Ram pricing

Devrij · 2 Mar 2018 at 20:50

That would be great. Hopefully it'll force samsung to increase production faster with the threat of losing market share.

4K8KW10 · 20 Mar 2018 at 17:34

It gets ridiculous.
Some authorities on a global level must sue that sad corporation Samsung for so many damages against the humankind :mad:

Criminal negligence.

Bad news for those feeling the brunt of higher priced NAND Flash products like SSDs, RAM and Graphics cards. A power outage estimated to be for over 30 minutes at the Pyeongtaek fabrication plant in South Korea owned by Samsung has slowed production and damaged tens of thousands of processed wafers. The aforementioned issue happened on March the 9th according to Taiwan based TechNews that cites further South Korean reports.

Bad News For GPU, SSD, RAM and other NAND Based Products
The report claims that the outage damaged 50,000 to 60,000 of wafers with V-NAND flash memory this represents 11% of the total monthly output for Samsung. he report further estimates that the said amount equates to approximately 3.5% of global NAND output, but does not elaborate whether it means wafer output or bit output.
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Power Outage at Samsung Fab Destroyed Over 3% of Global NAND Flash Output in March Won’t Help GPU Prices https://wccftech.com/power-outage-a...d-flash-output-in-march-wont-help-gpu-prices/

willhub · 21 Mar 2018 at 12:37

I really want 16GB DDR3 but it's just too expensive and sellers on FB just mess me about

Doogles · 21 Mar 2018 at 18:29

willhub said:
I really want 16GB DDR3 but it's just too expensive and sellers on FB just mess me about

Get on MM, next month Ryzen refresh will be released making many owners of DDR3 finally jump.

willhub · 21 Mar 2018 at 18:38

Doogles said:
Get on MM, next month Ryzen refresh will be released making many owners of DDR3 finally jump.

Will that bring great CPU speed at good price, as in much better than my 4820K and 12gb ram and mobo I got for £250? I might make the jump then.

Doogles · 21 Mar 2018 at 18:56

willhub said:
Will that bring great CPU speed at good price, as in much better than my 4820K and 12gb ram and mobo I got for £250? I might make the jump then.

Depends what you do, it'll probably be around 4.5ghz overclocked and 8c/16t with decent IPC, we'll wait and see how it turns out but it'll sure as hell beat my 3570k!

willhub · 21 Mar 2018 at 18:56

I just game really.

Devrij · 25 Mar 2018 at 08:47

willhub said:
I just game really.

In the short term, probably not a big gain then. Give it another year or two.

FloatingPoint · 2 Jun 2018 at 18:40

Just got two sticks of 512Mb PC3200 for 10p each to add to an old system that I’m keeping as it has IDE and SATA on the board.
Considering the complexity of what they are and what I paid for the same stuff when it was new it seems quite bonkers, RAM is possibly the most depreciative product ever created?

shamus21 · 6 Jun 2018 at 14:51

FloatingPoint said:
Just got two sticks of 512Mb PC3200 for 10p each to add to an old system that I’m keeping as it has IDE and SATA on the board.
Considering the complexity of what they are and what I paid for the same stuff when it was new it seems quite bonkers, RAM is possibly the most depreciative product ever created?

All industries go though phases like this, it is just that the chip business push their luck until the powers that be clamp down. It`s a rigged market.

rn123 · 11 Jun 2018 at 12:20

Ram, GPU's, they will all stay high for as long as possible. Some other disaster will hit soon enough which causes shortages, as you say, its a rigged game.