*nods in agreement*
whats up with ram prices
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*nods in agreement*
I second it!
I am doing a new build and want some decent RAM for the gigabyte X58-UD5 but to get a 6GB kit I need to almost re-morgage my house lol
Ram is going up aswell as the falling £>$ rate, but look on the bright side you could sell your current memory at double what you paid for it then wait for it to come back down and buy better/double the amount back
Maybe thats the future! Play the RAM market instead of the stock market
And the rest... "quality" 4GB DDR3 kits atm seems to be between £140 and £180.
I watch the 'bay closely, and all the 4gig kits have been fetching £100 almost without fail over the last week or so. That's 2nd-hand
You'd be lucky to get anything but bargain basement RAM for £100 (per 4 gig) at the moment.
Which is why no company is getting any cash out of me until RAM prices go down to sensible levels (£60 tops for 4GB) - until then I'm sticking to my 775 PC and AMD fileserver and 4850
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sell ddr2, buy ddr3. it doesnt work out that expensive.
remember while the ddr3 prices are up, so are the ddr2 prices
remember while the ddr3 prices are up, so are the ddr2 prices
Aye, having lots of stock sat in a warehouse costs money and can be a major liability if it doesn't shift as fast as you'd like* (whilst you've got something not selling in a warehouse it's tying up both cash and space that could be better used on other stuff).
Not to mention cases are bulky and relatively low value compared to what could be stored there (a £50 case takes up the same sort of room as potentially several tens of thousands of pounds of CPU's).
As my old man puts it "better to have small amounts of stock moving quickly, than lots of stock doing nothing"
What's worrying me a bit as a consumer at the moment, is that the pound has dropped under $1.5, so everything is getting more expensive.
*One of the reasons I suspect some large chains in many areas are/have had trouble, is due to their stock sitting there losing value month on month.
Completely unknowingly, I ended up with really good upgrade plans for ram and system upgrades.
I started out with going from S939 + DDR1 to DDR2 using a cheap £60 P35 motherboard and E8400, and bought 4x1 Gb modules at first which were cheaper at the time than 2 Gb modules. Then when 2 Gb module prices came down, I bought some OCZ 2x2 Gb 800 Mhz modules. Following that, after the top end DDR2 modules called the OCZ Flex II were at £99, I bought a kit and sold my 800 Mhz ones.
Next, I moved up to an MSI X48c motherboard with 2 DDR2 slots, and 4 DDR3 slots. At first DDR3 ram prices were far too expensive and I kept my Flex IIs. But after a while, 2x2 Gb of cheap 1333 Mhz crucial kits went down in price, but I cant recall how much they were. I managed to sell the Flex II kit (and my earlier ram kits and the P35 mobo) all at the same price I had initially paid for them and moved up to DDR3.
Then after X58 came out, I were first looking to see if I could get 8 Gb of ram for cheap for my X48 due to price cuts on older high voltage dual channel kits. However, I found the Patriot 3x2 Gb kits for £85 which were much better priced than anything else, which tempted me to buy two of them, and upgrade to an X58 setup. I splashed out quite a bit on the X58 and I7 CPU going much over my usual upgrade + sell budget, but the ram was cheap, and then ofc I found the geil sticks as already mentioned.
The only thing that really cost me a lot in my current build was the Mobo and CPU, the rest was obtained like this by selling any buying new after finding offers and price cuts (Ram, Graphics Cards and Hard Drives all cost me very little to upgrade by selling my previous ones).
The next stuff I want (Rampage III Extreme + I7-970) are again pushing the budget much further than I normally do, which seems to be the case with the motherboard and CPU, but by continously selling my old parts like this, I manage to save up enough to afford nicer stuff a few components at a time
.I try to teach friends relatives how to use ebay to afford computer upgrades like this as well, but most of them cant be bothered to do so. People look at what I have and keep on buying, and cant believe how I can afford it, so I tell them simply by using ebay and shopping around for good prices
.Just buy stuff when the prices are lower rather than buying whole upgrades at once, and it saves you a lot more money.
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Yes, but many of us did not go down the DDR3 775 route, meaning that in order to move from 775 to i5 we need RAM, CPU and MB.
And while CPU and MB prices are better now, there is no way in hell I'm paying current DDR3 prices - I refuse to spend £100+ on RAM that should actually only cost £60 now.
And while CPU and MB prices are better now, there is no way in hell I'm paying current DDR3 prices - I refuse to spend £100+ on RAM that should actually only cost £60 now.
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yeah, which is what you implied you wanted to do anyway.
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anyway,3 years ago my abit ip35 pro and 4gb of Geil pc6400 cost me £185. 2 weeks ago, my Asus M4A89 GTD pro usb3 + 4gb of G.Skill ddr3 ddr1600 cost me...£178.
and we complain about prices?
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prices are bad at the moment i wanted to move 3x2gb ddr3 from 2x2gb ddr3 but theres no way i can reason it now with prices
And the rest... "quality" 4GB DDR3 kits atm seems to be between £140 and £180.
I watch the 'bay closely, and all the 4gig kits have been fetching £100 almost without fail over the last week or so. That's 2nd-hand
You'd be lucky to get anything but bargain basement RAM for £100 (per 4 gig) at the moment.
People who buy so called "quality" 4GB DDR3 kits for £140-£180 need their heads checking. I'd be willing to bet money if you didn't know what memory was in a system you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a £100 set or a vastly overpriced Corsair GT kit
A comparison between memory prices from 8th September last year. Just over 20 quid before VAT.
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got mine in december, when prices were beginning to climb for £71, low voltage edition were £76. OC dont do my sticks any more, but the low voltage ones are now £110.
i feel so smug
completely different to my psu. i picked it up in store, got home to find that the 600w version had literally just been put in the this week only for the same price i had just paid for my 500w. Only realised that after id unboxed and installed it :/
ya win some and ya lose some...
i feel so smug
completely different to my psu. i picked it up in store, got home to find that the 600w version had literally just been put in the this week only for the same price i had just paid for my 500w. Only realised that after id unboxed and installed it :/
ya win some and ya lose some...
I paid £32.24 for a Corsair 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 XMS2 DHX Memory Kit way back in July 08. It's double that now (£64.99). I wanted to wait out for Win7 and then do a big memory upgrade to about 6-8GB which would be around now. Wish I had just bought two of the kits like I was originally going to do.
Wish I had just bought two of the kits like I was originally going to do.
As a general rule of thumb I believe if you can get the 'standard' amount of decent quality RAM for a computer at any given time for under £100 then things aren't too bad. At the moment 4GB is standard so prices need to rise a bit more before it starts getting out of hand.
People may turn their noses up at paying £100 for memory bearing in mind you could get away with spending around half that a year or two back, but if you compare to the cost of other components (CPU, Mobo, Gfx card, Monitor, SSD etc) it is not really that outlandish a price.
The only thing I find slightly surprising is that the cost of hard drives has continued to fall, with 2TB drives now down to little more than a ton.
People may turn their noses up at paying £100 for memory bearing in mind you could get away with spending around half that a year or two back, but if you compare to the cost of other components (CPU, Mobo, Gfx card, Monitor, SSD etc) it is not really that outlandish a price.
The only thing I find slightly surprising is that the cost of hard drives has continued to fall, with 2TB drives now down to little more than a ton.
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it makes me laugh i bought 2x2gb sticks of corsair ddr3 for 73 quid with out vat and the same ram but 2x1gb sticks are the same price now. i think ram prices are gonna hold people back from i7 systems for a while untill ram drops back down to a reasonable price
Why should we not turn our noses, DDR3 is not new technology and yet prices for it have risen over time instead of falling (you would expect things to start expensive and then get cheaper)