That ram should be gold plated
I almost dropped to the floor in amazement today.
I was giving computer assistance.
Then I sent a guy out to get some more ram.
It was an under equipped Duron 600Mhz.
It only had 64Mb, and it was a machine used primarily for Photoshop.
I said, buy a 256Mb block, that isn't very expensive and should give a nice boost in speed.
OMG I almost dropped to the ground when I learned the price.
It would not have hurt very much, I was sitting down.
1 pc. of Kingston Valueram PC133 price: €68.
I was stunned. That is very expensive for a stick of obsolete ram.
The case is that there are four shops in town, they are all very expensive. Guess they want to make money on selling computer equipment.
This is why I never buy anything locally.
The cheapest price would be around €40 if you shop online.
I was giving computer assistance.
Then I sent a guy out to get some more ram.
It was an under equipped Duron 600Mhz.
It only had 64Mb, and it was a machine used primarily for Photoshop.
I said, buy a 256Mb block, that isn't very expensive and should give a nice boost in speed.
OMG I almost dropped to the ground when I learned the price.
It would not have hurt very much, I was sitting down.
1 pc. of Kingston Valueram PC133 price: €68.
I was stunned. That is very expensive for a stick of obsolete ram.
The case is that there are four shops in town, they are all very expensive. Guess they want to make money on selling computer equipment.
This is why I never buy anything locally.
The cheapest price would be around €40 if you shop online.
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bothered.
I guess that there are not much PC133 ram being made now.
The demand is still there though, therefore the price increases.
It's very annoying.
The exceptionally high local price is due to lack of competition.
The shops in this town has always been very expensive.
Obsolete RAM is expensive because it's in VERY high demand, but companies tend to slow production down so they can ramp up production of the newer stuff. A year ago, I looked into upgrading the ram on an AST P-133 machine at work from 32MB to 128MB. The machine used Fast Page Mode SIMMs. 32MB was like $150.
I remember I was going mad looking at supply and demand curves.
It isn't all that exciting.
A reseller close to where I live selles EDO ram 64 Mb at $35 a stick.
Ding Ding, you get to pass go and collect your $200 There are still bundles of computers using pc133 ram, and since there really isnt a big demand for it anymore, the modules that are left can be sold way over price and still be bought.
I still suspect the local retailers to have some sort of agreement.
There is absolutely no competition.
It was right before the prices went through the roof.
I think it was in 2001.
The price tag was a comfortable $39.
Very cheap indeed.
Less than a week after my puchase the prices went up, up, up.......
It said Kingston Value Ram PC133.
I doubt it was registered ECC ram, if it was, the price would have been much higher.
I have just checked the shops homepage.
it doesn't say anything about registered ECC.
It is quite peculiar that the fastest DDR ram they stock is PC2700.
It is a tad slow ain't it?
They also sell some branded harddrives i suspect them to be some sort of noname drives.
A 120 GB "branded" drive costs $140.
Expensive for a "noname" drive.
Apart from that they only sell Asus motherboards and intel processors.
Odd selectiion.
And nothing for me as I happen to dislike asus motherboard and intel processors.
Well the savings were passed along in the end.
-drasnor