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Weekly Memory & Motherboard Price Guide: November 2001 1st Edition
by Anand Lal Shimpi on November 9, 2001 2:58 AM EST- Posted in
- Guides
Introduction
The saga continues as we bring you the next installment of AnandTech's Weekly Memory & Motherboard Price Guide. For those of you not familiar with the guides here is a brief overview on how we construct them:
We select vendors to appear in our Price Guides based on two requirements: solid consumer feedback and having the lowest possible pricing. You'll notice that these vendors aren't paying us to be listed here; we do not accept requests to be listed here. We have tried to eliminate vendors with low feedback rating, but we do encourage you to do your own research before purchasing from any of these vendors.
With the new and improved Price Guides we have not only increased our standards when evaluating online vendors, but we have also partnered up with our friends at CNet to offer yet another service to you all. Using CNet's Shopper.com search engine we can provide you with an additional pool of vendors to search from that are checked up on by CNet. You can wade through those results by clicking on the CNet Pricing link in the second to last column on the right.
If there are any problems with the guide or a vendor's pricing changes dramatically then be sure to email the author listed at the top of the page and we'll take appropriate action. Remember that although some vendors may be cheaper, we only list those with generally positive feedback from a decent number of consumers. As usual, if you have any questions, comments or suggestions feel free to email us or post in the AnandTech Forums.
Also be sure to check out AnandTech's Hot Deals Forum for even more great memory, motherboard and other technology buys.
Disclaimer
AnandTech does not endorse any vendor listed in the following price guide. AnandTech does not sell positions on the Price Guide. AnandTech nor any of the vendors listed in this guide guarantee the prices presented in the following pages.
This Week
Without any significant changes in prices we refrained from listing price changes this week, however we did take the opportunity to add in a few Socket-A motherboards to the guide. For starters we have seen the return of the ultra-affordable SiS 735 chipset as well as the first indications of how costly nForce based motherboards will be in the weeks to come.
Memory Prices
Weekly
Memory Prices
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Memory
Module
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Price
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Change
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Vendor
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Shipping
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CNet
Pricing
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Notes
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DDR266 (PC2100) CAS 2.5 - 512MB |
$69
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Accubyte |
See
Site
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DDR266 (PC2100) CAS 2.5 - 512MB ECC |
$86
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Googlegear.com |
See
Site
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DDR333 (PC2700) CAS 2.5 - 256MB |
$56
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HardcoreCooling.com |
$4
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DDR266 (PC2100) CAS 2.5 - 256MB |
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Crucial |
Free
2-Day
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DDR266 (PC2100) CAS 2.5 - 256MB ECC |
$35
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Bunta Technology |
See
Site
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DDR266 (PC2100) CAS 2.5 - 128MB |
$13
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Coast to Coast Memory |
$6.70
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DDR266 (PC2100) CAS 2.5 - 128MB ECC |
$19
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AccessMicro.com |
$9.95
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PC800 RDRAM - 256MB |
$89
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Accubyte |
See
Site
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PC800 RDRAM - 128MB |
$32
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Nexthardwareshop.com |
$8
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PC150 CAS 2 - 256MB |
$16
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IComPz.com |
$10
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PC133 CAS 2 - 256MB |
$10
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PCBoost |
$10.85
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PC150 CAS 2 - 128MB |
$11
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NeutronUSA.com |
$8.89
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PC133 CAS 2 - 128MB |
$5
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1st Choice Memory |
$10.75
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Memory is cheap as usual and we're seeing that the "entry-level" sizes are now closer to 256MB, even for DDR SDRAM. Crucial continues to have the best overall deal for DDR SDRAM because of their unique relationship with Micron as a DRAM chip supplier. At $32 with free 2-day air shipping (not to mention a coupon specifically for AnandTech Forum Members which isn't included here) you can't beat their 256MB modules in terms of quality or overall price.
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AMD Motherboards
Weekly
Athlon/Duron (Socket-A) Motherboard Prices
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Motherboard
(Chipset)
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Price
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Change
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Vendor
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Shipping
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CNet
Pricing
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Notes
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ASUS A7V266 (VIA KT266) |
$130
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PeachPC |
$11.99
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Abit KG7-RAID (AMD 760) |
$142
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Atacom |
$9
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Abit KG7 (AMD 760) |
$129
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Accubyte |
$12.50
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ECS K75SA (SiS 735) |
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Newegg.com |
$9.90
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EPoX 8KHA+ (VIA KT266A) |
$107
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Newegg.com |
$9.90
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FIC AD11 (AMD 760) |
$93
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Atacom |
$9
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MSI K7N420 Pro (NVIDIA nForce) |
$185
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PC Progress |
See
Site
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Due
late Nov.
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Shuttle AK31 Revision 3.1 (VIA KT266A) |
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Tufshop |
$12
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Tyan Tiger MP (AMD 760MP) |
$206
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Newegg.com |
$9.90
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The SiS 735 based ECS K75SA is still by far the most affordable upgrade platform available for the Athlon. Couple a $57 motherboard with a $32 stick of memory and a $30 processor and you've got a very powerful Duron machine for less than $120. The one thing to be careful with is that you should make sure you have a powerful power supply that can deliver a clean signal to the motherboard as we've noticed that the K75SA is a bit more sensitive to noisy signals than most motherboards (potentially because of the use of poorer quality voltage regulator circuitry).
For a small amount more, the Shuttle AK31 Revision 3.1 is available and offers even better performance and four usable DIMM slots. Be careful when using all four however since you must use very high quality memory and back down on memory timings (Crucial DDR SDRAM worked fine during our tests).
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Tyan's Tiger MP: Affordable Multiprocessing
Intel Motherboards
Weekly
Intel Pentium 4 Motherboard Prices
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Motherboard
(Chipset)
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Price
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Change
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Vendor
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Shipping
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CNet
Pricing
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Notes
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ABIT TH7 RAID - Socket-423 (Intel 850) |
$146
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Atacom |
$9
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ABIT TH7-II RAID - Socket-478 (Intel 850) |
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Sunset Marketing Inc. |
$10
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ASUS P4B - Socket-478 (Intel 845) |
$159
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Accubyte |
$12.95
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ASUS P4T - Socket-423 (Intel 850) |
$157
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cnetpc.com |
$13
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ASUS P4T-E - Socket-478 (Intel 850) |
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Atacom |
$9
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ECS P4ITA - Socket-423 (Intel 850) |
$105
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Jazz Technology Inc. |
$13.95
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Intel D850GBC - Socket-423 (Intel 850) |
$132
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Accubyte |
$12.50
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Shuttle AV40 - Socket-478 (VIA P4X266) |
$95
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Jazz Technology Inc |
$13.95
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Not much has changed since last time when it comes to the Intel boards.
Weekly
Intel Pentium III/Celeron (Socket-370) Motherboard Prices
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Motherboard
(Chipset)
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Price
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Change
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Vendor
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Shipping
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CNet
Pricing
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Notes
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ASUS TUSL2 (i815E B-Step) |
$99
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PeachPC |
$11.49
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EPoX 3PTA (i815EP B-Step) |
$83
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cnetpc.com |
$13
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MSI 815EMT Pro (i815E B-Step) |
$97
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Sunset Marketing Inc. |
$10
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Intel 850 Motherboard Roundup: September 2001
Intel 845 Chipset Review & Motherboard Roundup: September 2001
Intel 815 B-Step Tualatin Motherboard Roundup - July 2001