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Old 7th May, 2005, 04:48 PM
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Is High End Memory All It's Cracked Up To Be?
Possibly illuminating article on the current trend of ultra fast, high voltage ram.

http://www.legitreviews.com/article.php?aid=199
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LoL. I've had some of that "high voltage" ram in my rig long before they started selling it as "high voltage". Paid way less then they are charging for it too!
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The markup on it is incredible though, 3000% in some cases, even taking into it the lower yields, and possible returns, it doesn't take a cambridge graduate to see the business sense there
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$8.70 a 512mb stick. it's sickening. But I've already said what they said.
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I could run 3gb of high-speed low latency DDR1 RAM for under $50. Its insane.
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Great link, thank you very much GrahamGarside!
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