Will DDR3 prices continue to fall?

mjones1 · 23 Jul 2011 at 12:11

So will DDR3 prices continue to fall?
I'm asking this since im tempted to upgrade my memory or should i hold out?

Thanks.

Surveyor · 23 Jul 2011 at 12:38

I'll just check that out for you...

mjones1 · 23 Jul 2011 at 14:28

What does it say?

Jokester · 23 Jul 2011 at 14:30

I would be amazed if RAM got much cheaper than it is at the moment.

jak731 · 23 Jul 2011 at 14:40

http://electronicsfeed.com/news/474

Basically projected to continue dropping but much more slowly now. For instance I wouldn't expect this to fall to £40 this year but £45 is possible.

KiiYzOo · 23 Jul 2011 at 14:41

ram is mega cheap at the moment, I think that higher performance ram prices may fall, but I doubt that prices on normal spec ram will fall very much

Surveyor · 23 Jul 2011 at 14:54

mjones1 said:
What does it say?

It says that if it could read the future it would be picking lottery numbers and not looking at the price of RAM.

Emphacy · 23 Jul 2011 at 15:10

It appears to fall around 10% every year it's out, until a new type comes out and it will skyrocket before you know it.

I wonder how long until DDR4.

Surveyor · 23 Jul 2011 at 15:15

Emphacy said:
It appears to fall around 10% every year it's out, until a new type comes out and it will skyrocket before you know it.

Not really.

RAM prices are very volatile.

You don't have to go back far and DDR3 was 50% more expensive than it is now.

jak731 · 23 Jul 2011 at 16:02

Emphacy said:
I wonder how long until DDR4.

2014-2015 apparently, quite a long time really.

J-FRO · 23 Jul 2011 at 16:05

I can't believe how disgustingly cheap XMS3 is at the moment. £27 for 4GB! paid £30 for 4GB second hand!....albeit not used.

Reaper 392 · 23 Jul 2011 at 16:08

how come graphics cards are already on GDDR5 while processors are stuck with DDR3?

is it that they are so different that they have no relation to each other in how they work or something?

Emphacy · 23 Jul 2011 at 16:13

GDDR is far different from DDR in its architecture I believe. Besides normal system memory benefits more from lower latency timings than it does clock frequency.
GDDR5 memory still is only 2000MHz or similar, while DDR3 has already hit this mark.

There is also no current chipset to support such memory currently.
EDIT: LINKY

NeoRed · 23 Jul 2011 at 18:42

GDDR5 is based on DDR3 tech.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDDR5

Reaper 392 · 23 Jul 2011 at 19:36

NeoRed said:
GDDR5 is based on DDR3 tech.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDDR5

ah right. so its not that DDR has fallen behind GDDR, its that GDDR has had more changes than DDR