Memory craziness -- 1G PC-133 SDRAM for $60 at Fry's

You'll have to pay more for long warranty / brand name / CAS-2 / ECC / Registered / DDR / Rambus.

Some of the DIMMs have no visible name on the chips. Another one says "NTC" and "Made in Singapore", so I suspect it was made by Chartered (the big Singapore foundry with no work (like 20% utilization right now IIRC)). You have to have a good fab to make modern DRAM's, so they aren't being made in China, Malaysia, etc.

Heck, even brand name (e.g. Micron) memory is cheap, just not that cheap. But as long as it works fine I'm OK -- if I was building a superfast system, I'd wait and get an Athlon XP and use DDR memory.

Tony

Post #15,517 by tonytib 10/28/01 9:22:49 PM Reply	Memory craziness -- 1G PC-133 SDRAM for $60 at Fry's Just think a couple weeks ago I paid a whopping $80 for 1 G (2 512MB DIMMs). So far the memory is working fine. Tony Who thinks the only industry stupider than the hard drive biz is the DRAM biz
Post #15,521 by a6l6e6x 10/28/01 10:58:15 PM Reply	Really impress me, if they are also ECC. :) Alex Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
Post #15,529 by tonytib 10/29/01 1:02:53 AM Reply	Nope, not CAS-2 either You'll have to pay more for long warranty / brand name / CAS-2 / ECC / Registered / DDR / Rambus. Some of the DIMMs have no visible name on the chips. Another one says "NTC" and "Made in Singapore", so I suspect it was made by Chartered (the big Singapore foundry with no work (like 20% utilization right now IIRC)). You have to have a good fab to make modern DRAM's, so they aren't being made in China, Malaysia, etc. Heck, even brand name (e.g. Micron) memory is cheap, just not that cheap. But as long as it works fine I'm OK -- if I was building a superfast system, I'd wait and get an Athlon XP and use DDR memory. Tony

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