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

[JohnnyLucky]

[citation][nom]MISRy[/nom]Yeah, yeah, yeah, 640k will be enough for the foreseeable future.[/citation]

ROFLMAO! I defintely remember when Bill Gates said that. At the time I had the original IBM PC with 256K memory!!!

 

[Wish I Was Wealthy]

I've recently looked over the internet at several online stores & seen that they all were short of the desired cas 6 latencies that I wanted to buy.

 

[Wish I Was Wealthy]

Good One! JohnnyLucky,you've got it right again...

 

[ChromeTusk]

Not true in my case...i bought 2x1GB initially, then another GB then finally added a fourth. No probs so far. Survived all Sandra lite benchmarks, Crysis 2, MW 2, and more. The 3GB even got through memtest.

Could be a prob for others though, or the companies are simply bull-s-h-double t-ing.

Just my opinion, problems with mixing RAM is part hardware and part marketing. Companies would rather have consumers buy replacement parts rather than additional upgrades. Simple economics at work.
If you keep things at stock settings, it should work 99% of the time. However, some of us like to push the hardware as far as it will go: timings, frequency, and voltage. It is just a matter of finding the sweet spot and a single part can make a big difference.

 

[Wish I Was Wealthy]

I've got a real pissed off feeling,that is that in Sydney,Australia all the prices seam to still be quite high. Like for Corsair cas 6 latencies,etc. They are my preferred brand & I would only use kingston rams for a normal online go any where surfing pc.

 

[beenthere]

Of course RAM companies want to sell more RAM but all you need to do is go to any RAM forum and see the people who mixed RAM or bought the same RAM and it did not work. As I said it's a crap shoot. If you're feeling lucking go the cheap route. If you want to be sure the RAM functions without problems, buy a matched, tested guaranteed kit.

 

[Wish I Was Wealthy]

I've used mixed ram when gaming online,but not when doing real top notch gaming.

 

[silverblue]

Got two sets of Kingston DDR2-800 RAM, but of course, one set (the first set I bought) was rated to run at a speed only achievable via EPP profiles (i.e. overclocking from 667MHz to 800MHz). Windows 7's memory diagnostic hates them. So, they're technically the same RAM, but Kingston pulled a bit of a fast one with the first set.

 

[jacobdrj]

I have 8GB of DDR2. My dad has 4 GB of DDR2. Those prices are pretty normalized, and likely won't be affected by this situation.

I have been hoping that the supply of DDR2 would increase a bit to lower the prices to 5 bux a gig, but it looks like that won't happen.

I am not upgrading either system until something breaks anyways...

Now, for work computers... If only my company was not limited by 32 bit software, I'd slap in 16 gigs with my own money, if I could... We use VM's all the time, and the non-VM stuff we do almost saturates the 3.5 gb of RAM we do have...

 

[duk3]

Just spent $35 on 8 gb ddr3 1600.. so good.

 

[Wish I Was Wealthy]

I've checked my favorite online stores to buy ram & they're still out of stock.What are these idiots saying on this blog with their posts. They're advising the companies to make less ram,so that the prices of ram will go up & like usual the greedy local computer hardware outlet makes a bundle on cash.

 

[amk-aka-Phantom]

mhoolahan
How many virtual pc do you have to run? You should have stick with WinXP and save your self a hassle of incompatibility. I think upgrading to win7 when you use a ton of a winxp software is ridiculous, if that is the case. If not well go ahead and get 32GB if that is going to make you happy. I save up and get another SSD to expand my RAID 0.

In conclusion, I'm sure that upgrading from 8 to 16 or 1600 to 2000 won't make a ANY noticeable difference. I did not notice any difference when upg from 4 to 8...oh wait the only difference I noticed was the usage meter dropped from 44% to 22% ;D

Lekko, when DDR4 or strait DDR5 comes up we can all play domino with DDR3s...or in my case DDR2 stiks How cool is that 😀

That is SUCH BS right there. The only incompatibility issues I ever encountered on Win7 was Skype 3.8 (crash on Win7 x64, problem is acknowledged by both MS and Skype, and they don't care); and that is only thanks to Skype trying to force everyone to use the newer, more bloated (FB integration, mind you... bastards) versions of it.

 

[beenthere]

Yup, we are lucky to be able to buy good RAM so cheaply.