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Untitled Document Introduction
For this weeks price guides we have compiled a list of prices for motherboards and memory for today's processors. For those of you not familiar with the guides here is a brief overview on how we construct them:

We select vendors to appear in our Price Guides based on two requirements: solid consumer feedback and having the lowest possible pricing. You'll notice that these vendors aren't paying us to be listed here; we do not accept requests to be listed here. We have tried to eliminate vendors with low feedback rating, but we do encourage you to do your own research before purchasing from any of these vendors.

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If there are any problems with the guide or a vendor's pricing changes dramatically then be sure to email the author listed at the top of the page and we'll take appropriate action. Remember that although some vendors may be cheaper, we only list those with generally positive feedback from a decent number of consumers. As usual, if you have any questions, comments or suggestions feel free to email us or post in the AnandTech Forums.

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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.

Not too much change on this weeks guides. Motherboard prices have mainly stayed put.

Memory prices seem to be stable once again. Hopefully we'll see some sort of movement in numbers in the next guide.

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...



INTEL CPU

VIA Chipset

Motherboard

Current Price (09/14/02)

Current Price (09/02/02)

Change

Vendor

Shipping

CNet Pricing

Notes

KT400

             

Gigabyte GA-7VAX

$93.00

NA

NA

Newegg.com

8

CNet Pricing

RTL

Soyo SY-KT400

$180.00

NA

NA

Newegg.com

10

CNet Pricing

RTL

ASUS A7V8X

$140.00

NA

NA

Newegg.com

11

CNet Pricing

RTL

KT333

             

Shuttle AK35GT2

$74.00

$74.00

$0.00

Newegg.com

8

CNet Pricing

RTL

MSI MS-6380E KT3

$69.00

$69.00

$0.00

Bunta Technology

9.50+

CNet Pricing

RTL

Gigabyte GA-7VRX

$80.00

$80.00

$0.00

Newegg.com

8

CNet Pricing

RTL

EPOX EP-8K3A+

$97.00

$97.00

$0.00

Bunta Technology

9.50+

CNet Pricing

RTL

ECS K7VTA3 v3.1

$68.00

$68.00

$0.00

Dealsonic.com

6.95

CNet Pricing

RTL

AsusTek A7V333

$97.00

$97.00

$0.00

Bunta Technology

9.50+

CNet Pricing

RTL

Aopen AK77-333

$80.00

$80.00

$0.00

GameVE.com

8+

CNet Pricing

RTL

P4M266

             

Shuttle MV42N

$56.00

$56.00

$0.00

Newegg.com

8

CNet Pricing

RTL

ECS P4VMM2

$60.00

$60.00

$0.00

Axion Technologies

8+

CNet Pricing

RTL

Biostar U8668

$58.00

$58.00

$0.00

FTIComputer.com

8.9

CNet Pricing

RTL

P4X266

             

VIA-VPSD VL33-S

$37.00

$37.00

$0.00

Axion Technologies

8+

CNet Pricing

RTL

Shuttle AV41

$48.00

$48.00

$0.00

Beyond Computer

12

CNet Pricing

RTL

ECS P4VXAD

$54.00

$54.00

$0.00

Axion Technologies

8+

CNet Pricing

RTL

This week the KT400 chipset has been added to the list. Many improvements have been introduced in this chipset including support for DDR400 memory. When doing these guides we wish to see changes in price, preferably drops, but this week, the VIA chipsets haven't changed a single penny. Hopefully the next guides will have some cuts.



INTEL CPU

Intel Chipset

Motherboard

Current Price (09/14/02)

Current Price (09/02/02)

Change

Vendor

Shipping

CNet Pricing

Notes

Intel 850/850E

             

Intel D850GBC i850

$39.00

$39.00

$0.00

Centrix Int'l

10

CNet Pricing

OEM

Intel D850EMV2 i850E

$145.00

$145.00

$0.00

PC Progress

11

CNet Pricing

RTL

Gigabyte GA-8TX-C i850

$133.00

NA

NA

Axion Technologies

8+

CNet Pricing

 

Epox EP-4T2A3 i850

$125.00

$141.00

-$16.00

Newegg.com

10

CNet Pricing

RTL

AsusTek P4T-ATX i850

$142.00

NA

NA

PC Progress

11

CNet Pricing

RTL

AsusTek P4T533-C i850E

$154.00

$154.00

$0.00

Beyond Computer

12

CNet Pricing

OEM

Abit TH7II-RAID i850

$130.00

$130.00

$0.00

PC Progress

11

CNet Pricing

RTL

Intel 845 / 845E / 845G

             

Tyan Trinity S2090 i845

$56.00

$56.00

$0.00

PartsPC.com

10+

CNet Pricing

RTL

MSI MS-6580 i845G

$95.00

$94.00

$1.00

Newegg.com

10

CNet Pricing

RTL

MSI MS-6566E i845E

$92.00

$93.00

-$1.00

Newegg.com

4

CNet Pricing

OEM

MSI MS-6534 i845

$108.00

$108.00

NA

Axion Technologies

8+

CNet Pricing

OEM

Gigabyte GA-8IE i845E

$100.00

$100.00

$0.00

GoogleGear.com

See Site

CNet Pricing

OEM

Gigabyte GA-8IDX i845

$63.00

$72.00

NA

PartsPC.com

10+

CNet Pricing

RTL

AsusTek P4B533-VM i845G

$104.00

$108.00

-$4.00

GoogleGear.com

See Site

CNet Pricing

RTL

Aopen AX4BS-V i845

$77.00

$82.00

-$5.00

Axion Technologies

8+

CNet Pricing

RTL

Abit BL7 i845

$80.00

$80.00

$0.00

PC Progress

11

CNet Pricing

RTL

Abit BG7 i845G

$98.00

$125.00

-$27.00

Newegg.com

10

CNet Pricing

RTL

The prices on Intel chipset based boards look better than the VIAs. Many boards have had price cuts since the last guides including the Epox board carrying the Intel 850 Chipset. The Abit BG7 has also decreased in price this week on the charts due to a change in vendor. We found that Newegg had the best price this week for that particular board.



INTEL CPU

nVidia nForce Chipset

Motherboard

Current Price (09/14/02)

Current Price (09/02/02)

Change

Vendor

Shipping

CNet Pricing

Notes

AsusTek A7N266-VM nForce 220

$69.00

$70.00

-$1.00

Beyond Computer

12

CNet Pricing

RTL

Abit NV7-133R nForce 415-D

$93.00

$93.00

$0.00

PC Progress

8

CNet Pricing

OEM

AsusTek A7N266-C nForce 415-D

$65.00

$65.00

$0.00

PartsPc.com

10+

CNet Pricing

OEM

MSI K7N415 Pro nForce 415

NA

$100.00

NA

Newegg.com

8

CNet Pricing

RTL

Abit NV7M nForce 420

$96.00

$96.00

$0.00

PC Progress

8

CNet Pricing

OEM

MSI K7N420 Pro nForce 420-D

$118.00

$118.00

$0.00

GameVE

8+

CNet Pricing

RTL

NVidia's prices havent changed much. the only decrease is held by AsusTek's A7N266-VM carrying the nForce 220 chipset.



INTEL CPU

SiS Chipset

Motherboard

Current Price (09/14/02)

Current Price (09/02/02)

Change

Vendor

Shipping

CNet Pricing

Notes

650

             

Shuttle MS51N

$78.00

$78.00

$0.00

Newegg.com

4

CNet Pricing

RTL

MSI MS-6533-GL

$80.00

$80.00

$0.00

Newegg.com

5

CNet Pricing

RTL

Gigabyte GA-8SIML

$76.00

$82.00

-$6.00

PartsPC.com

10+

CNet Pricing

RTL

ECS L4S5M

$56.00

$56.00

$0.00

PartsPC.com

10+

CNet Pricing

RTL

Biostar M7SXG

$65.00

$65.00

$0.00

FTIComputer.com

8.95

CNet Pricing

RTL

AsusTek P4S333-VM

$85.00

$74.00

$11.00

Google Gear

See Site

CNet Pricing

RTL

Aopen MX46

$71.00

$71.00

$0.00

Axion Technologies

8

CNet Pricing

RTL

730/735/745

         

CNet Pricing

RTL

ECS K7SEM SiS 730

$59.00

$59.00

$0.00

Axion Technologies

8

CNet Pricing

OEM

ECS K7S5A SiS 735

$53.00

$53.00

$0.00

Newegg.com

4

CNet Pricing

OEM

Chaintech 7SID SiS 735

$59.00

$59.00

$0.00

Newegg.com

4

CNet Pricing

RTL

MSI MS-6561 SiS 745

$64.00

$65.00

-$1.00

Newegg.com

4

CNet Pricing

RTL

ECS K7S6A SiS 745

NA

$64.00

NA

ComputerHQ.com

9.26+

CNet Pricing

RTL

AsusTek A7S333 SiS745

$61.00

$72.00

-$11.00

PartsPC.com

10+

CNet Pricing

RTL

The AsusTek A7S333 has seen the greatest price drop since the last guide. It has dropped $11 since the 1st edition of the September Motherboard & Memory guide.



INTEL CPU

DDR Memory

RAM

Current Price (09/14/02)

Current Price (09/02/02)

Change

Vendor

Shipping

CNet Pricing

Notes

XtremeDDR PC3200 DDR 512MB

$185.00

$185.00

$0.00

OC System

7

CNet Pricing

OEM

XtremeDDR PC3200 DDR 256MB

$95.00

$95.00

$0.00

OC System

7

CNet Pricing

OEM

Mushkin PC3000 DDR 512MB

$169.00

$170.00

-$1.00

NewEgg.com

Free

CNet Pricing

OEM

XtremeDDR PC3000 DDR 256MB

$90.00

$90.00

$0.00

OC System

7

CNet Pricing

OEM

XtremeDDR PC2700 DDR 512MB

$165.00

$165.00

$0.00

OC System

7

CNet Pricing

OEM

Kingmax PC2700 DDR 256MB

$64.00

$68.00

-$4.00

Kommax

5+

CNet Pricing

OEM

Corsair PC2400 DDR 512MB

$162.00

$162.00

$0.00

GoogleGear.com

See Site

CNet Pricing

OEM

Kingmax PC2400 DDR 256MB

$60.00

$60.00

$0.00

Kommax

5+

CNet Pricing

OEM

Mushkin PC2100 DDR 512MB

$122.00

$109.00

$13.00

Mushkin

See Site

CNet Pricing

OEM

Micron PC2100 DDR 256MB

$60.00

$58.00

$2.00

GoogleGear.com

See Site

CNet Pricing

OEM

DDR memory prices haven't changed too much. Kingmax's 256MB of PC2700 has dropped $4 while Mushkin has put on a hefty $13 to its 512MB of PC2100 memory.



INTEL CPU

RDRAM

RAM

Current Price (09/14/02)

Current Price (09/02/02)

Change

Vendor

Shipping

CNet Pricing

Notes

Samsung PC1066 RDRAM 512MB

$369.00

$369.00

$0.00

ComponentsDirect.com

10

CNet Pricing

OEM

Samsung PC1066 RDRAM 256MB

$116.00

$116.00

$0.00

BuyMStar.com

See Site

CNet Pricing

OEM

Samsung PC800 RDRAM 512MB

$120.00

NA

NA

NewEgg.com

Free

CNet Pricing

OEM

Kingston PC800 RDRAM 256MB

$93.00

$95.00

-$2.00

DLJ System

7

CNet Pricing

OEM

Kingston PC800 RDRAM 128MB

$52.00

$52.00

$0.00

PC Supply Source

Free

CNet Pricing

OEM

Barely any change at all on RDRAM. The only price drop, or change at all, has been by Kingston's 256MB of PC800 Memory.

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