Hi All, As I am sure that there are people on this list that are far more knowledgeable about hardware than I am, I was hoping that someone could point me in the right directions. I am looking to buy a new motherboard because the one that I have is fairly limited in it's upgrade path. With a new motherboard purchase, I am going to be making the jump into DDR RAM (right now I still use PC100 SDRAM). One of the problems is that there seem to be many different levels of DDR (ranging from PC1600 to PC3200). I'd like to read up on what exactly these specifications mean, if the are compatible, interchangeable, etc.
<RANT> On a side note, speaking of hardware, I'd like to mention a very disturbing experience I had at a computer show in Salem N.H. yesterday. I remember when computer shows were full of hobbyists getting great deals on inexpensive hardware from honest vendors. What I saw yesterday was prices 2 and 3 times higher than retail, and people who had no clue *PAYING* these prices. One example was the average price for an AMD Athlon 1.3GHz 266/FSB CPU was $199.00. Average retail price is about $95. Memory was $150 and up for a 128MB PC133 DIMM. I even heard one guy telling a poor, uninformed woman that RAMBUS was the next big thing, and that she should really pay the extra $200 for the memory for her son's computer (he wanted $375 for 256MB RAMBUS). Of course, I couldn't resist the chance to step in and help the woman. What happened to the good old days???? </RANT> C-Ya, Kenny ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
