News - Price of DDR2 shoots up

**HEXUS** · 23-12-2008, 01:53 PM

A major reduction in output is reversing the downward pressure on DDR2 price caused by oversupply.

**miniyazz** · 23-12-2008, 03:26 PM

What exactly does it mean by "spot price of around $1.80 for DDR2 667Mhz 1Gb"? Clearly the price of a 1GB stick of RAM has never been that low.

**CK159** · 23-12-2008, 04:10 PM

I'm assuming they mean 1 Gbit chips

so ~$2 per chip*8=~$16/GB

**TAKTAK** · 23-12-2008, 04:25 PM

Originally Posted by miniyazz

What exactly does it mean by "spot price of around $1.80 for DDR2 667Mhz 1Gb"? Clearly the price of a 1GB stick of RAM has never been that low.

it refers to the chips that you can see on the RAM:

eg:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...M_DDR2_512.jpg

on this you can see 8, the spot price increase affects each chip on it, so the price increases overall
so instead of $0.58*8 it's now $0.74*8

**miniyazz** · 23-12-2008, 04:31 PM

Originally Posted by TAKTAK

it refers to the chips that you can see on the RAM:

eg:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...M_DDR2_512.jpg

on this you can see 8, so the spot price increase affect each chip on it, so the price increases overall

Ah right, thanks

**The Jambo** · 23-12-2008, 05:15 PM

Just ordered myself an additional 4GB (to make 8GB total) or OCZ DDR2 ram for £35 before it gets expensive.

Not bad, running at 1100MHz

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**pepsi_max2k** · 30-12-2008, 12:44 PM

Play.com currently doing a stick of 2GB PNY PC2-6400 for £11.99. What are the chances of getting anything else that low in 2009? I might buy some even though I'll have nothing to stick it in for 6 months

**baius** · 06-01-2009, 11:18 AM

Originally Posted by pepsi_max2k

Play.com currently doing a stick of 2GB PNY PC2-6400 for £11.99.

That's amazing.

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