Memory Prices Rising Steeply (I think)

As I've said before in other posts, fill those slots, buy your memory while it's cheap.

A lot peeps has said it's overkill upgrading to 16gb, but if prices rise steeply, I know I can sell 8gb & still make a profit.:D
 
Looks like a bit of a jump... cheapest 8GB 1600mhz kit now the Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB at £34.99, and at least £39.99 for 'premium' RAM.
 
I can honestly say, ive never seen memory so cheap. When i built my rig in sig. I bought 6gb of ocz reaper 7-7-7-24 ram. It cost £160.00. A few weeks ago, i upgraded to 12gb of kingston hyper x, 9-9-9-27. It cost £60.00, yes the timings are a bit slower, but tbh it's not something your gonna notice in everyday use.
 
This happened with DDR2 and people were like "you don't need 4gb, 2gb is fine" etc. DDR2 was at a point where you could also pick 2x2gb for cheap, and then it eventually rose...and rose....and rose as DDR3 took over. I remember buying some low latency quality ddr2 2x512mb for about £150-200 I'm sure. This will happen again. Memory market is volatile and prices can only go one way now for ddr3. People will look back at these times when DDR3 was £60 for 16gb in a year or so thinking, why did I not buy another 8gb then as now I have to spend a ton to upgrade to 16gb.

16gb is unecessary for the majority...now...but it never hurts to have some spare at these prices.
 
setter said:
I can honestly say, ive never seen memory so cheap. When i built my rig in sig. I bought 6gb of ocz reaper 7-7-7-24 ram. It cost £160.00. A few weeks ago, i upgraded to 12gb of kingston hyper x, 9-9-9-27. It cost £60.00, yes the timings are a bit slower, but tbh it's not something your gonna notice in everyday use.
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Same, I got my original OCZ 6GB Platinum kit for around £170 when I first went i7 but bought 24GB of Corsair LP for £93 a couple of weeks ago.
 
Just recently picked up another 8GB of vengeance off the MM for £30, so very happy, had a feeling the prices might shoot up again.

The first 8GB of vengeance I got in may cost me around £70, about where the prices will be again in a few weeks/months.
 
jaybee said:
This happened with DDR2 and people were like "you don't need 4gb, 2gb is fine" etc. DDR2 was at a point where you could also pick 2x2gb for cheap, and then it eventually rose...and rose....and rose as DDR3 took over. I remember buying some low latency quality ddr2 2x512mb for about £150-200 I'm sure. This will happen again. Memory market is volatile and prices can only go one way now for ddr3. People will look back at these times when DDR3 was £60 for 16gb in a year or so thinking, why did I not buy another 8gb then as now I have to spend a ton to upgrade to 16gb.

16gb is unecessary for the majority...now...but it never hurts to have some spare at these prices.
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I think there are differences though, most people were very close to the 2GB threshold back then even if they didn't "need" more than 2GB at the time. Nowadays things are different, very few people are anywhere close to using 8GB, a large part of which is down to many applications (especially games) running in 32bit mode and not being able to address more than 2GB per app. Also chances are if people did need more than 8GB then 12GB would likely be sufficient rather than needing to go all the way up to 16GB.

If I was building a system today I'd put 8GB in it, by the time I need more than 8GB chances are I'd be looking to move to a new architecture anyway. As you point out, the big rise in DDR2 prices was largely fueled by the launch of DDR3; if DDR4 were to come out and drive up DDR3 prices then I'd probably be moving to a DDR4 platform within a couple of years (before 8GB limit was hit) anyway.

Obviously, for people who do a lot of image/video editing, multitasking etc, then clearly there are gains from more memory, but for the majority I think 8GB is likely to be plenty for a while to come.
 
Have been tempted to replace my Kingston HyperX Blu 16gb with something lower voltage as there are rated for 1.65V at 1600Mhz.

Waste of time, or should I go for it? I know they will run at lower voltage (less than 1.55), but wondering if lower voltage stuff will be necessary for Ivy Bridge.
 
nshire said:
I think I may get another 8gb corsair LP white stuff while its cheap!
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I see from your sig that you now have 16Gb of the Corsair LP White. Are you still able to run them on 1.35V or did you have to raise the voltage?

I ask as I may pull the trigger on 16GB of the Black LP stuff but if I can buy 2 sets of 8Gb Whites and run them on 1.35V then I may do that instead.
 
dunno said:
I see from your sig that you now have 16Gb of the Corsair LP White. Are you still able to run them on 1.35V or did you have to raise the voltage?

I ask as I may pull the trigger on 16GB of the Black LP stuff but if I can buy 2 sets of 8Gb Whites and run them on 1.35V then I may do that instead.
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I have 16GB of the Corsair LP Arctic White XMP 9-9-9-24 values at 1600MHz, 1.35V.

All working fine at their XMP settings at 1.35v.


These are the ones I have

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=my-311-cs&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517



also do note only the arctic white ones run at 1.35v, the black at 1.50v and same with the blue ones at 1.50v.


corsair announces vengeance low profile high-performance ddr3 memory kits

http://www.corsair.com/pressrelease...low-profile-high-performance-ddr3-memory-kits

http://www.techpowerup.com/146633/c...rofile-high-performance-ddr3-memory-kits.html
 
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