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- From: merrark@netcom.com (Mer'rark)
- Subject: Re: Pentium Bridgeboard.....Would you buy one?
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- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 17:09:55 GMT
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- Dave Cinege (dcinege@superlink.net) wrote:
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- : Hah! If you noticed the differenece between the plain board, and the one
- : with CPU and ram is $500.
- : Thats $300 for 16mb, and $200 for the CPU. Thats about dealer price plus
- : enough to pay for shipping. For an $800 retail that would leave me $300 for
- : the board, my profit, and a dealers profit. Hate to break this news to you
- : but the board iself will cost WAY over $300 just to produce. This is not
- : Taiwan and I am not making 10,000 boards at a time. There is no way in
- : hell I can make them for the same price as an over seas mother board.
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- : Maybe $800 with no CPU and ram. But with CPU and ram, unless Intel decides
- : to give me some free, is not going to happen.
-
- That actually might be a good idea. Offer a less epensive no CPU/no RAM
- board for those do it yourself types. I know one friend who's looks for
- bargains on motherboards, CPUs and especially RAM.
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- Mer'rark
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