Re: GX240 / GX 260 questions

One more thing about price curves. At some point, CPUs (and memory) become
almost totally obsolete, rarely used in serious computing, interesting to
hobbyists and a few others who relish being on the trailing edge. At that
point, prices plummet to something barely above scrap value.

I remember selling some company 4MB 30-pin SIMMs for $50 apiece not too long
ago, and they were ecstatic to pay such a low price. Now you can melt them down
for scrap. Same with 60MHz Socket 4 Pentium chips, which always ran too hot
anyway, and they got Intel started down the path of lower voltage CPUs.

.... Ben Myers

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:19:27 GMT, ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben
Myers) wrote:

>Yes, if the GX240 uses SDRAM, its supported CPUs are limited to 400Mhz FSB. I'm
>not sure about the GX260, although I have a GX260 board and some 533MHz FSB P4
>CPUs here that I could play with if I had the time. I think I would trust
>Dell's documentation, which seems to be very accurate.
>
>Yes, CPUs ARE expensive. If you track CPU prices through a life cycle, they are
>very expensive when they are top-of-the-line state-of-the-art, then the price
>drops, but kicks up again when the model goes out of production. Same with
>memory. Checked SDRAM prices lately? More expensive than DDR... Ben Myers
>
>On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:45:04 GMT, "Tom Scales" <tomtoo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>OK, I'm getting confused. Dell's doc on the GX260 says 400 or 533. The
>>GX240 uses SDRAM and I am guessing you mean it is limited to 400.
>>
>>Regardless, CPUs are EXPENSIVE. I'll likely leave it alone unless someone
>>has a suggestion for a cheap source. All the ones that I can find cost more
>>than I paid for the systems.
>>
>>Tom
>>
>>
>><ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)> wrote in message
>>news:43145cde.3376359@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Depending on the variant of 845 chip and the overall motherboard design,
>>> some
>>> 845 chipset boards can handle CPUs running at 800MHz FSB. Others top out
>>> at
>>> 533. Those with 168-pin DIMMs, not SDRAM, can handle only CPUs at 400MHz
>>> FSB.
>>>
>>> ... Ben Myers
>>
>>
>

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