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Weekly Hardware Price Guides - Motherboards & Memory: September 2002 3rd Edition
by Kristopher Kubicki on September 14, 2002 3:49 PM EST- Posted in
- Guides
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.
With the new and improved Price Guides we have not only increased our standards when evaluating online vendors, but we have also partnered up with our friends at CNet to offer yet another service to you all. Using CNet's Shopper.com search engine we can provide you with an additional pool of vendors to search from that are checked up on by CNet. You can wade through those results by clicking on the CNet Pricing link in the second to last column on the right.
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...
VIA Chipset
Motherboard |
Current Price (09/14/02) |
Current Price (09/02/02) |
Change |
Vendor |
Shipping |
CNet Pricing |
Notes |
KT400 |
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Gigabyte GA-7VAX |
$93.00 |
NA |
NA |
8 |
RTL |
||
Soyo SY-KT400 |
$180.00 |
NA |
NA |
10 |
RTL |
||
ASUS A7V8X |
$140.00 |
NA |
NA |
11 |
RTL |
||
KT333 |
|||||||
Shuttle AK35GT2 |
$74.00 |
$74.00 |
$0.00 |
8 |
RTL |
||
MSI MS-6380E KT3 |
$69.00 |
$69.00 |
$0.00 |
9.50+ |
RTL |
||
Gigabyte GA-7VRX |
$80.00 |
$80.00 |
$0.00 |
8 |
RTL |
||
EPOX EP-8K3A+ |
$97.00 |
$97.00 |
$0.00 |
9.50+ |
RTL |
||
ECS K7VTA3 v3.1 |
$68.00 |
$68.00 |
$0.00 |
6.95 |
RTL |
||
AsusTek A7V333 |
$97.00 |
$97.00 |
$0.00 |
9.50+ |
RTL |
||
Aopen AK77-333 |
$80.00 |
$80.00 |
$0.00 |
8+ |
RTL |
||
P4M266 |
|||||||
Shuttle MV42N |
$56.00 |
$56.00 |
$0.00 |
8 |
RTL |
||
ECS P4VMM2 |
$60.00 |
$60.00 |
$0.00 |
8+ |
RTL |
||
Biostar U8668 |
$58.00 |
$58.00 |
$0.00 |
8.9 |
RTL |
||
P4X266 |
|||||||
VIA-VPSD VL33-S |
$37.00 |
$37.00 |
$0.00 |
8+ |
RTL |
||
Shuttle AV41 |
$48.00 |
$48.00 |
$0.00 |
12 |
RTL |
||
ECS P4VXAD |
$54.00 |
$54.00 |
$0.00 |
8+ |
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 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 |
10 |
OEM |
||
Intel D850EMV2 i850E |
$145.00 |
$145.00 |
$0.00 |
11 |
RTL |
||
Gigabyte GA-8TX-C i850 |
$133.00 |
NA |
NA |
8+ |
|||
Epox EP-4T2A3 i850 |
$125.00 |
$141.00 |
-$16.00 |
10 |
RTL |
||
AsusTek P4T-ATX i850 |
$142.00 |
NA |
NA |
11 |
RTL |
||
AsusTek P4T533-C i850E |
$154.00 |
$154.00 |
$0.00 |
12 |
OEM |
||
Abit TH7II-RAID i850 |
$130.00 |
$130.00 |
$0.00 |
11 |
RTL |
||
Intel 845 / 845E / 845G |
|||||||
Tyan Trinity S2090 i845 |
$56.00 |
$56.00 |
$0.00 |
10+ |
CNet Pricing |
RTL |
|
MSI MS-6580 i845G |
$95.00 |
$94.00 |
$1.00 |
10 |
RTL |
||
MSI MS-6566E i845E |
$92.00 |
$93.00 |
-$1.00 |
4 |
OEM |
||
MSI MS-6534 i845 |
$108.00 |
$108.00 |
NA |
8+ |
OEM |
||
Gigabyte GA-8IE i845E |
$100.00 |
$100.00 |
$0.00 |
See Site |
OEM |
||
Gigabyte GA-8IDX i845 |
$63.00 |
$72.00 |
NA |
10+ |
RTL |
||
AsusTek P4B533-VM i845G |
$104.00 |
$108.00 |
-$4.00 |
See Site |
RTL |
||
Aopen AX4BS-V i845 |
$77.00 |
$82.00 |
-$5.00 |
8+ |
RTL |
||
Abit BL7 i845 |
$80.00 |
$80.00 |
$0.00 |
11 |
RTL |
||
Abit BG7 i845G |
$98.00 |
$125.00 |
-$27.00 |
10 |
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.
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 |
12 |
RTL |
||
Abit NV7-133R nForce 415-D |
$93.00 |
$93.00 |
$0.00 |
8 |
OEM |
||
AsusTek A7N266-C nForce 415-D |
$65.00 |
$65.00 |
$0.00 |
10+ |
OEM |
||
MSI K7N415 Pro nForce 415 |
NA |
$100.00 |
NA |
8 |
RTL |
||
Abit NV7M nForce 420 |
$96.00 |
$96.00 |
$0.00 |
8 |
OEM |
||
MSI K7N420 Pro nForce 420-D |
$118.00 |
$118.00 |
$0.00 |
8+ |
RTL |
NVidia's prices havent changed much. the only decrease is held by AsusTek's A7N266-VM carrying the nForce 220 chipset.
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 |
4 |
RTL |
||
MSI MS-6533-GL |
$80.00 |
$80.00 |
$0.00 |
5 |
RTL |
||
Gigabyte GA-8SIML |
$76.00 |
$82.00 |
-$6.00 |
10+ |
RTL |
||
ECS L4S5M |
$56.00 |
$56.00 |
$0.00 |
10+ |
RTL |
||
Biostar M7SXG |
$65.00 |
$65.00 |
$0.00 |
8.95 |
RTL |
||
AsusTek P4S333-VM |
$85.00 |
$74.00 |
$11.00 |
See Site |
RTL |
||
Aopen MX46 |
$71.00 |
$71.00 |
$0.00 |
8 |
RTL |
||
730/735/745 |
RTL |
||||||
ECS K7SEM SiS 730 |
$59.00 |
$59.00 |
$0.00 |
8 |
OEM |
||
ECS K7S5A SiS 735 |
$53.00 |
$53.00 |
$0.00 |
4 |
OEM |
||
Chaintech 7SID SiS 735 |
$59.00 |
$59.00 |
$0.00 |
4 |
RTL |
||
MSI MS-6561 SiS 745 |
$64.00 |
$65.00 |
-$1.00 |
4 |
RTL |
||
ECS K7S6A SiS 745 |
NA |
$64.00 |
NA |
9.26+ |
RTL |
||
AsusTek A7S333 SiS745 |
$61.00 |
$72.00 |
-$11.00 |
10+ |
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.
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 |
7 |
OEM |
||
XtremeDDR PC3200 DDR 256MB |
$95.00 |
$95.00 |
$0.00 |
7 |
OEM |
||
Mushkin PC3000 DDR 512MB |
$169.00 |
$170.00 |
-$1.00 |
Free |
OEM |
||
XtremeDDR PC3000 DDR 256MB |
$90.00 |
$90.00 |
$0.00 |
7 |
OEM |
||
XtremeDDR PC2700 DDR 512MB |
$165.00 |
$165.00 |
$0.00 |
7 |
OEM |
||
Kingmax PC2700 DDR 256MB |
$64.00 |
$68.00 |
-$4.00 |
5+ |
OEM |
||
Corsair PC2400 DDR 512MB |
$162.00 |
$162.00 |
$0.00 |
See Site |
OEM |
||
Kingmax PC2400 DDR 256MB |
$60.00 |
$60.00 |
$0.00 |
5+ |
OEM |
||
Mushkin PC2100 DDR 512MB |
$122.00 |
$109.00 |
$13.00 |
See Site |
OEM |
||
Micron PC2100 DDR 256MB |
$60.00 |
$58.00 |
$2.00 |
See Site |
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.
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 |
10 |
OEM |
||
Samsung PC1066 RDRAM 256MB |
$116.00 |
$116.00 |
$0.00 |
See Site |
OEM |
||
Samsung PC800 RDRAM 512MB |
$120.00 |
NA |
NA |
Free |
OEM |
||
Kingston PC800 RDRAM 256MB |
$93.00 |
$95.00 |
-$2.00 |
7 |
OEM |
||
Kingston PC800 RDRAM 128MB |
$52.00 |
$52.00 |
$0.00 |
Free |
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.