Re: Is $399 a good price to upgrade 512 MB to 1 GB SDRAM on new XP machine?
- From: "Ellen Hall" <ellen_hall_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 21:29:52 -0700
Wow. Thank you, everyone, for your input. I actually went to the Crucial
site earlier today but just didn't look far enough. I just used the Advisor
Tool (which guarantees compatibility for the system you input). It seems to
give me lots of options, and at a MUCH lower cost. I've changed out RAM
before, but wasn't looking at the new system as something I'd add to or
change so early.
Bob, this is the system I'm looking at (with a few changes):
http://www.mpccorp.com/home/store/config.html?sid=0E16CA0762744ABA8C33E6C9798C5309
Has anyone had to do any BIOS or other tweaking to get the memory
accepted/seen by the system? It's been awhile, and I don't think I had to
do anything except insert the piece(s) and power up.
Thanks very much,
Ellen Hall
"Bob Knowlden" <nkbob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uHomoNAvFHA.4032@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Whether getting 1 GB of RAM is reasonable depends on what you will use the
> PC for. My desktop at work has 512 MB total, and it's enough for my
> purposes. I don't see excessive disk swapping.
>
> $399 to go from 512 MB to 1 GB seems absurd. See www.crucial.com (the
retail
> arm of Micron) for comparisons. They list 2X512 MB (1 GB total, for a
> dual-channel system) of DDR2-4200 (533 MHz) Ballistix for $152US. (That's
> not a price difference - it is to buy the RAM separately.) At that rate,
> you'd do better to buy the system with minimum memory, and buy your 1 GB
> separately. You could discard the 256 MB that came with the system, and
> still be far ahead in money. (You'd have to be capable of installing the
new
> RAM, but that is one of the easiest things to do inside a PC, in my
> opinion.)
>
> Is this the system you're looking at?
>
> http://www.mpccorp.com/smallbiz/store/config.html?config=1381251
>
> The pricing seems odd. For example, the gaming version of the same system:
>
> http://www.mpccorp.com/smallbiz/store/config.html?config=1382487
>
> offers a *free* upgrade to 1 GB of RAM, and a 160 GB hard drive (rather
than
> 40 GB). The gaming system comes with XP Home rather than XP Pro, which may
> be adequate if you don't need the features in Pro (2 CPU support, some
> networking features, built-in file encryption available). The gaming
system
> also has no provision to order MS Office. I see that it also includes no
> mouse or keyboard, although you can add them for a modest sum.
>
> I hope that I'm mistaken in thinking that these are , rather, uh, *sharp*
> business practices.
>
> On the other hand, Dell used to charge $99 to ship a system anywhere in
the
> continental US. By regular UPS surface. They made a tidy profit on that,
on
> average.
>
> (In case it's not obvious, my home systems have been home grown since
1997.)
>
>
> Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.
>
> "Ellen Hall" <ellen_hall_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:%23Rry2l%23uFHA.2008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm configuring a new Micron Computer (had one for years and love it).
> > I've
> > always thought that 1 GB Memory was minimum for a great XP experience
> > (multitask, not a gamer). The one I'm looking at comes with:
> > Ballistix 512MB Dual Channel DDR2 533 SDRAM 2-DIMMs
> >
> > They want $399 to upgrade to Ballistix 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 533 SDRAM
> > 2-DIMMs.
> >
> > Do you agree about the 1 MB minimum, and if so, is the $399 upgrade
> > reasonable?
> >
> > Any opinions would be appreciated.
> > Thank you,
> > Ellen Hall
> >
> >
>
>
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