Wait on That RAM Upgrade! Prices Set To Nosedive in H2

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Market research firm IHS said that oversupply in the DRAM market will be sending prices for memory chips into a steep decline in Q3 and Q4 of this year.

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[kcorp2003]

awesome news

 

[Lunarion]

This is great for those who are building a new machine with the bulldozer chips like myself!

 

[stingstang]

yea well...how about releasing ddr4 already? That will get the market going again.

 

[aft_lizard01]

I just spent $59 for 8GB of ddr3..how much lower could they go?

 

[amk-aka-Phantom]

Sweet, I don't need more than 8GB, but... why the hell not? 😀

 

[RADIO_ACTIVE]

hmm might upgrade to something with better timings

 

[chickenhoagie]

Wow..built my computer no more than a year ago and spent $105 on 4GB of DDR3 1600. Fml..oh well. time to upgrade to 8GB I guess

 

[jhansonxi]

Out of slots on my Asus MB. Using Kingston DDR2 ECC (non-registered) with my Phenom 9550 but maybe it's time for a new CPU+MB+RAM.

 

[Nakal]

[citation][nom]aft_lizard01[/nom]I just spent $59 for 8GB of ddr3..how much lower could they go?[/citation]


I saw 8GB for $29 on Newegg recently.. lol

 

[blader15sk8]

[citation][nom]aft_lizard01[/nom]I just spent $59 for 8GB of ddr3..how much lower could they go?[/citation]

I've been seeing them for 35 after rebate or 45 no rebate every week. Espeically in Newegg's shell shockers deals.

 

[Guest]

soldier37: 16GB of DDR3 1600 is already piss-cheap today, I'm not sure what magical pricepoint you're hoping for...

 

[PennyLife]

Yea I feel like RAM is the component where I've seen the biggest price drops over the last year. I built a computer in probably April 2010, paid $170 for 6GB of 1600MHz DDR3. Built a computer last week (August, 2011), paid $65 for 8GB of 1600MHz DDR3 (low voltage ram, too).

 

[eddieroolz]

If prices drop enough I can pick up a 4GB DDR3 SODIMM for my laptop.

 

[brennon7]

Sad, I paid about $190 for 6gb of cas6 1600mhz ram... don't think you can even buy cas6 today.

 

[RazberyBandit]

RAM prices have already dropped significantly over the last year, with DDR3 prices well below what DDR2 prices were two years ago. (Prior to the Q3/Q4 2009 RAM price increase).

If RAM gets much cheaper, vendors may as well give it away...

 

[skaz]

I hope the 12 GB, CL 7, triple channel kits drop drastically. They still hover well over a hundred dollars.

 

[QEFX]

Amazing how cheap ram has gotten. I would like to see 8GB & 16GB modules get to market. At $1.25 for 16GB, that's only $20. I'd pick up enough to fill every slot on every system I have access to. Not that I can think of anything, even from Microsoft, that could use 3 or 4 sticks of 16GB.

I still remember back in the day getting an amazing price on 4 MB simms (early 486 days) $351 (inc tax) each, if I bought enough to max out my workstation (16 slots) - $5,616. Now you can get 1000x that amount for under $100.

 

[Flameout]

i wonder what this means for bloatware...

 

[pjmelect]

DDR and DDR2 prices are still very high. I would have thought that there would be more profit in making these older chips.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

Time to build that 24 GB RAM machine I've always wanted. Oh wait...apps are still 32-bit. Useless!

 

[nforce4max]

Even though I just ordered a 8gb kit an hour ago I'll likely buy a second if prices are indeed much lower than they are now just to top things off.

 

[beenthere]

Hello... We ARE in Q3 and this year and RAM prices have already dropped. You can buy 8 GB. of name brand RAM for ~ $60. which is a steal IMO.

BTW, for those who do not know - Mixing of RAM is never recommended and is not guaranteed to work even if the DIMMs are the identical model. See Corsair and other website Upgrade Guides to confirm this. See the various RAM forums for folks who have learned the hard way that unless you buy a Matchded, Tested RAM Kit the RAM may not work as desired or at all.

 

[maxinexus]

I'm still running 4x2GB 800 DDR2 and there is absolutely, absolutely no need to upgrade.
Even though I almost did upgrade to 2500K and DDR3 but realized that that my PhenomII B55( 555 X2 unlocked to full 955 X4)@3.6Ghz in marriage with Radeon 6950 flashed to 6970 is more than enough to play all the games at max detail at 1920x1200.

So why upgrade? I know that urge is there but really do we need more than 8 GB? Simple NO. I have not seen my memory go beyond 50% use ever

 

[hunter315]

How much farther can those 2GB sticks really drop? Some of them are down to $30 for a 2x2GB kit. Hopefully this really just means that the faster kits will be coming down in price to meet the 1333MHz kits at rock bottom prices.