Has Memory gone up in price a lot recently?

RogerMesenseless · 5 May 2013 at 17:41

I've noticed it a lot recently.

For example, I could have bought exactly the same RAM as below (same capacity/speed) for half the price one Month ago. (Not including shipping).

YOUR BASKET
1 x Patriot Venom Red 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (PV38G160C9KRD) £59.99
Total : £68.69 (includes shipping : £7.25).

Surveyor · 5 May 2013 at 17:50

Has Memory gone up in price a lot recently?

Yes.

Memory Price Projection?

RogerMesenseless · 5 May 2013 at 17:55

That's crazy! Thanks.

8 Pack · 5 May 2013 at 18:08

The prices of DDR3 are rising literally by the day yes so your observation is spot on.

Idleman · 5 May 2013 at 18:20

I see OCUK no longer stock Gskill ram any more.

pastymuncher · 5 May 2013 at 18:47

Samsung green has doubled in price. Two months ago i paid £65 for 16Gb. It's that for just 8Gb now.

RogerMesenseless · 5 May 2013 at 19:23

The kit in OP was £56 yesterday.

Buckster · 6 May 2013 at 10:41

pastymuncher said:
Samsung green has doubled in price. Two months ago i paid £65 for 16Gb. It's that for just 8Gb now.

2 months ago ?

come-off it - I'm sure I paid £102 a year ago for 16gb of Samsung

so its not much more

where did you buy 16gb for 65 ?

pgi947 · 6 May 2013 at 12:44

I got 16gb sammy green for £65 too, gibbo had it on offer a few months back.

Buckster · 6 May 2013 at 12:47

4x4 for 65 ? wow

pgi947 · 6 May 2013 at 12:51

Yep a sweet deal that went sour when my motherboard decided to hate it

MonsterMoshi · 6 May 2013 at 13:31

I got all my Kingston HyperX RAM for something like £22 for a set of 8GB. Now its £56!

trickynickyuk · 6 May 2013 at 13:52

Memory has always been the same prices up and down all the time they are still cheaper than last year though

panyan · 6 May 2013 at 14:15

pgi947 said:
I got 16gb sammy green for £65 too, gibbo had it on offer a few months back.

Yep a sweet deal that went sour when my motherboard decided to hate it

My friend got the same deal and has the same issue!

he is running a gigabyte z77 ud5

pgi947 · 6 May 2013 at 15:05

panyan said:
My friend got the same deal and has the same issue!

he is running a gigabyte z77 ud5

From what I understood it was a bios support issue with msi boards (z77 & x79). Tell your friend to try the very latest beta bios, betas are something msi x79 are really lacking unlike giga. It would work fine at stock cl11 1600 1.35v, but any higher required massive amounts of sa/vtt (over 1.3v for 1866 cl11) which defeated the point of having the memory. Now running some ripjawsz 2133 cl9 @ 2404 cl10 with sub 1.2v sa/vtt

setter · 6 May 2013 at 15:08

pgi947 said:
I got 16gb sammy green for £65 too, gibbo had it on offer a few months back.

Paid £65.00 for 8gb of it a few weeks ago. Two weeks prior to that it was going for £37.00 for 8gb. The day i received mine in the post, several kits of it appeared on members market in round the 30 quid mark. Typical lol.

pastymuncher · 6 May 2013 at 18:37

Buckster said:
2 months ago ?

come-off it - I'm sure I paid £102 a year ago for 16gb of Samsung

so its not much more

where did you buy 16gb for 65 ?

Such little faith. Like the others who have already replied, got mine from here as well. I am not in the habit of lying about how much i paid for something.

pgi947 · 6 May 2013 at 20:33

My Order invoice minus VAT: said:
Product Name Price Qty Line Total
Samsung Green 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz 30nm Dual/Quad Channel Kit (MV-3V4G3D/US) £54.98 1 £54.98

Buckster · 6 May 2013 at 20:54

bargain that was then !

pgi947 · 6 May 2013 at 21:15

It was, I actually missed the initial deal (sold out of allocation) but after a few of us begged Gibbo, he put another 30 kits on offer that same evening

I still remember paying ~£70 for 2x4GB Corsair Vengeance CL9 1600 sometime in 2011, they hit an all time low maybe 5 or so months ago, some 2x4GB kits were as low as £24 iirc.