512MB PC2700 @ MWAVE Dropped to 52.80

[bismarck]

Has anyone checked pricewatch??

512 DDR PC2700 is 51.00 with free shipping from BZboys. Haven't checke their resellerrating yet.
so no crappin.

This price has fell 2.00 today alone.

I say "Keep Watching"

 

[EXman]

BZBoys stink you cannot return crap to them Mwave has a much better rep.

 

[HKSturboKID]

Com'on guys, how often do ram goes bad after you put it in and it work. I have Ram for my p2 and it still works. So if u buy the pc2700 from mwave, the minute u put it in and it don't work, return it and get the right one. Once its in, it'll stay there for life.

 

[Hazer]

MWave has always been my favorite place to get stuff. Some prices are a little higher than other shops, and some prices are a little lower. When Im upgrading, I ussually do the whole 'puter, so MWave has been a great place to get multiple items and reduce shipping costs. Delivery has always been a plus.

BUT!

WHen buying from them, I highly recommend getting name-brand for critical components such as memory and power supplies. My last comp (2 years ago, been unemployed and not able to upgrade since ) I ordered 2 sticks of 256MB PC133 DRAM Generic. Great price. I configured everything and off I went. I had an ASUS VIA4in1 mobo with a quantum SQ 2500 AUreal soundcard and had many problems issuing frmo that, so I never really noticed the signs of a bad memory address on one of the chips. A year later, I removed the sound card and noticed that I kept getting some bad files while downloading. I saw a post saying that the cause could be bad memory and downloaded a free memory adress checker. Sure enough, of the the sticks had a bad bit. And all it takes is one bad bit.

This stick could have been bad since the first day I got it. I was too busy trying to get an unsupported soundcard to work with VIA4in1, I may have never noticed that some of the cause was due to the stick.

In conclusion, MWave is a good shop, but some of the generic stuff is not worth buying. I should have paid the extra $20 to get Kingston or Crucial.


PS: AUreal SQ2500 Quad is STILL the best sound card Ive ever heard. SB bought out AUreal, but STILL hasn't used the hardware in their soundcards. Such a shame too.

 

[UNCjigga]

I just bought a stick for the rig I'm putting together for my dad...figure I can run this at PC2100 at 2-2-2-6 and not have problems right?

EDIT: I got the memory and sho nuff its VData, and ITS UTTER GARBAGE!!! I put this in my K7S5A, which is PC2100. Now, with my two sticks of Crucial PC2100, I could overclock the FSB to 150/150 with no problems (running at 6-2.5-2-2) or I could run 5-2-2-2 at default speed of 133/133. Now I put this 'supposed' stick of PC2700 from Mwave in (taking out the two Crucial sticks of course.) Lo and behold, can't overclock the FSB beyond 138/138, and the memory is stuck at 6-3-3-3 and Sandra says memory controller is doing 1-way interleave (always said 4-way before!!!) A big WTF??? Sure my board might be finnicky cuz its an ECS but still, I learned my lesson with regards to memory...

 

[WileCoyote]

went ahead and ordered 2 x 256 2700

 

[TAL0N]

Originally posted by: Schro
The spot market is starting to creep up a few percent, I fully anticpate a "shortage" that will send prices back to twice of what they are now in the very near future. The mwave price is very good, I expect it to go up $5 though, as other DDR333 parts have risen that much in the last two days.

No idea where you read that, but according to this article at digitimes:

"According to DRAMeXchange, late February contract prices for 256Mbit DDR dropped to between US$3.65 and US$4.25, down about 19% from earlier in the month. Contract prices for 128Mbit DDR also plunged about 17-22% to between US$1.75 and US$2.25."
..
"The Chinese-language Commercial Times cited DRAMeXchange as forecasting that early March DDR contract prices were likely to fall another 10-15% in the direction of spot prices due to a continued slump in demand."

Which sounds to me like we can expect DDR retail prices to continue to fall over the next few weeks at least.

 

[Adul]

damn i need to jump on tyhis now

 

[WileCoyote]

just got the ram today (damn snow storm) and it's Vdata ... any good? it'll be a few hours until im done building the system and i can test its overclock ability

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: WileCoyote
just got the ram today (damn snow storm) and it's Vdata ... any good? it'll be a few hours until im done building the system and i can test its overclock ability

keep us updated and gl on the build