Bought memory at right time

[Devils-Blood]

Just seen the ocz pc6400 platinum rev 2 memory I bought for £175 for £223 with the same retailer.

Makes a change to see something go up in price instead of just after purchase.

The memory prices are starting to over the top now.

[t31os]

Yeah they're gonna be up for a while apparently.

[Robin]

I guess you young lot don't remember what price an extra 16MB of EDO RAM was.... You have never had it so good :P

[Devils-Blood]

I remember Robin. The prices were outrages and if somebody had 32mb of ram that was hi spec. I remember the pc's coming with 1 or 2mb of ram and later on 4mb follow by 8mb and of which 2 mb would be used for graphics display. not many people had graphics card. The first graphics card I bought was a ATI with 4mb of ram and that was the highest somebody could buy at the time in the early 90's

[Biodoid]

I remember paying £50 for 8mb of pc100 back in 1997 a few days after buying a pc because quake wouldn't work as it needed 8mb to run lol though the 8mb that was in the machine was being shared by the onboard graphics so I really only had 7mb :oops:

[Firerat]

[quote:3069c2fcc3=\"Biodoid\"]I remember paying £50 for 8mb of pc100 back in 1997 a few days after buying a pc because quake wouldn't work as it needed 8mb to run lol though the 8mb that was in the machine was being shared by the onboard graphics so I really only had 7mb :oops:[/quote:3069c2fcc3]

I had to upgade my CPU to get Quake running

Can't remember how much it was , over a 100 quid for a souped up 486 ( AMD Evergreen 486-DX 133 which benchmarked as Pentium 75 )

had already upgraded the memory to keep win95 happy, added 16mb to make it 24mb, from Aria of course, was about £60 including delivery

[Devils-Blood]

Just thinking memory going up the way it is the next line of products to rise will be graphic cards as manufacturers pass on costs.

I was going to buy some memory about a month ago for £140 but that jumped to £174 and is now £199. The ocz hadn't gone up by then so I grabbed it

[Biodoid]

I bought a brand new P75 for £1000 :lol:

how times have changed

[Firerat]

I spent £2300 on my first Highspec PC

PII 400 Mhz
128mb Ram
8mb ATI All in wonder
12mb Orchid Righteous 3D Voodoo2
Creative SB Live
8gb IBM Harddrive
19\" LG Studioworks 99T
56k Flex Fax/Modem
Winblows 98

It was fast!!!

and Its still going :)
Well I guess it would be still going if I turned it on, I used it a file server a few years ago, 4 x 40GB IBM 60GXP's ( RAID 5)
CPU fan gave up, so I kinda 'Jamed' an 8cm fan between the PSU and mainB, not neat but it worked :lol:

Might dig it out and set it up as a Firewall / chroot Jailed Caching proxy
:idea: or as a honey pot for spam bots ;)

Monitor died early this year so I finaly joined the TFT club ( Dell 2005 )
the voodoo2 is in a box some place
SB LIve, can't remember, think I gave it to someone ( Wish I had kept it now, it was a 1st revision )
the All In Wonder is still in it ( but has artifacts, but hey its only in so it posts!! would just ssh in )
The Harddrive... I duno, probably still has a Dual boot win98 / Redhat Linux 5.2 on it, 8gb soon fills up

Anyway enougth nostalgia
Time to get into a Druken stupor

[Biodoid]

lol..my first standalone vid card was a matrox mystique :) and first aound card was a sb awe32

[Devils-Blood]

Just seen the memory for £266, gives me a warm glow to think I got it for £91 less than that price.

Just looked at that site again and the £266 was without vat, the retail price is £312. Shock.