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General Discussion Area / Re: Clearout time (PC bits)
« on: 14 February 2021, 23:34:25 »HM50256P-15 are 256K * 1 bit 150nS devices, so nine on a board is probably a 256K*9bit SIMM/DIMM. I'm guessing original PC XT/AT type era?
Shame they're not the faster -12 (120nS) devices :-)
I remember buying (Second hand) 4 x 4 mb 30 pin SIMM for £160 and feeling realy chuffed with my self.
Plus before that I bought my 1st system, an Amstrad 1640 with twin 5.25 floppy drives and a mono screen with a DMP4000 dot matrix printer for £999
Then a few years ago PC part prices were quite reasonable and now component prices are geting silly again. I mean the new graphics cards coming onto the market with 24GB video ram are heading past £2K in some cases.
GPU pricing is solely down to Cryptocurrency miners.
I am a PC Gamer, and still use a MSI 2080Super. I cannot FIND, let alone afford a new RTX 30xx series card.
The card I currently run, working from memory, cost me around £530. I could easily sell it today (at 2.5yrs old) for £700.
The whole industry is mental.
That said, now that AMD are actually properly romping Intel, the price war on CPU's is in full-swing. Because of that, motherboards are also very competitive.
There has never been a better time to build/buy a PC...... as long as you don't want it for gaming.