[techtalk] Rising RAM prices (was: Would like advice on building system)

[J B]

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I've heard theories saying that everyone is upgrading their old PCs to get 
ready for y2k, and of course, they're upgrading to the most modern stuff, 
K6-2, P2 and P3 processors, which require PC100 ram, so if the people are 
willing to pay twice what the ram normally costs, why not raise the 
prices...
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The sad thing is that ALL ram is now built to PC100 specs...when they test 
it, if it is not OVERSPEC they bump it down to SDRAM.  What I am saying here 
is that you can occasionally (actually more often than not) get away with 
using non PC100 RAM at a 100MHz system speed.  Just make sure that you get a 
good name brand (Kingston, Crucial, etc).  I have several friends using 
66MHz SDRAM on high end machines.  One friend has 512MB of SDRAM running on 
a PIII/600 system....no ill effects seen, it is EXTREMELY fast.

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