DDR3 prices

[Van Diemen]

Bagged myself a cheap Asus Maximus Extreme & then nearly had a heart attack when I saw the price of DDR3. Just one question, when will prices start to come down?

 

[helmutcheese]

When AMD use it and it becomes mainstream, same as when they made a boob and brought out AM2 instead of staying with 939.

 

[w3bbo]

Hence why I aint going to ddr3 yet lol. The prices aint that bad really, its just the ridiculously low ddr2 prices in comparison that makes switching to ddr3 foolhardy at this moment in time given the very little increase in useable performance it offers - great bandwidth but poor timings cancel out the benifits imo.

 

[Azza]

Hence why I aint going to ddr3 yet lol. The prices aint that bad really, its just the ridiculously low ddr2 prices in comparison that makes switching to ddr3 foolhardy at this moment in time given the very little increase in useable performance it offers - great bandwidth but poor timings cancel out the benifits imo.

Indeed.


DDR3 isnt expensive its just that DDR2 is silly cheap.

 

[weescott]

DDR3 is expensive relativly speaking. I paid £230 for top of the range PC3500 back in the day. Where to get good DDR3 will cost roughly twice as much.

And how the heck has AMD got anything to do with it? lmao!

 

[Bikerz]

u can get a set of alright ddr3 for £230 now

 

[helmutcheese]

I paid £370 months ago for high end 4GB Mushkin DDR2 so its not that bad. (it was though).

 

[Reality|Bites]

Back in the days of DDR and BH-5 2 x 512MB of Corsair XMS3500LL would cost you £270 or there abouts.

 

[HangTime]

DDR3 IS 'expensive'; the historical price of memory doesn't really matter, it's the current price of substitute goods (DDR2) which does.

The terms 'expensive' and 'cheap' are basically just opposite ends of a comparison spectrum anyway. We only think of a product as being cheap or expensive based on comparisons with comprable products in any case.

 

[Van Diemen]

^^^ yeh, what he said.

I remember paying £300 for 2Gb kit of OCZ Titanium last year (ouch). RAM prices have dropped considerably & even though DDR3 is new, I'm sure production costs are not that much higher than of DDR2, but the price does not reflect that, especially here in the UK.

example:
UK price http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-107-OC&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=923

USA price http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3495742&CatId=3361

thats a 40% + price difference

 

[Reality|Bites]

You still have to add the State tax onto that price as well.

 

[Nelly]

Just stick with DDR2, can get 2x2gb of G.Skill PC2-8000 for around £90.

Equivelant in DDR3 will set you back around £500 LOL! - Rip off.