Has Memory gone up in price a lot recently?

Iirc, i paid £28.00 for one of my 8gb vengeance CL9 kits, (had several in different rigs). Sold them on though as they were terrible for clocking.
 
There have been some nice deals end/start of the year.

My Kingston HyperX Blu 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 cost £39.95 19/12/2012.

My Original G.Skill RipJawsX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz cost £79.19 11/04/2011.
 
Go back around 10-15 years ago and memory at one stage was £1 a megabyte so for 128mb you would have paid £128! So count your selves lucky haha
 
Last year I bought 8GBs of just Corsair XMS for a build I was doing for a friend and it was only about £30 but now, it's risen to £55! Was looking for an upgrade from 4GB but it looks like I'm going to have to wait.
 
damn, knew I should have bought some when they were 65....my evil girlfriend had the nerve to be born around that time of year, so I spent that money on a mechanical keyboard for her instead.

Ok, so I've missed out on that price, but can anyone at OCUK comment on whether we're likely to see them for under £100 for 16GB again? if not then I suppose I'll wait a few months until some decent 8GB modules come about at a decent price!
 
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i remember when there was a deal for some 8gb ram last year for like 23.99 or something.

It does seem RAM has shot up recently, and the SSD price war has stopped, prices seem to be normal and more than they were a few months ago. guess the market has settled.
 
I bought 50 kits of KHX1600C9D3K4/16GX from a competitor for £35.86 on 25/10/12 and I bought some though our usual supplier a couple of days ago for £84 a pack(And that has come down a couple of quid in the last couple of days).. :eek: That's how much it has gone up. Almost as bad as 8Gb Kingston 1600Mhz DDR3 ECC REG that we were paying £35 a module for in Nov and is now £54 a module. When a system has 8 or 16 sticks of that in its a huge increase in overall price for a server/workstation.
 
squarehead94 said:
It does seem RAM has shot up recently, and the SSD price war has stopped, prices seem to be normal and more than they were a few months ago. guess the market has settled.
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Indeed. Some of the Ocuk guys did warn about future rising ram and ssd prices the end of last year (granted they had sales in mind so not totally altruistic) for which they got some unnecessary flak about from some. Ssd's look at least 20% up £/GB on the lows of last year.
 
As most memory is made in South Korea,and the recent bickering between North Korea I supposse it was bount to sooner our later.
 
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