Corsair CMX512-3500C2

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I'm still waiting for my two sticks,but...

Has anyone else noticed a dramatic increase in price since yesterday.Of
the several sites I frequent the price has jumped on avg 20 bucks per
stick.
I don't see this jump with other mem types,even PC3700.Anyone know
what's up?
 
There was a warning of this on sites about 3 weeks ago.
I forget the cause, a shortage I think.
 
Has anyone else noticed a dramatic increase in price since yesterday.Of
the several sites I frequent the price has jumped on avg 20 bucks per
stick.
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RAM prices seem to follow a cyclical pattern and have been increasing
slowly but surely across the board. In 2-4 months prices will start falling
again. It was less than a year ago that 256MB of quality PC2700 was in the
$70 range.

$20 increase per stick for the 3500 does seem a bit extreme though.
 
Captzee said:
I'm still waiting for my two sticks,but...

Has anyone else noticed a dramatic increase in price since yesterday.Of
the several sites I frequent the price has jumped on avg 20 bucks per
stick.
I don't see this jump with other mem types,even PC3700.Anyone know
what's up?
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I bought two sticks of this stuff from GoogleGear.com June 9th for $134.50 each. Now they have them for $172.00! So in a little
less than a month a $37.50 increase. RAM does fluctuate, I've even seen video cards, motherboards, and other system components go
up in price due to popularity. I think the rush to the 875/865 chipset has drove up the prices.

Steve
 
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Has anyone else noticed a dramatic increase in price since yesterday.Of
the several sites I frequent the price has jumped on avg 20 bucks per
stick.
Click to expand...

RAM prices seem to follow a cyclical pattern and have been increasing
slowly but surely across the board. In 2-4 months prices will start falling
again. It was less than a year ago that 256MB of quality PC2700 was in the
$70 range.

$20 increase per stick for the 3500 does seem a bit extreme though.
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I got lucky, i just bought some 3500 CORSAIR 256mb for $74 a
few weeks ago...............
 
The reason the Corsair XMS PC3500C2 chips price jumped is because the Ram
Guy at Corsair Tech Support said on the Corsair Forum that the Corsair
PC3500C2 were going to be discontinued and replaced with the PC3700. The
Corsair PC3500 are the best you can buy for overclocking. I have a pair of
the 512 MB for a total of 1 GB and know what they can do. I read the PC3700
are not doing to good when overclocked and this created a big demand for the
PC3500.

Dan Spears
Atlanta, GA.
 
Thanks Dan.
I knew something was going with the PC3500 specifically. I heard a little
blurp about it some days back but it didn't jog my mem until your
reply.Guess I better try and scarf up what I can.Still have two more
P4C800-E's to build.
 
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RAM prices seem to follow a cyclical pattern and have been increasing
slowly but surely across the board. In 2-4 months prices will start
falling again. It was less than a year ago that 256MB of quality PC2700
was in the $70 range.

$20 increase per stick for the 3500 does seem a bit extreme though.
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I built a network back in the early 90's and each of the 7 machines had
64 megs of Ram and the price was about $30.00 per meg, Ouch!
 
I built a network back in the early 90's and each of the 7 machines had
64 megs of Ram and the price was about $30.00 per meg, Ouch!

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Asus A7N8X deluxe rev. 2.0
AMD XP 3200+, 400fsb
Corsair 512 meg x 2, XMS PC 3500
Radeon 9800 Pro, 256 DDR
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Damn,me thinks you might be about my age,well,probably not if you're talkin
'90's.
I still remember when local machines had no HD's and 5 1/4 low density was
state of the art and cost
$5500 bucks.I still have a jpeg of a Tandy advertisement to back that
up.Maybe some of you would like to have that for old time sake.....
 
captzee1 said:
Damn,me thinks you might be about my age,well,probably not if you're talkin
'90's.
I still remember when local machines had no HD's and 5 1/4 low density was
state of the art and cost
$5500 bucks.I still have a jpeg of a Tandy advertisement to back that
up.Maybe some of you would like to have that for old time sake.....
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Yep, my first hard drive - for my Amiga 500 - cost me $700+ for a whopping 10 megs. We're talking TEN whole megs! Who, I mean who,
could EVER need more than that? I started this business back in early '83 with a C64 - no monitor (used the TV), no tape or floppy
drive, just the 'puter. Opened the wonderful Commodore book, and started typing in programs, then turned it off, and repeat the
next day. Oh, those were the days.

Steve
 
Hi! All!,

Yes I can confirm here "downunder" there has been a price change.

AU$289 to AU$329 ooooo! nasty! per stick!

Ben.
 
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