| From: | g'o'tz ohnesorge |
| Date: | 29 Oct 2000 at 23:53:06 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIGEN: Pricewatch? (Floid's Pricewatch tips) |
"Joseph J. Kanowitz" wrote:
This man has a clue .. though:
> -Just a few tips; I hate to see people waste money when it's not necessary
> (seen too many home-builders drop a cheap, flaky mainboard into an
> expensive case, or spend 3x as much on memory to get a brand name on it)
> -Joe "Floid" Kanowitz
Few weeks ago c't (www.heise.de/ct , still not publishing in English except the
occasional few articles) ran a test of many of the SDRAM sticks available, with
rather horrible results concerning especially (im)properly configured SPD-EEPROMs
or whatever .. the thingy used to tell most mainboards other than AMD Athlon
family what speeds the RAM can do. All of a sudden, "brand name" stuff became
popular where the week before you'd just find a price and the dealer not even
knowing the actual maker and the DIMMs' CAS latencies etc. . Whoops.
As what concerns the issue, I bought my most recent RAMs from my local dealer,
and found the stuff to be even cheaper than the 'net and magazine mail order
listings. And I have a human interface, read: an ass to kick within the distance
of an extended leg, should complaint be warranted (wasn't - and I even ran a
checker). Those peeps in the shop 'round the corner are not the worst to know.