whats up with ram prices

as daft as it may sound it is making me a little hesitent to upgrade at the moment, but there is no sign of it coming back down. Might have to just pay to extra needed:(
 
^^because RAM was 'underpriced' for a while. If you look at the history of the RAM market, it is traditionally by far the most volatile when it comes to pricing out of all components. It's not the first time we've seen mature technology get a price hike when it comes to memory, and in fact I wasn't surprised it's gone back the other way because it had got to the stage where the 'normal' amount of memory was only costing like £60.

Things did start expensive and got cheaper for DDR3. It used to be what, £200+ for a 2GB kit? Then it dropped down as you expected, but then because it's RAM prices fluctuated up again. That's what happens with memory, you get these periods where it gets more expensive, it doesn't follow a hard and fast rule.

Good example here from 2006 (posts prior to that have been nuked): http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17623644
As you can see people were quite happy paying well over £100 for the 'normal' amount of RAM at the time (2GB).
 
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I bought 2gb of ocz gold e3dition 800mhz, for 22 pounds, then about 6 months later it was the same price so bought some more (4gb). Now that would be setting you back about 100 quid!, its insane!
 
widnesjohn said:
but is the price of ddr3 going up more or is it gonna drop soon i can probily wait till the end of summer
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I can't wait, *not as in, overtly excited, but as in panic. lol. I'm borrowing a cheap laptop sold to its owner in 2006, it's slow, sluggish and can JUST about handle internet; trying to load & play youtube vids is very temperamental. The laptop is well overdue to be returned to its rightful owner - all the while because I have no PC. So of course I'm going to HAVE to buy RAM at whatever price it's at. Very annoying. Oh well. I'll just have to hope the price goes sky-high when I come to sell it off, but I think Nvidia will be the sole graphics producers by that time & the 2030 Olympics will once again be back in China. :p
 
Personally I doubt DDR3 will go above £150 for a cheap 4GB kit but that is just my gut feeling based on the typical price of memory at any given point over the last decade rather than actually based on any kind of facts or industry knowledge.

I think the key point is that the high-end stuff (PC16000+ or CAS7) may shoot up in price due to low yields but if you NEED to buy memory at any given point in time you can always go for some cheapy PC10666 CAS9 stuff which I doubt will get too extreme price wise. And the performance benefit of faster memory, for the vast majority of people, is fairly minimal (certainly 4GB of cheap DDR3 is way better than 2GB of posh stuff).
 
****** stupid now...

I paid 80quid for 6gb of good ocz ram (tri channel) like last summer... 160 now.

Moving to mitx I'd need 2x4gb (as 4gb just isnt enough for me tbh and with only 2 ram slots..) 400 quid? FOR HUNDRED POUNDS?
 
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4gb of 1600mhz ram can still be got for the equivelant of £65 in America.

The prices haven't gone up, the UK is just getting ripped off as usual and we take it bending over backwards as usual.
 
nitram100 said:
4gb of 1600mhz ram can still be got for the equivelant of £65 in America.

The prices haven't gone up, the UK is just getting ripped off as usual and we take it bending over backwards as usual.
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get it imported, not everything is spotted and its probably worth the risk.

i got a DLPprojector through a lot cheaper :)
 
HangTime said:
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.
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That only really holds up if you bought at least an i3/phenom for cpu, and at least a 5770, etc.

My CPU was £60, my gfx was £60 (2nd hand tho, doesn't count I guess), and my motherboard was £65.

So £100 for RAM *is* a bit much. Given that you can't really get away with 2gb RAM anymore.
 
nitram100 said:
4gb of 1600mhz ram can still be got for the equivelant of £65 in America.

The prices haven't gone up, the UK is just getting ripped off as usual and we take it bending over backwards as usual.
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Exchange rate at time of production/trading.
 
corsair ram aint much cheaper in the US you might save 30 or 40 quid but thats not including shiping and import tax so there aint much difference
 
bhavv said:
Is it just me or do prices look like they have gone up even more now?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-201-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1392

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-184-OC&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1387

These prices are flipping lolburgers on the thermi grills.
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You have to wonder how much longer these ludicrous prices will persist for.

(Or should that be, "You have to wonder for how much longer these prices will persist?" I forget.)
 
thingemajib said:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-165-OC&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

im pretty sure these werent there yesterday, but if any do magically restock themselves, im defo getting a pair. only 8 quid more than what i paid for the ones im using now.

giving the fact they're only 3 months old i could probably make a profit...
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Not saying this is an example, but you know a lot of retailers have what I call "google specials". They're never in stock, and they're priced really low.

It seems the sole purpose of these products is to find their way into price comparison search results, such as Google Shopping. But you can never actually buy any.
 
hmm ... i guess so. did seem a bit odd when they popped up already out of stock...

when i was mobo shopping, i had eyes on a gigabyte 790gx one, which a swear was vapourware...
 
HangTime said:
^^because RAM was 'underpriced' for a while. If you look at the history of the RAM market, it is traditionally by far the most volatile when it comes to pricing out of all components. It's not the first time we've seen mature technology get a price hike when it comes to memory, and in fact I wasn't surprised it's gone back the other way because it had got to the stage where the 'normal' amount of memory was only costing like £60.

Things did start expensive and got cheaper for DDR3. It used to be what, £200+ for a 2GB kit? Then it dropped down as you expected, but then because it's RAM prices fluctuated up again. That's what happens with memory, you get these periods where it gets more expensive, it doesn't follow a hard and fast rule.

Good example here from 2006 (posts prior to that have been nuked): http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17623644
As you can see people were quite happy paying well over £100 for the 'normal' amount of RAM at the time (2GB).
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There is no reason why RAM prices should be any more volatile than other things
 
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