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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.

Prices on boards seem to fluctuate. This week, there is a mixture of price cuts and rises on almost all of the boards from all four chipset manufacturers. While half of the boards seem to have no change in price, the other half have increased by a lot.

As for memory, prices on DDR memory as well as RDRAM, on the average, have risen significantly, some by double digits.

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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KT333 Chipset
Motherboard
Current Price (07/06/02)
Last Price (06/22/02)
Change
Vendor
Shipping
CNet Pricing
Notes
Aopen AK77-333 VIA KT333
$79.00
$79.00
$0.00
8
RTL
AsusTek A7V333 VIA KT333
$101.00
$101.00
$0.00
8+
RTL
ECS K7VTA3 v3.1 VIA KT333
$68.00
$68.00
$0.00
10+
OEM
EPOX EP-8K3A VIA KT333
$67.00
$67.00
$0.00
10+
RTL
*EPOX EP-8K3A+ VIA KT333
$100.00
NA
NA
10+
RTL
Gigabyte GA-7VRX VIA KT333
$75.00
$75.00
$0.00
10+
OEM
MSI MS-6380E KT3 VIA KT333
$77.00
$63.00
$14.00
9
RTL
Shuttle AK35GT2 VIA KT333
$73.00
$73.00
$0.00
8
RTL
* - New Additions

It seems that prices have been set in stone for the past few weeks. The only change in price has been the $14 rise on the MSI MS-6380E from $63 to $77. Also, the EPOX EP-8K3A+ has been added to the charts which includes some new features from the original version of this board.



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Intel 850 / 850E
Motherboard
Current Price (07/06/02)
Last Price (06/22/02)
Change
Vendor
Shipping
CNet Pricing
Notes
Abit TH7II-RAID i850
$108.00
$108.00
$0.00
5
AsusTek P4T-ATX i850
$103.00
$103.00
$0.00
8+
RTL
Epox EP-4T2A3 i850
$125.00
$125.00
$0.00
10
RTL
Gigabyte GA-8TX-C i850
$89.00
$93.00
-$4.00
6+
Intel D850GBC i850
$59.00
$71.00
-$12.00
10
OEM
MSI MS-6545 Pro 5 i850
$76.00
$119.00
-$43.00
10
OEM
AsusTek P4T533-C i850E
$151.00
$151.00
$0.00
10+
OEM
Intel D850EMV2 i850E
$135.00
$142.00
-$7.00
14.95
RTL
Intel 845 / 845E / 845G
Motherboard
Current Price (07/06/02)
Last Price (06/22/02)
Change
Vendor
Shipping
CNet Pricing
Notes
Abit BL7 i845
$72.00
$71.00
$1.00
10+
RTL
Aopen AX4BS-V i845
$73.00
$75.00
-$2.00
9
OEM
Gigabyte GA-8IDX i845
$60.00
$60.00
$0.00
10+
RTL
MSI MS-6534 i845
$49.00
$59.00
-$10.00
7.95
OEM
Tyan Trinity S2090 i845
$62.00
$63.00
-$1.00
Free
RTL
Gigabyte GA-8IE i845E
$96.00
$96.00
$0.00
8.9
OEM
MSI MS-6566E i845E
$86.00
$86.00
$0.00
8+
OEM
Abit BG7 i845G
$101.00
$112.00
-$11.00
14.95
RTL
AsusTek P4B533-VM i845G
$98.00
$103.00
-$5.00
8+
RTL
MSI MS-6580 i845G
$88.00
$92.00
-$4.00
5
RTL

Motherboards with the Intel based chipsets have been doing well in cutting a few dollars off their pricetags. The greatest price cuts among the boards on the Intel charts has been the $43 drop on the MSI MS-6545 Pro 5 carrying Intel's 850 series chipset. Following the Microstar board is the Intel D850GBC with a $12 drop.



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nForce 220/415/420
Motherboard
Current Price (07/06/02)
Last Price (06/22/02)
Change
Vendor
Shipping
CNet Pricing
Notes
AsusTek A7N266-VM nForce 220
$68.00
$74.00
-$6.00
10+
RTL
Abit NV7-133R nForce 415-D
$79.00
$79.00
$0.00
10+
OEM
AsusTek A7N266-C nForce 415-D
$68.00
$68.00
$0.00
10+
OEM
MSI K7N415 Pro nForce 415
$100.00
$100.00
$0.00
8
RTL
Abit NV7M nForce 420
$78.00
$78.00
$0.00
10+
OEM
AsusTek A7N266-E nForce 420-D
$137.00
$138.00
-$1.00
11+
RTL
MSI K7N420 Pro nForce 420-D
$115.00
$115.00
$0.00
11+
RTL

Generally, the prices for nVidia nForce based boards have stuck to their amounts from the last motherboard guide. The greatest drop in price for the nVidia series is the A7N266-VM from AsusTek carrying to nForce 220 chipset while almost all of the other products on this chart have not changed at all.



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SiS 730/735
Motherboard
Current Price (07/06/02)
Last Price (06/22/02)
Change
Vendor
Shipping
CNet Pricing
Notes
ECS K7SEM SiS 730
$45.00
$45.00
$0.00
10+
OEM
Chaintech 7SID SiS 735
$59.00
$53.00
$6.00
8
RTL
ECS K7S5A SiS 735
$46.00
$45.00
$1.00
8+
OEM
Leadtek 7350KDA SiS 735
$69.00
$69.00
$0.00
8
RTL

As with the nVidia chipset boards, the SiS boards have also been having trouble maintaining a steady decrease in prices. The leader on this chart for greatest drop in price is the Chaintech 7SID carrying the SiS 735 chipset. The only other board that has dropped in price is th ECS K7S5A carrying the 735 series chipset at only $1.



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DDR Memory
RAM
Current Price (07/06/02)
Last Price (06/22/02)
Change
Vendor
Shipping
CNet Pricing
Notes
XtremeDDR PC3200 DDR 512MB 
$170.00
$175.00
-$5.00
7
OEM
XtremeDDR PC3200 DDR 256MB
$68.00
$69.00
-$1.00
7
OEM
Mushkin PC3000 DDR 512MB
$151.00
$151.00
$0.00
See Site
OEM
XtremeDDR PC3000 DDR 256MB
$66.00
$68.00
-$2.00
7
OEM
XtremeDDR PC2700 DDR 512MB
$129.00
$138.00
-$9.00
Free
OEM
Kingmax PC2700 DDR 256MB
$51.00
$51.00
$0.00
7+
OEM
Corsair PC2400 DDR 512MB
$134.00
$134.00
$0.00
7+
OEM
Kingmax PC2400 DDR 256MB
$53.00
$49.00
$4.00
5+
OEM
Mushkin PC2100 DDR 512MB
$105.00
$81.00
$24.00
See Site
OEM
Micron PC2100 DDR 256MB
$36.00
$26.00
$10.00
8+
OEM
Samsung PC1600 DDR 512MB
$124.00
$105.00
$19.00
10.95
OEM
Micron Technology PC1600 DDR 256MB
$36.00
$41.00
-$5.00
0.95
OEM

The tables have turned this week for DDR memory. Prices on these high speed chips have increased as much as $24 (Mushkin PC2100 512MB) while the biggest price cut is held by XtremeDDR's 512MB of PC2700 at $9.



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RDRAM
RAM
Current Price (07/06/02)
Last Price (06/22/02)
Change
Vendor
Shipping
CNet Pricing
Notes
Samsung PC1066 RDRAM 256MB
$119.00
$139.00
-$20.00
8
OEM
Samsung PC800 RDRAM 512MB
$193.00
$180.00
$13.00
6+
OEM
Kingston PC800 RDRAM 256MB
$105.00
$85.00
$20.00
9.95
OEM
Kingston PC800 RDRAM 128MB
$48.00
$45.00
$3.00
4.73+
OEM

Hats off to Samsung's 256MBs of PC1066 chips! They have the greatest and the only cut in prices from $139 to $119. The other three entries on the chart have all increased in price from $3 to $20.

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