chess, but in other things... Dell (and most/all other major OEM vendors) absolutely gouge people on the price of memory. $4000 for 4GB of RAM may seem incredibly high (and it is, really, when you can buy it yourself for ~1/3 the price), but I've seen some far worse prices on memory in the past.
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