but is the price of ddr3 going up more or is it gonna drop soon i can probily wait till the end of summer
4gb of 1600mhz ram can still be got for the equivelant of £65 in America.
The prices haven't gone up, the UK is just getting ripped off as usual and we take it bending over backwards as usual.
People may turn their noses up at paying £100 for memory bearing in mind you could get away with spending around half that a year or two back, but if you compare to the cost of other components (CPU, Mobo, Gfx card, Monitor, SSD etc) it is not really that outlandish a price.
4gb of 1600mhz ram can still be got for the equivelant of £65 in America.
The prices haven't gone up, the UK is just getting ripped off as usual and we take it bending over backwards as usual.
Is it just me or do prices look like they have gone up even more now?
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-201-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1392
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-184-OC&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1387
These prices are flipping lolburgers on the thermi grills.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-165-OC&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517
im pretty sure these werent there yesterday, but if any do magically restock themselves, im defo getting a pair. only 8 quid more than what i paid for the ones im using now.
giving the fact they're only 3 months old i could probably make a profit...
^^because RAM was 'underpriced' for a while. If you look at the history of the RAM market, it is traditionally by far the most volatile when it comes to pricing out of all components. It's not the first time we've seen mature technology get a price hike when it comes to memory, and in fact I wasn't surprised it's gone back the other way because it had got to the stage where the 'normal' amount of memory was only costing like £60.
Things did start expensive and got cheaper for DDR3. It used to be what, £200+ for a 2GB kit? Then it dropped down as you expected, but then because it's RAM prices fluctuated up again. That's what happens with memory, you get these periods where it gets more expensive, it doesn't follow a hard and fast rule.
Good example here from 2006 (posts prior to that have been nuked): http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17623644
As you can see people were quite happy paying well over £100 for the 'normal' amount of RAM at the time (2GB).