http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_in...ducts_id=100916

hoorah and the rest. Finally Rip off britain gets something fairly cheap. etc.

Anyways, just a heads up. I'd buy one if I wasn't poor.

Maybe I can convince 7day that this is advertisement and they'll give me one free?

Yay! Fuck 4gb ones, I'll just get like 8 of these for the same price

I feel less than secure about buying no-brand 2gig SD cards for 18 GBPs.

I used to consider PQI a no brand but they've all been reliable for me in the last two years. In the U.S., they're selling 4gb 133x for US$89 as a regular price. 4gb 150x are US$99. This is around June 2006. when they go on sale, they go down another 10-15%. ...and this is in-store. ... not even counting online.

Check the reviews some dude said he uses it with his GP2X

I bought in some cheap SD cards and noticed they tend to fall apart quite easily and die suddenly, but at these prices who really cares...

I have a 2GB 133x PQI and its very good.

Any great deals like this for the US?

see the best deals topic. You can pick up a 4gb sd for around 50 bucks now.

Oh, Thanks .

well, i think you should hang fire for a bit, i bought one this week, received it today, managed to format it once, now windows wont even read the card, cant reformat.

i know its the card, cos the one i use for the ds work like a dream, so mine will be giong back on monday

@Whiskthecat: Look at www.pricewatch.com

Amazon also have a very good deal.

^^ I bought that one on monday

£10 isn't bad for a 1gb card

I like there's second hand stuff though...

New price: £10.29
Used from: £10.26

What a saving!!

Are there any problems streaming video off these cheap cards?

I have a cheap (kingmax or something??) card and a sandisk (both 1GB) and I think I found the cheaper one meant juddery video..

Then again I think I've seen juddery video off the sandisk one as well.

Maybe if you've been playing games and then try to play video, the ram get's fragmented and that affects it?

(Note this was just playing a lost.torrent episode - so 720x480 or something).

Kev

RAM is solid state memory. It has no seek time so fragmentation is not an issue. What is however, is the clockspeed. Press Y to adjust it in the video player. Also I believe that this card is the standard speed. I don't actually know what it is but unless you SanDisk one is on of their Ultra II or what ever they are called. Then they should be the same speed.

The sandisk one isn't an ultra2, but I thought there were various different speeds of SD - definitely writing to the sandisk one is faster(!) than the cheap one.

So these defragging memory tools you can use on PCs, just defrag virtual memory?

Will press 'Y' in the video player and see what that does then - thanks

Kev

SD comes in speeds of 50x and below to 150x and above. Check the speed when you're buying a card, that cheap one might not be a good deal.

If they don't state the speed assume it is the slowest they can make (thus the cheap prices). I'd not be suprised if they are under 50x (compared to 150x on a decent card). So it is likely that they won't play movies very well.

Lol, they don't mark speeds on any of the cards they sell in Wal-Mart. I bought the first 512mb SD card that they priced under $40 (Low Prices Always, HA) because I didn't really want to wait for shipping. Speed wasn't marked on that, and it plays movies just fine.

Exactly - that's what I found.
Unfortunately it's difficult to figure out the speed if they don't tell you (until you've bought it) as so many SDs are rebadged others (same with CFs we use at work).

Kev

Kingmax 2GB Secure Digital @ Dabs

This might interest some of you, it has a 66x speed quoted and is only a little more expensive at £21.98.

Cannibal.

just got mine delivered yesterday, they say made by KeyMem 133X so definatly no 50 speeds' they work fine for vid and emulation

Has anyone else bought the 7dayshop card? Does it work well with the GP2x? How's the speed?

I have to break in my new credit card, but I don't want to buy it if it's pants.

Opinions?

"just got mine delivered yesterday, they say made by KeyMem 133X so definatly no 50 speeds' they work fine for vid and emulation "

Regarding the Kingmax ones from Dabs, the customer reviews seem to say they are actually 150x. Will let you know when mine arrives.

Yeah the Dabs ones are 150x Kingmax, works great.