whats up with ram prices

Managed to sell off a Geil BD stuff a while back and replace with 2 4Gb HyperX kits.
I'm good for a while but when I upgrade to DDR3 I hope the prices are a bit more wallet friendly
 
yep ram prices are a total joke at the moment i paid about 64 pounds for 2x2 gig sticks of corsair xms3 1333mhz back in august and the same memory is 110 pounds now.
 
After reading this thread, I looked up how much I paid for Geil Value Dual Channel Kit 2G x 2, DDR3-1600 (8-8-8-28) purchased 12 months ago at £62, the cheapest I can see it for now is £97. I have had my eye on another set at £72 for several months but did not trust the vendor, some chap in a market stall. Well it looks like I’ll be picking them up tomorrow.

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Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-UD5P, 955 BE(C2)@3.77GHz 1.45V, Geil Value 4GB DDR3-1600,
ATI 5850 1GB, CM90 II Advanced, 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black, 4 HDDs, Jeantech Storm 700w,
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It may not be relevant this time, but Asian factory explosions can be accounted for too. I bought a 512MB stick DDR1 in Nov 2001 for £55. Two months later, the same stick was £85 due to an explosion.
 
I got my reapers for like £80 I think, they are a bit more now


I need new RAM through
 
Going back a few years, but when I built my first PC, ram was £30 per MB!

Cost you around £180,000 to get 6GB back then (assuming you could find a motherboard with 6000+ memory slots :))

:eek:
 
lol and memory is still going up.

around the start of jan you could get 4gb (2x2gb) for around 70-75 quid and now its around 100 :O
madness!

3x 2gb kits were only around 110-115 mostly back then to.

i expect the price is going to continue to rise aswell i was going to do a full upgrade around the start of december and the same computer spec would be over 100quid more now and that was with a budget of around 665 lol
 
Prices are indeed silly, my 6gb 1600mhz team xtreem dark was about £110 how they're asking £150 for the 1333 modules.

It's all getting a bit silly tbh.

The market will settle down once the prices hit a level people aren't willing to pay, either that or major redundancies will be necessary.
 
I'm just glad one of my DDR2 4x1gb ocz mhz sticks failed when it did, I replaced the whole lot with 2x2gb dominator 8500 for £64 IIRC, at the moment its going for £90-£100, and now I have 3x1gb that I can sell - well I'm selling 2 sticks as a kit and keeping one stick as a spare.

Makes my upgrade to Dominator cost ~£30. :D
 
last time i bought HyperX ram it cost me £15.99 inc VAT and now i see the same stick for between £26-£28.

Even ValueRAM from kingston is like £22 now and thats 1GB but luckily i was able to snag 2x1GB on ebay a few weeks ago for £13 despite it saying 1GB in the title and description but showing 2 sticks in the picture which i assumed to be 2 sticks of 512MB.
 
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arknor said:
you know ram doesnt come from america right?

most pc stuff however does
intel , amd , nvidia , ati etc ram however is manufactured in taiwan mostly
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It doesn't matter where it's made, the USD is the dominant Reserve Currency.

Over the last 12 months or so we've lost 15-20% against the dollar which directly impacts the prices of importing stuff, the Tax man has put another 2.5% on the retail price, commodities such as copper have almost doubled in price making stuff physically more expensive to make and the price of oil has increased which makes it more expensive to produce and ship around the world. Finally there will have been a demand drop* that caused manufacturers & retailers to clear warehoused stock cheaper - and now demand is picking up again the simple laws of Supply & Demand kick in.

*(a big chunk of demand comes from the business sector, desktop upgrade programs and the like - and I haven't heard of many corporates rolling out big upgrade programs - everything has been on hold).

All in all last year was a good time to buy stuff, this year - not so much.
 
Not that I wish to accuse OCUK of anything... but why is it out of all the threads I am subscribed to this is the only one that when I receive an update for it, it goes into "junk mail" :rolleyes: Anyone else get this? - Quite ironic if you ask me.
 
I bought OCZ Gold 6GB 16000MHz 1 year ago for £60. Now they are over £130! Crazy how it has happened. RAM might be the best thing to invest in, never mind gold!
 
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