when should i buy ram?

FrostedNipple · 19 Jul 2007 at 20:24

Hi, im eventually going to buy another 2 gigs of ram, when would be the best time to do this, price wise? Will ram go down soon, or is it going to go up?

I'm going to get Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C5 TwinX (2x1GB), due to it matching the ram i already have Corsair 1GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C5 TwinX (2x512MB)

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-092-CS&tool=3
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-112-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=813

Duke · 19 Jul 2007 at 20:37

Ram is very cheap at the moment, and has been for the last few months. One of our suppliers said it was going up in the coming weeks, but haven't seen it yet.

Now is as good time as any

FrostedNipple · 19 Jul 2007 at 20:38

Duke said:
Ram is very cheap at the moment, and has been for the last few months. One of our suppliers said it was going up in the coming weeks, but haven't seen it yet.

Now is as good time as any

i assume its going up due to ddr3 coming out and making ddr2 less easy to get!

Duke · 19 Jul 2007 at 20:41

DDR3 is still very new, so I would think it will be sometime until production shifts that way significantly, but yes it will go up eventually (at a guess, next year).

FrostedNipple · 19 Jul 2007 at 20:47

will it be wiser me getting just 1 more gig, rather than 2, will i notice the difference between 2 and 3?

Margaret · 19 Jul 2007 at 20:52

FrostedNipple said:
will it be wiser me getting just 1 more gig, rather than 2, will i notice the difference between 2 and 3?

Not so sure, you might wanna just buy 2 more gigs because it works out cheaper to buy two sticks instead of one stick now and one stick later.

ash_scotland88 · 19 Jul 2007 at 21:12

saturday at 2:21, thats gonna be the best time.

FrostedNipple · 19 Jul 2007 at 21:25

ash_scotland88 said:
saturday at 2:21, thats gonna be the best time.

this isn't GD

Nullvoid · 19 Jul 2007 at 21:31

The best time would likely be ASAP as the prices can only go higher than current levels.

FrostedNipple · 19 Jul 2007 at 21:33

Nullvoid said:
The best time would likely be ASAP as the prices can only go higher than current levels.

Yer just ordered and wanted delivery on Tuesday, so hopefully should get it then, when im in

then i can finally max bf2 with out the stuttering

thefishdude · 19 Jul 2007 at 23:34

yeah ram soo cheap i remmebr buying my corsair last year like yours but the c4 version and was somethkng like 170 for 2gb

Frank_Rizzo · 20 Jul 2007 at 01:11

If you already have 1Gb/2Gb you would be better off having a second hard disk.

On the second disk store all ancillary stuff such as temp files, caches, cookies, log files etc.

The bonus is that you can use that drive to keep disk images and thus restore quickly in the event of main disk failure or corruption.

Ram has a weird performance plateau where too little = extreme low performance, decent amount = great performance, too much = little gain above great performance.

Above 1Gb consider your disks as the most important as this is a slow, outdated mechanical device which is now the only bottleneck in a PC.