is it me or have memory prices jumped up hugely over the past week or so?
...damn, I was planning on buying some but looks like I could wait and save at least £25...can't belive its gone up so much...
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is it me or have memory prices jumped up hugely over the past week or so?
...damn, I was planning on buying some but looks like I could wait and save at least £25...can't belive its gone up so much...
No, they have jumped in the last couple of weeks.
Now there is a rumour that Micron have had to scrap 10 thousand wafers & you know that won't be good for prices.
" 3-3.5 million 256Mbit equivalent DRAM chips, or about 1-1.5% of global monthly capacity."
http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/Ar...pages=A1&seq=1
This is bad news i was looking to get another 512mb soon too :(
Yeah theres another thread about this somewhere. I went on to komplett the other day to find the 512 stick of TwinMos winbond 3200 was more than £30 what i was expecting :eeK:
This could cause gfx card prices to rise too.....
Aye, I bought 2 x 512MB Twinmos Winbond from komplett a couple of months ago for £107 inc. del, its now over £160.
glad I don't need ram atm.
Aye, I bought 2 x 512MB Twinmos Winbond from komplett in may for about £58 each. Then it was £90 each in september, then it went down again, now its up again. I also remember going away for summer and selling my 32mb sdram hoping to get more with a bit of cash when i get back and prices would have fallen. Did they fall? Hell no. :( So this aint the first memory price hike.
P.S. Sorry for nicking half your post. But it fits :)
hehe, np. I was a bit out with the price after looking at the reciept.
http://ninjagecko.sytes.net/Jigga/al...mal_Image3.jpg
£111 inc.:D
gosh, darn it, my this vexes me so, i shall have at thee for this you worthless money wasting companies, you shall not create worthless goods and expect us to ffot the bill, you ugly dogs!...[and other such olde world sayings no longer used except in times of severe frustration where swearing just wouldn't work...]...
would this make now a good time to sell ram then? how much would the pc3200 twinmos stick from tekheads lucky dip be worth (costed £20 inc)?
lol, thats a really detailed article aint it ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by BUFF
Just bought some mushkin lv II black for £200inc. Saw them for £230 a while back and £260 before that.
Glad I bought some second hand 512MB memory then :)
And my Radeon 9800Pro :):)
building some pc's for my uncle at the moment ordered some ram on monday. before lunch 512mb 3200twinmos was around £54, after lunch it was way up, like £73!! so got it from ocuk in the end!
A few people have been saying they have jumped...they certainly are not coming down any time soon :o
I got a bargain off ebay - 1GB of hyper-x pc4000 for £140! Very chuffed with that one :)
just as im about to buy some
The reason is some manafacturer botched a load of wafers :( hence less availabilty so the price goes up :( :(
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 !!
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 :(Quote:
Originally Posted by megatron
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.
*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