Hardly Normal
30 June 2002 12:57![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
denWent down to Hardly Normal to see if they had any cheap games and such for their end-of-year sale. They didn't. of course. It was all electronics and whitegoods that were on discount, not the good stuff.
I mentioned to Steve if he had any cheap RAM going. They had 256MB DIMMs for $250, but he said he could do it for $210. I said ok. So he pulls out all but the last packet of DIMMs and starts sorting through them, looking for a 256MB module. He paused, picked up the lonely packet still in the cabinet and looked at it. "Will this do?" he asked. It was a 256MB stick with $179 on the label.
"What's wrong with it?" was my first question. Nothing, apparently. It's been in there a while and probably got buried as the new stuff came in. I bought it.
It works with the 64MB dimm that came with the mobo. Does the 300MB RAM snoopy-dance I might give my old 32MB stick to my brother.
Pity there wasn't another cheap stick in Steve's cabinet. I can't afford it but at that price I'd have to.
I mentioned to Steve if he had any cheap RAM going. They had 256MB DIMMs for $250, but he said he could do it for $210. I said ok. So he pulls out all but the last packet of DIMMs and starts sorting through them, looking for a 256MB module. He paused, picked up the lonely packet still in the cabinet and looked at it. "Will this do?" he asked. It was a 256MB stick with $179 on the label.
"What's wrong with it?" was my first question. Nothing, apparently. It's been in there a while and probably got buried as the new stuff came in. I bought it.
It works with the 64MB dimm that came with the mobo. Does the 300MB RAM snoopy-dance I might give my old 32MB stick to my brother.
Pity there wasn't another cheap stick in Steve's cabinet. I can't afford it but at that price I'd have to.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 29 Jun 2002 20:29 (UTC)no subject
Date: 29 Jun 2002 21:06 (UTC)BTW, AU$1 = US$0.56
no subject
Date: 29 Jun 2002 21:27 (UTC)no subject
Date: 30 Jun 2002 13:35 (UTC)SDRAM + Radio
256Mb SDRAM 133MHz PC-133 + DLink Radio - £35.25 (AU$ 95.49)
256Mb SDRAM 100MHz PC-100 + DLink Radio - £39.95 (AU$ 108.22)
DDR + Radio
256Mb PC2700 DDR Memory + DLink Radio - £47.00 (AU$ 127.32)
256Mb PC2100 DDR Memory + DLink Radio - £36.37 (AU$ 98.52)
(The Radio is just a free thing you get with the memory)
Even the highest spec memory there is still AU$ 50.00 or so cheaper than what you're paying - and it'd cost at most AU$ 15.00 for shipping. I should imagine it's even cheaper to get it from the US?
You might want to look into the possibility of getting someone to do this for you.