This BH5 business is getting out of hand

Galt · Apr 26, 2004

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=44938&item=3475831111&rd=1

Excessive, anyone? Really, does anybody think it's worth *that* much? (other than the person who bought it, of course)

Clevor · Apr 26, 2004

Amazing considering the sticks may be duds, as more than a few were. If I were the seller, at least I'd say what the sticks can do, with the disclaimer that it was done on a certain board - other boards not guaranteed.

On Ebay you don't get what you expect even when they say, so when they don't . . .

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But the Mushkin was way overpriced anyway. The owner may have paid >$400 for the sticks too. I think at one point the ram was selling for $220 per 512 MB stick.

Over the weekend, I saw a used 512 MB stick of XMS3500 here in Japan. Wasn't cheap either. $139 for a used stick??? Used Corsair ram is very rare here. Only other stick I saw was a 512 MB stick of XMS3500 mislabeled as XMS3200, for $92. That was almost two years ago. Bought the stick

and it is actually my best one down low, capable of DDR456 at 2.8 volts, 2-2-2-5. High end? DDR500, 2-2-2-5 at 3.28 volts (worse one of my 7 sticks). Maybe that's why the original owner sold it

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Tatuya · Apr 26, 2004

Defintely not worth the cash. You could get a new chip, mobo and other GB of RAM for that much, stupid to pay that much IMHO.

eva2000 · Apr 26, 2004

ooooooooh then i must be rich my pics at here

ares350 · Apr 27, 2004

that is great lol. more than half the price of my whole PC.

and I bet he gets about 500points higher on benchmarks if that. maybe half to 1fps faster.

I guess if your rolling in it, its something of a collectable/novelty peice.

9mmCensor · Apr 27, 2004

That is rather excessive.

People are crazy.

Sentential · Apr 27, 2004

knowledge is power. Pplz dont realize that Hynix and other brands come very close to BH5 at a fraction of the price

Gogeta_G3D · Apr 27, 2004

idiots i say.

JKeefe · Apr 27, 2004

Not idiots, if you have the money to spend. Definitely crazy, though.

I take comfort in knowing I paid $220 for 1GB of CH-5 and I get to run low latencies at DDR400. RAM was by far the most expensive component in this system, and I can't imagine paying $500+ for memory.

The more I read about crazy BH-5 hording, the more I wish I'd just bought some generic DDR400 for half the price and suffered the 2% framerate loss.

ChiefScout · Apr 27, 2004

insano man says thats insane....but then so is -40C

wannaoc · Apr 27, 2004

$500.00 and the guy has 10 feedbacks?! Only a crazy man would pay that anyway but add that and its foolish. This guy probably tested this stuff with so many volts its silly and still got a bad o/c so he sells them off.

Too many people with more money then sense these days. Buy a damn set of OCZ EB for $350.00 and get basically the same performance at a much cheaper price.

Dermen · Apr 27, 2004

I'm wishing I would have spent the extra cash and got the mushkin just so I could sell it now. I wonder how much I could sell my KHX3000 with BH-5 for. I only paid $195.

Tatuya · Apr 27, 2004

Originally posted by eva2000
ooooooooh then i must be rich my pics at here

I totally hate you man, if those are really yours then you can and will make a #%!load of cash off those chip.

mattspalace · Apr 27, 2004

I do have the cash and paying $500+ for that memory is just plain ignorant.
That stuff has zero warranty, and is likely stuff that doesn't overclock too well.
I'm happy for the guy that got $500 from a sucker though.

Clevor · Apr 27, 2004

Buying used ram is like buying a used CPU. There's a reason for it ('cept maybe the XMS3500 stick I lucked out on).

Being this is Ebay, it's probably the usual story of I-just-bought-a-house-and-my-wife-is-pregnant-with-twins, sooooo, I gotta sell some perfectly good sticks of ram.

But as I said, I don't think the seller made that much, maybe $100. The Mushkin ram was really overpriced, and the seller may have paid $440 for 1 GB. 'Course making money on something used is always rare.

But it's true Mushkin won't honor the warrantee if you are not the original buyer. ???? I guess they assume the new buyer will overclock and abuse the ram more?

canadianpsycho · Apr 27, 2004

wannaoc said:
$500.00 and the guy has 10 feedbacks?! Only a crazy man would pay that anyway but add that and its foolish. This guy probably tested this stuff with so many volts its silly and still got a bad o/c so he sells them off.

Too many people with more money then sense these days. Buy a damn set of OCZ EB for $350.00 and get basically the same performance at a much cheaper price.

Well said... I can't imagine getting gouged for BH5, then the "next big thing" comes around the corner and probably for a fraction of the price...

This BH5 business is getting out of hand

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