well ram prices have been going up for the last two months...about two
months ago, you could have a gotten a stick of 128 MB PC100 ram for about
$120, now it's about $250 at some of the cheaper places, unless you can find
it on sale at some place like pricewatch, and then it's usually one per
customer...as for why it's going up, the prices were rising before the
taiwan earthquake (not to mention, I believe the US gets more motherboards
from Taiwan than memory, so why haven't I seen a significant rise in the
motherboard prices along with the memory?), I've heard theories saying that
everyone is upgrading their old PCs to get ready for y2k, and of course,
they're upgrading to the most modern stuff, K6-2, P2 and P3 processors,
which require PC100 ram, so if the people are willing to pay twice what the
ram normally costs, why not raise the prices...
that's just what I've heard from friends that work in the hardware business,
most of which have had their hours cut because people aren't buying PCs like
they were 2 or 3 months ago, simply because of the rise in ram prices....
Brian Engle
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> Subject: RE: [techtalk] Would like advice on building system
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> I heard that memory prices were going up in the US because
> companies were
> saying that the earthquake in Taiwan cut the supply-- the
> problem with that
> excuse is that Taiwan only supplies the US with 10% of the chips......
>
> -Jen
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> > Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 11:25 PM
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> > Subject: Re: [techtalk] Would like advice on building system
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> >
> > Cathy James wrote:
> >
> > > Also, what prices can I expected for inexpensive
> Ethernet cards?
> > > I'd like to eventually network this machine with my husband's,
> > and configure
> > > the 486 I'm replacing to server as an Internet firewall/server.
> >
> > Seems that you don't need FastEthernet, so you can stick to
> something like
> > Compex RL-2000 card which should be below $20 (at least here in
> > Russia). Maybe
> > you can find good old 3Com 3c509 card. 3c900 (it's PCI)
> shouldn't be too
> > expensive now, or you can buy 3c905 if you are planning to move
> > to 100 MB/s
> > later.
> >
> > If you want to connect only 2 machines, you even don't need a hub
> > - you can use
> > cross twisted cable.
> >
> > > Is it realistic to expect to build a nice system for
> > $1200 or so?
> >
> > If you don't need to buy a new monitor, $1200 should be
> quite enouth.
> >
> > > I'm not thrilled at what has happened to memory prices
> > recently, but what
> > > can you do...
> >
> > Well, prices are going down every day - 64 Mb PC-100 DIMM costed
> > about $150 two
> > weeks ago, now it's below $120. So maybe it's better to wait for
> > a month or so
> > or buy 64 Mb first and another 64 or 128 Mb later.
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