Historical PC Component Prices

[dv8silencer]

I was wondering if there is a site that shows historical prices (ex. 5 year charts. or something like that..something like stock prices over time) of common pc components like memory, etc. ?

 

[shadowduck]

RAM prices from way back in 1957 to last year.

http://www.jcmit.com/memoryprice.htm

 

[Andrius]

www.geizhals.at [german page - "preisentwicklung" feature] has something like that but it's not that far reaching as most components aren't sold that long.

IE AMD 3800+ X2 : http://geizhals.at/eu/?phist=157457&age=2000
IE AMD XP 2200+ : http://geizhals.at/eu/?phist=32650&age=2000

 

[aevm]

RAM prices from way back in 1957 to last year.

http://www.jcmit.com/memoryprice.htm

Nice find!

So, 1 MB of extra slow RAM was 411 million bucks 50 years ago (I guess that's 2 billion in today's dollars), and 1 MB of really fast RAM was 7 cents last year (and I think it's 3 or 4 cents right now). Now that's a great investment

 

[ryanthesav]

Where did u find that?..good job!

 

[shadowduck]

Google is god.

$10,000,000 in 1957 is worth $76,449,466.19 in 2008.

So lets see. $411,000,000 goes into 10,000,000 41.1 times. So thats: $16,892,100,000.00 in 2008 dollars. 16 billion dollars!

 

[dv8silencer]

Thanks! I appreciate the info.

 

[dv8silencer]

I believe NexTag also has a "price history" area for products

 

[mihirkula]

Wow nice thread! This is the link for CPU prices since 1978

http://www.scribd.com/doc/415771/Intel-Processor-History?query2=history%20of%20cpu%20prices