Two or three months ago memory began getting tight. More and more devices are using it from toys to toasters. Then came Mother Nature in the form of an earthquake in Taiwan. Long story short memory prices have climbed to unbelievable heights and are changing daily. Taiwan says they are looking at 2 or 3 months to get back to normal production and this in a market that was already becoming memory anemic.
Lets move on to another topic close to our hearts, mother boards.
It probably will come as no suprise to a number of people that Intel is having its share of problems lately. This new design is not the old socket 7 or super socket 7 motherboard but a higher pin count of basically the same design called the socket 370 board. It has been reported in the trades that a new version of the Celeron will be released soon, this one with the Pentium III core design. Most knowledgeable distributors and consumers are approaching these changes very gingerly hoping the problems will settle down. With the limited availability of the BX Boards , the problems of the 810 chip set, the problems with the new design of the 820 set and memory, pricing on available working motherboards seems to be climbing also.