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Article #387Re: Looking for decent cheap RAM
From: Jon Rabone
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 17:11
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 17:11
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> try www.scan.co.uk > last time i looked they were doing 256 for �17 DON'T try Scan. The last 128 MB of RAM I bought from them was so out-of-spec it's not funny. It never worked in three different decent motherboards, and when I put it in a Dell machine at work (just idly, out of interest) the Dell BIOS complained that the timing data held in EEPROM on the DIMM was outside of Intel specifications. Jon.
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