RAM Prices...Painful!!!

[roboninja]

<< I bought 1 DIMM of 512MB PC2100 DDR RAM from Crucial two weeks ago for $153 shipped. That includes the 15% Anandtech discount. >>



Yeah, that is exactly what I did. Got charged tax too (in Maryland) :-/

 

[Daniel]

I got a 4 meg stick for my 486sx to bring it up to 8, great deal at $200, 8 megs of ram and windows was screaming.

 

[TheOmegaCode]

I know what you mean, I was going to buy a new machine, one that was going to be cheap, but quick! Now I cant do jack. I dont have $70-$160 to pay for RAM...
What really gets me are people who say its not expensive, its just back to what it should be... Now I know that comodities fluctuate in price, but anytime there is a 200% increase, thats outrageous... especially when you have no money! I kinda wished that the prices wouldn't have dropped as low as they had, maybee stayed around $40 for 256MB, maybee then they wouldn't be as high as they are now...

 

[mdennison]

November 2001 got 256mb crucial ddr 2100 for $27 shipped

March 2001 got 128mb pc133 cas2 regular sdram $65 shipped

I believe, around March 2000 paid $60 for 64mb pc133 cas2 ....

 

[TheShiz]

wah, = (.

Tim

 

[KamakaziRcr]

With all these replies about be glad that it wasn't x years ago when x MB of EDO/SDRAM was $200, should I remind you that windows 3.1 ran fine at idle with 4MB, Windows 95 with 8MB, Windows 98 with 32MB, crappy-@$$ Windows Me with 64, Windows 2000 with 128, and Windows XP with 256. Catch my drift?

 

[Russ]

<< and the Intel se440bx won't use the 256 sticks. >>



777joee,

The BX chipset works just fine with 256MB sticks. Unless, of course, you happen to have an Abit board. Then it's a crapshoot.

Russ, NCNE

 

[ROcHE]

I still have some 256 KB sticks somewhere :Q

 

[Beau]

<< You guys crack me up. From a historical perspective, they're still giving it away. Russ, NCNE >>



Agreed. I got into the OEM market back when RAM was $2/mb. Even then, it would be considered inexpensive historically. True, ram is the higest-markedup piece in a computer, considering that you could get 64 mb SDRAM on a VGA card, plus the GPU, and DVI for less than a 256mb stick of DDR. Seriously, what do you think is a more complex component? The GPU or the RAM? Obviously you are paying for the GPU in that case.

 

[Red Dawn]

Hmmm glad I was able to get 4 of those 256 meg Micron Sticks from Dell for $16.00 each. Maybe it's time to turn Ferengi and head for the For Sale Forum!!!

 

[FreakyOCR]

I remember I had to special order a 512MB PC133 stick from Asia becuase there were NONE in North America. Only cost $800 :Q

 

[bigbootydaddy]

i like my ram cheap and try not to live in the past.

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