[geeks] value of PIII PC servers

[Joshua Boyd]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 05:00:50PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Tue, 13 Jun 2006 @ 09:45 -0400, Joshua Boyd said:
> 
> > > The second is a P4, 1.7gHz. It takes 2 RAMBUS modules. It has two 128meg
> > > ones in it now. To upgrade it here in Israel, is extremely expensive.
> > > One 512m RIMM costs as much as a NEW 2.8gHz computer with 512m DDR RAM,
> > > 80 gig SATA drive, etc.
> > 
> > Yeah, that doesn't sound much worse than trying to upgrade a similar
> > machine in the US.
> 
> Hmmm... I saw 512MB of RIMMs for under $100 on ebay yesterday.
> 
> They must be really expensive in Israel.
> 
> Maybe he is talking about recent RIMMs, not the stuff that your typical
> PII uses (100 or 133MHz).

When I was looking, I didn't look at ebay since the machine is a work
machine and work doesn't do ebay.  128meg sticks still seem to pull
about $140 ea. from the top several retailers I found.

Maybe it is a bit better now.  If it was my home computer, I would
certainly ebay the RAM.