Replies to post #10749 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[jhalada]

wbmw,

you think the memory industry will skip 512Mb technology, just because you haven't heard of it? I think not.

Well, they did not skip 128Mb, but the odd powers of 2 are less popular.

By the way, the "1GB" DIMMs on Pricewatch are actually kits of two 512MB DIMMs.

Isn't that exactly what I just posted? 2 DIMMs, each with 16 256Mbit chips = 1 GB.

Joe

[Haddock]

By the way, the "1GB" DIMMs on Pricewatch are actually kits of two 512MB DIMMs.

I never noticed this before. How silly!

You'll be hard pressed to find actual, inexpensive 1GB DIMMs anywhere. I managed to find some for $799 at Kingston.com, but it was only DDR333 ($526 for DDR266).

That's rather expensive. Even with the Euro at around $1.15 these are much cheaper at €269:
http://www4.alternate.de/html/nodes_info/iaidu1.html

There are no 1GB DDR400 DIMMs.

So it would appear. I'm sure they are on their way, though with Intel pushing the DDR400 adoption so hard.

[Dan3]

Re: the "1GB" DIMMs on Pricewatch are actually kits of two 512MB DIMMs

That's completely wrong.

There's a whole page of 1GB PC2700 that's under $150 (and 6 more pages of 1GB PC2700 DIMMs) and only one entry on the first page is a "kit."

Have you confused desktop memory with ECC server memory? Or did you confuse 1GB DIMMs with 2GB DIMMs?

It's less than $600 bucks to put 4 1GB sticks of PC2700 DDR Ram in your PC - today.

And that's after a recent substantial increase in memory prices, they were a lot lower a couple of weeks ago, and will certainly be much, much, lower next year. You could have done it for around $400 a few weeks ago.