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Read more.After a recent price hike which has given hope to DRAM makers and left holes in punters' wallets, the prices of RAM will apparently be adjusting themselves for Christmas.
umm i was wondering why a ddr2 4gb ram is double the price of what it was a few months ago!
Good, I've been looking at getting another 6GB set, but the prices were a joke.
Originally Posted by Agent
I nearly had a heart attack when I looked at the prices last week!
I'm getting less RAM in the Vostros from Dell I order for work than I was earlier this year... despite W7 & 64bit... most deals are with 2/3GB - I was getting 4GB in the same price range earlier this year.
Made me laugh, I bought 4GB of RAM earlier in the year for the sake of testing my motherboard (I was convinced it wasn't dodgy RAM but wanted to test), and knew that I'd be getting an HTPC at some point so it wouldn't be wasted.
Now, ironically, it's saved me a fairly large chunk of money on my HTPC build. I was expecting it to be the other way round.
Ebuyer had 12GB of DDR3 1600 going for £150 around 5 months ago now the same kit costs £246, my assumption of "the price will only go down" proved to be wrong.
The prices going up probably cost them sales actually. I was going to buy a 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2-800 kit to upgrade my current Intel C2D system but when I saw the prices had went from $40 to $85 (same price as a DDR3 kit of the same capacity) I changed my mind. That's a lost sale.
If prices drop significantly back to the way they were I would consider that upgrade again.
terrible that the price shot up soo highly. why? whats the point?
Greed?
Deo Adjuvante non Timendum
I kept telling myself that DDR2 prices would fall so I didn't get 4GBs of RAM when they were £35 and then straight after summer they were £60 so I quickly grabbed some Crucial Ballistix Tracers and now they've even gone up to like £80. It's amazing how fast it goes up.
Ditto.
I fancied the upgrade, but not at current prices. I'll wait .... and if need be, simply do without.
*sighs*
I remember the days of £10/GB. I actually got really lucky and happened to decide to get 8GB of Ballistix around a month before prices started to soar again - just a shame I didn't do so well on buying my CPU which plummetted in price a few short weeks after me buying it...
Saved ~£80 on the RAMs but spent almost that extra on the CPU. Ah well, can't have it all.
I can only say thanks to Scan for doing a one-day £130 offer on the Radeon 4890 =P now THAT would have been an absolutely EPIC seller if it had been kept that low...
yup exactly. greed will not get you profits. The only people wishing to buy memory at those insane prices are ones currently building a new pc but anyone actually wishing to do an upgrade wont be.
Had i know this, i would have got a pair of 4gb ram for my HTPC even though i would need a new mobo and cpu but i could always just leave my ram on the side until i afford all the other bits and bobs.
In fairness to the RAM manufacturers, there's not a great deal they can do about it (except Crucial maybe), the semiconductors seriously overproduced DDR2 chips last year and that was why the prices were so ridiculously cheap, so they practically halted DDR2 production and tried to focus on conservative DDR3 production, but apparently they're not getting that right atm either. It's a hard balance to get right, but hopefully they'll have it stabilised for Christmas.
I have recently got Crucial 1333mhz DDR3 2Gb sticks at £20.99, at £83.96 for 8GB I pushed my board to its maximum capacity
A week away from Christmas and prices are still the same. What was the source on this breaking news again? Not very reliable.
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