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    Anyone thinking of stocking up on Ram?

    It's very cheap at the mo....last time it got this cheap I was sorely tempted to buy a few gig PC3200 but I never did and since then, 3 builds later I regretted it. To get 1 gig oig of stuff, even if its for your NEXT build (A64?) for £50 sounds good news to me.

    http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...roductID=37454

    £25 inc vat for 512 Elixir PC3200.

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    Not been too keen on Elixir stuff, TBH. I'd rather spend an extra couple of quid and get something like Corsair Value.

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    What's the view on Crucial RAM these days?

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    Might not be a bad idea to stock up Zak:

    http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/050621/15/3t2wq.html

    ....but I wouldn't stress too much, it doesn't look like it'll rise too much again this year. I guess it depends how much you think you're likely to need. Bear in mind that sometime next year AMD plan to go to DDR2, so I wouldn't look much beyond the next six months when planning your buying.

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    I would rather be stocking up 1GB sticks. I got my corsair 2x1G value sticks at 110 pounds each. Too bad they doesn't clock good (System unstable at STOCK 200-3-3-3-8 rating, may be just some bad one went through due to not enough QC).

    Since they run not very stable I may switch to TWINX2048-3200C2 at 51 quids more expensive. Anyone know are TWINX2048-3200C2 good?
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    Thinking of 2GB G-Skill (TCCD) but cant find any 1GB sticks

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