memory hike!

[steve threlfall]

The reason is some manafacturer botched a load of wafers hence less availabilty so the price goes up

[CrapshoT]

me strokes my 512mb of OCZ ram bought for £62 off some other forums the other week just before the ram prices rose had it up to 222 fsb @ 11-3-3-2.5 with my 2500xp @1.85v temps get a bit high for my liking tho !!

[megatron]

I don't believe that wafer thing. This happened before when I bought my first pc. One week crucial ram was something silly like £35 per 256Mb and then it shot up to £60. I bought some pc2100 512Mb stick from a local shop for £72, and even they were putting prices up next day. The taiwanese companies who hold a monopoly on dram production were found to have artificially bumped the prices up by gathering together and agreeing to hold back supply!

[steve threlfall]

I don't believe that wafer thing. This happened before when I bought my first pc. One week crucial ram was something silly like £35 per 256Mb and then it shot up to £60. I bought some pc2100 512Mb stick from a local shop for £72, and even they were putting prices up next day. The taiwanese companies who hold a monopoly on dram production were found to have artificially bumped the prices up by gathering together and agreeing to hold back supply!

Sounds likely. Either way memory has skyrocketed and theres not a lot we can do about it. Just gona have to wait

[unrealrocks]

Yeah - RAM prices go in cycles.

Too much RAM - Production slows
Prices drop
Prices drop
Not enough RAM
Prices rise
Production is increased
Prices stabalise

It happens every few years, some of you might remember around 10 years ago, people would rather than steal the PC, just steal the RAM.

[Zak33]

*polite subtle cough*

Err.....could we have this in General Discussion cos its not really a Bargain hunt.....not strictly.

Cheers peeps...moving it now