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To: Scumbria who wrote (75595)	3/6/1999 2:12:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls	Respond to of 186894

I don't get it. The same site shows the CPU alone selling for $700. The computer maker is buying parts in quantity in the high-volume, low-margin business of selling entire boxes and aren't marking that individual component up much. The retail CPU seller is in a low-volume, high-margin business and is marking the chip up out his @ss. Besides, the P-III prices are already dropping. Now only $681 from Dynasty Express. pricewatch.com@ctd+3+AND+@contents+PENTIUM+AND+@contents+III+AND+@contents+500*&catd=3&cn=Microprocessors+PC&cr=Microprocessors+PC+Pentium+III+500&n=33&CiCodePage=Windows-1252&a=2 BTW, Dynasty Express is a good shop. I've bought a Socket-7 ATX board, a Slot-1 ATX board (P2B), an AMD P-II-233, a Celeron-300A, and a 64 Meg SDRAM from them in two orders. The P2B needed a BIOS upgrade to work with the Celeron, which the customer support person immediately diagnosed on the phone (Fry's Electronics diagnosed a bad motherboard). The Lucky-Goldstar SDRAM stick was bad and they cross-shipped me a new one with no hassle on their UPS shipping account number. The only drawback is that they're in Alabama and I'm in Arizona so the shipping takes a couple of days longer than for a California firm.