DEAD: 1 Gig(4x256) PC2700 for $130 shipped from Dell SB and other memory deals (25% off)

[Yo2]

Yup Dell SB has 25% off on memory and other selected parts. A cool gig (4x256MB) of PC2700 will be about $130 shipped and taxed.

Yo

Edit: DEAD now - was valid only through Sunday 3-2-03

 

[grifterspawn]

Mmmmmm.....1 gig of pc2700 goodness.....(sound like swallowing tongue and gurgling)

 

[Tot]

Cool deal.

But with 9% tax for me its not that sweet.

Waiting for it to far more. Yeah more falling.

 

[MichaelD]

Link?

 

[RossMAN]

A link is usually nice, is this the RAM you were posting about?

$40.95 original price
-$10.24 (25% on Dell Peripherals)
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$30.71 x 4 = $122.84 + shipping + tax = ???

Or course Oregon has 0% sales tax

 

[Kevin]

I don't know, 4 sticks is kind of a lot. Most motherboards have 2 or 3 slots...

 

[MichaelD]

Is this Micron memory? If so, this is a very good deal. $30 for a 256mb stick of PC2700 is excellent, especially if it's Micron!

I'm assuming this is "the good memory" that will work in any system?

 

[MichaelD]

I searched the part number off Dell's page, Crucial's database. It came up with nothing. Then I searched on memory for a Dell Dimension 4550 (533FSB) and the part numbers are different. That makes me leery.

 

[roncarter]

Do I really need 1 gig?? hahahha

 

[MichaelD]

TTT

 

[Grummit]

Dell mainly uses Samsung memory (as far as I know).

 

[SharkyTM]

if you are overclocking, the more sticks you have, the lower your FSB potential is... flame away, but i know it, and a lot of others do too... maxxing your board out with lower capacity sticks is NOT a good idea unless you dont wanna OC. Getting 2x512MB sticks is a little better, but if you want 512MB, the best way to do it is with 1x512MB stick, not 2x256MB sticks... For all you DC-DDR people, get 2x256 or 2x 512, not 4x128 or 4x256... you'll take a performance hit.

good deal though.

Shark

 

[Yo2]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
A link is usually nice, is this the RAM you were posting about?

$40.95 original price
-$10.24 (25% on Dell Peripherals)
===================================
$30.71 x 4 = $122.84 + shipping + tax = ???

Or course Oregon has 0% sales tax

Thanks for the link

 

[Yo2]

Originally posted by: SharkyTM
if you are overclocking, the more sticks you have, the lower your FSB potential is... flame away, but i know it, and a lot of others do too... maxxing your board out with lower capacity sticks is NOT a good idea unless you dont wanna OC. Getting 2x512MB sticks is a little better, but if you want 512MB, the best way to do it is with 1x512MB stick, not 2x256MB sticks... For all you DC-DDR people, get 2x256 or 2x 512, not 4x128 or 4x256... you'll take a performance hit.

good deal though.

Shark

While I did not have the overclocker in mind when i posted this, I agree with your point, though you do not necessarily need 1GB, this would make for a nice 512MB dual channel set-up. However I do not know the o/c potential of these sticks, but they should be good, since I have never seen a Dell system with bad memory (usually micron or samsung and low cas ratings too).

Yo

 

[akahai]

I ordered two sticks couple weeks ago.....not sure if it's Crucial....doesn't have Crucial sticker on it.....but it has Micron chip......

 

[tydas]

1 gig of two 512 mb for $145 shipped, of course that is using the one time use stackable 15% coupon...Wish I knew the type of memory then I might pull the trigger. than again the same memory at crucial is only $170 shipped. Small premium for crucial memory and service IMO...Dell takes forever to ship popular items like this might be...

 

[LuNoTiCK]

Originally posted by: SharkyTM
if you are overclocking, the more sticks you have, the lower your FSB potential is... flame away, but i know it, and a lot of others do too... maxxing your board out with lower capacity sticks is NOT a good idea unless you dont wanna OC. Getting 2x512MB sticks is a little better, but if you want 512MB, the best way to do it is with 1x512MB stick, not 2x256MB sticks... For all you DC-DDR people, get 2x256 or 2x 512, not 4x128 or 4x256... you'll take a performance hit.

good deal though.

Shark

I agree with that.

 

[helpme]

Damn, I thought that ment 1GB Stick for 130$! Damn K7 MPX can't take more than 2 unbuffered dimms..

 

[Yo2]

Originally posted by: helpme
Damn, I thought that ment 1GB Stick for 130$! Damn K7 MPX can't take more than 2 unbuffered dimms..

Sorry I am noticing that in fact most boards either have only two dimms or that in order to use more than two one needs registered ram. I therefore edited the title

 

[DestruyaUR]

These do seem to be Micron Technology chips (a.k.a. Crucial). If you read really close-in on the example photo, you can see the "mT" badge on the chips.

 

[MichaelD]

I agree with the overclocking hit post. I thought that was common knowledge, no?

Even though they are "only" 256mb sticks, they are still PC2700. Even a single 256mb stick isn't too bad for a gaming rig. I am building a file server (133FSB aka PC2100 ) and I'd like to fill all four slots...this sounds like a cheap way to do it.

One problem. Somebody said "yeah, it uses Micron chips." If so, why doesn't the part number show up on Crucial's site?

 

[Auxano]

It looks like Dell raised the price :Q before they put it "on sale" of the 512 Stick at least.

 

[pxc]

Dell uses/sells Samsung-branded PC2700 memory ("Samsung Original PC2700"). It's good quality stuff. I moved one of those sticks to my SiS645DX boards and it ran at DDR400 with no memory sinks and no voltage bump was necessary. I also ran 2 of the 256MB sticks I bought from Dell at CL1.5 with agressive timings on my first 4550 system (tweaked using WPCREDIT and the Intel845.PCR data file). Don't take the picture shown too literally, it's just an example. The labels on the memory don't look like the picture shown.

Edit: if you got one of the 15% off codes from dell for signing up for the small business email notifications, you can get the 256MB PC2700 DIMMs for $26.11 each + tax and shipping. 4 with shipping and tax comes to $118.54 for me.

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: pxc
Dell uses/sells Samsung-branded PC2700 memory ("Samsung Original PC2700"). It's good quality stuff. I moved one of those sticks to my SiS645DX boards and it ran at DDR400 with no memory sinks and no voltage bump was necessary. I also ran 2 of the 256MB sticks I bought from Dell at CL1.5 with agressive timings on my first 4550 system (tweaked using WPCREDIT and the Intel845.PCR data file). Don't take the picture shown too literally, it's just an example. The labels on the memory don't look like the picture shown.

Edit: if you got one of the 15% off codes from dell for signing up for the small business email notifications, you can get the 256MB PC2700 DIMMs for $26.11 each + tax and shipping. 4 with shipping and tax comes to $118.54 for me.

Dayum.:Q Need to check this out now....

 

[Yo2]

Originally posted by: DestruyaUR
These do seem to be Micron Technology chips (a.k.a. Crucial). If you read really close-in on the example photo, you can see the "mT" badge on the chips.

Got my first batch today - the 256 mb stcks are micron doublesided cl 2.5 chips that are dell branded. It does not say crucial anywhere and I don't think the part number will match - however they shipped from Boise, ID (and whose HQ is there ? )

Yo