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This Week
As usual, if you have any reports of incorrect prices please feel free to email us with the name of the vendor and the product/price that appears incorrectly on their website. This will help us produce a more useful guide in the future.

Three new chipsets have been added to the charts this week. Among them are the VIA P4X266 and P4M266 and from SiS, the 650 series chipset. Check out the prices on these entering boards, and also see how previous boards have held up with their numbers.

Since DDR memory prices took a huge hit on the last guides, they have seemed to evened out a little. Some prices have even decreased. Most of them however remain unchanged.

Go ahead and take a look at this week's changes in prices for the most popular boards along with the top brands in desktop memory...



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VIA Chipset Motherboards

Motherboard
Current Price (08/01/02)
Last Price (07/22/02)
Change
Vendor
Shipping
CNet Pricing
Notes
KT333
Shuttle AK35GT2
$82.00
$74.00
$8.00
8
RTL
MSI MS-6380E KT3
$67.00
$65.00
$2.00
9.50+
RTL
Gigabyte GA-7VRX 
$71.00
$71.00
$0.00
10+
RTL
EPOX EP-8K3A+
$97.00
$100.00
-$3.00
9.50+
RTL
EPOX EP-8K3A
$65.00
$66.00
-$1.00
9.50+
RTL
ECS K7VTA3 v3.1
$68.00
$65.00
$3.00
6.95
RTL
AsusTek A7V333
$101.00
$101.00
$0.00
9.50+
RTL
Aopen AK77-333
$79.00
$79.00
$0.00
8
RTL
P4M266
Shuttle MV42N
$56.00
NA
NA
8
RTL
ECS P4VMM2
$55.00
NA
NA
10+
RTL
Biostar U8668
$59.00
NA
NA
8.9
RTL
P4X266
VIA-VPSD VL33-S
$37.00
NA
NA
8+
RTL
Shuttle AV41
$53.00
NA
NA
7
RTL
ECS P4VXAD
$54.00
NA
NA
8+
RTL
               
               

We've added a few chipsets on the VIA charts this week. The Pentium "flavored" P4M266 and the P4X266 all range from the high $30 to $50 range, why pay more for the CPU and the motherboard?



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Intel Chipset Motherboards

Motherboard
Current Price (08/01/02)
Last Price (07/22/02)
Change
Vendor
Shipping
CNet Pricing
Notes
Intel 850/850E
   
MSI MS-6545 Pro 5 i850
$55.00
$55.00
$0.00
10
OEM
Intel D850GBC i850
$59.00
$59.00
$0.00
10
OEM
Intel D850EMV2 i850E
$135.00
$135.00
$0.00
14.95
RTL
Gigabyte GA-8TX-C i850
$93.00
$89.00
$4.00
8+
Epox EP-4T2A3 i850
$141.00
$139.00
$2.00
8+
RTL
AsusTek P4T-ATX i850
$103.00
$103.00
$0.00
8+
RTL
AsusTek P4T533-C i850E
$158.00
$154.00
$4.00
5
OEM
Abit TH7II-RAID i850
$126.00
$105.00
$21.00
6
RTL
Intel 845 / 845E / 845G
Tyan Trinity S2090 i845
$56.00
$58.00
-$2.00
10+
CNet Pricing
RTL
MSI MS-6580 i845G
$88.00
$86.00
$2.00
5
RTL
MSI MS-6566E i845E
$90.00
$86.00
$4.00
4
OEM
MSI MS-6534 i845
$49.00
$49.00
$0.00
7.95
OEM
Gigabyte GA-8IE i845E
$92.00
$93.00
-$1.00
7
OEM
Gigabyte GA-8IDX i845
$59.00
$59.00
$0.00
7+
RTL
AsusTek P4B533-VM i845G
$98.00
$99.00
-$1.00
10
RTL
Aopen AX4BS-V i845
$82.00
$72.00
$10.00
8+
RTL
Abit BL7 i845
$79.00
$75.00
$4.00
4
RTL
Abit BG7 i845G
$105.00
$101.00
$4.00
14.95
RTL

Most prices on Intel chipset based boards have not changed too much since the last guides. The greatest increase is held by the Abit TH7II-RAID carrying the Intel 850 chipset at +$21 while Aopen's AX4BS-V with the Intel 845 chipset has decreased a hefty $10.

 



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NVidia nForce Chipset Motherboards

Motherboard
Current Price (08/01/02)
Last Price (07/22/02)
Change
Vendor
Shipping
CNet Pricing
Notes
AsusTek A7N266-VM nForce 220
$68.00
$68.00
$0.00
10+
RTL
Abit NV7-133R nForce 415-D
$80.00
$80.00
$0.00
11+
OEM
AsusTek A7N266-C nForce 415-D
$68.00
$96.00
-$28.00
10+
OEM
MSI K7N415 Pro nForce 415
$100.00
$100.00
$0.00
8
RTL
Abit NV7M nForce 420
$95.00
$80.00
$15.00
8+
OEM
AsusTek A7N266-E nForce 420-D
$137.00
$137.00
$0.00
11+
RTL
MSI K7N420 Pro nForce 420-D
$115.00
$115.00
$0.00
10+
RTL
 

The majority of the boards on the nForce charts have remained at a $0 change. The two that have changed, AsusTek's A7N266-C and Abit's NV7M have changed quite a bit at -$28 and +$15 respectively.

 

 



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SiS Chipset

Motherboard
Current Price (08/01/02)
Last Price (07/22/02)
Change
Vendor
Shipping
CNet Pricing
Notes
650            
Shuttle MS51N
$78.00
NA
NA
4
RTL
MSI MS-6533-GL
$80.00
NA
NA
5
RTL
Gigabyte GA-8SIML
$82.00
NA
NA
8
RTL
ECS L4S5M
$56.00
NA
NA
10+
RTL
Biostar M7SXG
$66.00
NA
NA
8.95
RTL
AsusTek P4S333-VM
$82.00
NA
NA
5
RTL
Aopen MX46
$75.00
NA
NA
8
RTL
730/735/745
ECS K7SEM SiS 730
$55.00
$41.00
$14.00
4
OEM
Leadtek 7350KDA SiS 735
NA
$69.00
NA
4
RTL
ECS K7S5A SiS 735
$55.00
$46.00
$9.00
4
OEM
Chaintech 7SID SiS 735
$59.00
$59.00
$0.00
4
RTL
MSI MS-6561 SiS 745
$65.00
$61.00
$4.00
4
RTL
ECS K7S6A SiS 745
$64.00
$64.00
$0.00
9.26+
RTL
AsusTek A7S333 SiS745
$61.00
$58.00
$3.00
10+
RTL

While we're adding boards to some of the other lists, we thought, why leave SiS out of the game? So we've added the SiS 650 series to the charts this week. These boards carrying the SiS 650 chipset range in price mostly in the $70-$80 spread except the boards from ECS and Biostar which are $56 and $66 respectively.



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DDR Memory

Memory
Current Price (08/01/02)
Last Price (07/22/02)
Change
Vendor
Shipping
CNet Pricing
Notes
XtremeDDR PC3200 DDR 512MB 
$185.00
$179.00
$6.00
5+
CNet Pricing OEM
XtremeDDR PC3200 DDR 256MB
$95.00
$95.00
$0.00
7
CNet Pricing OEM
Mushkin PC3000 DDR 512MB
$174.00
$159.00
$15.00
5
CNet Pricing OEM
XtremeDDR PC3000 DDR 256MB
$90.00
$90.00
$0.00
7
CNet Pricing OEM
XtremeDDR PC2700 DDR 512MB
$168.00
$165.00
$3.00
5+
CNet Pricing OEM
Kingmax PC2700 DDR 256MB
$73.00
$72.00
$1.00
5
CNet Pricing OEM
Corsair PC2400 DDR 512MB
$165.00
$196.00
-$31.00
See Site
CNet Pricing OEM
Kingmax PC2400 DDR 256MB
NA
$69.00
NA
5+
CNet Pricing OEM
Mushkin PC2100 DDR 512MB
$115.00
$120.00
-$5.00
See Site
CNet Pricing OEM
Micron PC2100 DDR 256MB
$62.00
$65.00
-$3.00
See Site
CNet Pricing OEM
Samsung PC1600 DDR 512MB
$128.00
$128.00
$0.00
10.95
CNet Pricing OEM
Micron PC1600 DDR 256MB
NA
$63.00
NA
10.95
CNet Pricing OEM
               

The majority of the boards on the nForce charts have remained at a $0 change. The two that have changed, AsusTek's A7N266-C and Abit's NV7M have changed quite a bit at -$28 and +$15 respectively.



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RDRAM

RAM
Current Price (08/01/02)
Last Price (07/22/02)
Change
Vendor
Shipping
CNet Pricing
Notes
Samsung PC1066 RDRAM 512MB
$369.00
$369.00
$0.00
10
OEM
Samsung PC1066 RDRAM 256MB
$119.00
$129.00
-$10.00
See Site
OEM
Samsung PC800 RDRAM 512MB
$194.00
$198.00
-$4.00
6+
OEM
Kingston PC800 RDRAM 256MB
$96.00
$106.00
-$10.00
7
OEM
Kingston PC800 RDRAM 128MB
$52.00
$48.00
$4.00
6.23+
OEM
               

Prices on RDRAM chips continue to drop. Samsung's 256MB of PC1066 memory and Kingston's 256MB of PC800 memory have cut an amazing $10 off their tags in the past two weeks.

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