Re: Looking for decent cheap RAM

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From: Brian C
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 17:58

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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.
>
It's probably better that it did that than just randomly locked your machine
up,
which some crap is know to do. I've heard its not unknown for less
scrupulous suppliers to for instance rebadge p100 sticks as p133.
Considering its so cheap these days I don't see the point in scrimping to
save
a few pennies by going to someone dodgey!

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