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onetimeonlyposter
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 9:32 am    Post subject: Question about RAM prices Reply with quote
I'm looking for DDR SDRAM Non-ECC at PC2100 or above in 512mb sticks.
As a student, I have a limited budget, and I've tried looking up ebay,
newegg, fry's, and everywhere else, but I can't seem to find a stick
anywhere below $30 that passes memtest86+. Any websites that have cheap and
reliable RAM?
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Plato
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 10:47 am    Post subject: Re: Question about RAM prices Reply with quote
ddcc wrote:
Quote:

I'm looking for DDR SDRAM Non-ECC at PC2100 or above in 512mb sticks.
As a student, I have a limited budget, and I've tried looking up ebay,
newegg, fry's, and everywhere else, but I can't seem to find a stick
anywhere below $30 that passes memtest86+. Any websites that have cheap and
reliable RAM?

How much/year does your college cost you?

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Joel
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:57 pm    Post subject: Re: Question about RAM prices Reply with quote
"ddcc" <none@none.com> wrote:

Quote:
I'm looking for DDR SDRAM Non-ECC at PC2100 or above in 512mb sticks.
As a student, I have a limited budget, and I've tried looking up ebay,
newegg, fry's, and everywhere else, but I can't seem to find a stick
anywhere below $30 that passes memtest86+. Any websites that have cheap and
reliable RAM?

Educational = you can always learn to use Google to find the prices

Budget = comparing different prices from different stores and go for
whatever please you.

Here are few to get you started.

1. When you use my site www.google.com it will give you a long list of
others

2. My google may give you site like www.nextag.com www.pricewatch.com and
tons of others

3. And the above will display dozen(s) others
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Darren M.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 2:01 pm    Post subject: Re: Question about RAM prices Reply with quote
ddcc wrote:
Quote:
I'm looking for DDR SDRAM Non-ECC at PC2100 or above in 512mb sticks.
As a student, I have a limited budget, and I've tried looking up ebay,
newegg, fry's, and everywhere else, but I can't seem to find a stick
anywhere below $30 that passes memtest86+. Any websites that have cheap and
reliable RAM?



Spend $40 or so and you'll have quality RAM.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/37yag7
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145053
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kony
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PostPosted: Wed May 02, 2007 1:13 am    Post subject: Re: Question about RAM prices Reply with quote
On Tue, 1 May 2007 16:15:25 -0700, "ddcc" <none@none.com>
wrote:

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Exactly what is bad about the motherboard? I have flashed the BIOS to the
latest version if that's what you mean.


Overall low quality construction, penny pinching by ECS may
include inferior onboard power subcircuits, capacitors, few
and buggy bios, even substituting jumper wires where anyone
else would use fuses. I've had several of the non-"Pro"
version die, they were so bad they couldn't even use two
PC133 memory modules in the first revision (which was made
worst by the fact that many people bought them specifically
so they could reuse their PC133 memory before they were
ready to move on to DDR(1).

At the very least I hope you have inspected the capacitors,
they may be failing already.
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onetimeonlyposter
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PostPosted: Wed May 02, 2007 1:13 am    Post subject: Re: Question about RAM prices Reply with quote
Exactly what is bad about the motherboard? I have flashed the BIOS to the
latest version if that's what you mean.
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onetimeonlyposter
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PostPosted: Thu May 03, 2007 12:58 am    Post subject: Re: Question about RAM prices Reply with quote
Thanks for the info. I've checked and no, there's no
swelling/bulging/exploded capacitors. In fact, the only odd thing I've
noticed is that memtest86+ reports a couple of errors around 216mb on my
stick of 512mb Mushkin PC2100.
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