{"id":1893,"date":"2008-06-01T20:10:01","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T18:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/01\/memory-is-cheap\/"},"modified":"2008-06-01T10:14:42","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T08:14:42","slug":"memory-is-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/01\/memory-is-cheap\/","title":{"rendered":"Memory is cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"right35_box\">\n<p>If you are visiting Paris, you must know about <em>rue Montgallet<\/em>. This is the nice little geek secret here. A street (and a couple of neighbouring ones) where you will find literally one computer shop every other door step. Prices are as low as they can get in France.<\/p>\n<p>I usually start from the top (Metro station <em>Montgallet<\/em>), moves down the street collecting prices, possibly continuing in <em>rue de Charenton<\/em>. Then, having decided about the model-price I want to buy I come back to the metro. This is done very easily because for most products the prices are displayed in lists outside the shops. If it&#8217;s not listed, the prices is not worth asking for inside.<\/div>\n<p>This is the first-hand observation I made this week. I wanted to add 2GB of RAM memory to my main PC (going from 2GB to 4GB RAM allows to accelerate all my activities in Photoshop when I open more than 3 or 4 12-mega-pixel images at the same time). So, as the normal Parisian geek I am, I ran to the Paris Mecca of PC computing: <em>Montgallet street<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense#square_left-->There, I could buy 2 memory modules in a matched XMS2 set of DDR-2\/800 PC6400 (CAS5) from Corsair for a mere 41&#8364; and observe that -if you accept lower performance or less famous brands- prices can go as low as 19&#8364;. This is the right time to buy RAM!<\/p>\n<p>However, I should also indicate that DRAMexchange announces a possible small increase of RAM prices during this Summer. Maybe the beginning of a small recovery for a market that has been very favorable to the customer for a long time?<\/p>\n<p>Important notice for those intending to do exactly like me: Under Windows (at least if you do not use the 64-bit version of the OS), installing 4GB of RAM will only provide 3.5GB of really available memory. But at this price, I have no issue with wasting 512MB&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are visiting Paris, you must know about rue Montgallet. This is the nice little geek secret here. A street (and a couple of neighbouring ones) where you will find literally one computer shop every other door step. Prices are as low as they can get in France. I usually start from the top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,87],"tags":[866,867,865],"class_list":["post-1893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cpu-memory","category-photo-graphics","tag-ddr2","tag-price","tag-ram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}