cheap DDR systems

[Robert G. Brown]

On Wed, 30 May 2001, Sean Dilda wrote:

> On Wed, 30 May 2001, Velocet wrote:
>
> > And, according to the confusing website at www.crucial.com they supposedly
> > have DDR ram for very cheap, like 256Mb DDR PC2100 for $65 US (but I cant
> > confirm this - what's a 'memory upgrade', do I buy something from them
> > then upgrade it?).
>
> 'memory upgrade' is marketing playing tricks on you.  Its just a
> standard stick of RAM.  I assume the use the word 'upgrade' as they
> think you'll only be using it to upgrade existing systems.

Now if they would just start dropping the prices of the 512 MB DDR in a
similar way, life would be good.  Very good, actually.  It's too late
for my last cluster upgrade, but it is just right on time for the next
two...

   rgb

-- 
Robert G. Brown	                       http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/
Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305
Durham, N.C. 27708-0305
Phone: 1-919-660-2567  Fax: 919-660-2525     email:rgb at phy.duke.edu