When will ram prices decrease?

[doomofzoom]

When will ram prices decrease back to normal?i am planning on building a Pc after 4 months, will the prices decrease by that time or they will stay the same?

 

[rgd1101]

What is normal?

 

[vapour]

What is your total budget and what is your potential rig specs? we may help and I don't think ram is over priced much compared to GPU.

 

[Hellfire13]

Look for deals around Black Friday, Cyber Monday and/or Christmas. You can get a lot of components on discount.

 

[doomofzoom]

My budget is around 950 dollars I already got a case and I am willing to use a gtx 1070 with ryzen 5 1600, if ram prices decrease back to what they used to be a year ago I would be able to get a ssd and hdd instead of a single used hdd

 

[kanewolf]

This article from a couple weeks ago on Tom's made me pull the trigger now -- http://www.tomshardware.com/news/dram-price-shortage-hike-40,35469.html

 

[dextermat]

Computer hardware is stagnant and monopolized. I don't see price going down anywhere soon.

 

[vapour]

950 to include what? Do you need OS? Monitor? Are you gaming at 1080p or 4k? 1070 will be overkill for 1080p.

 

[photonboy]

Hi,
DDR3/4 prices are tied to MEMORY prices in general which includes different types of flash memory. SSD's, camera cards, VRAM and so on.

There are plenty of ESTIMATES but so far it's really vague and could be in two months, or even a YEAR from now before prices drop noticeably.

On top of that we have the Graphics Card prices due to crypto-miners. That may be a non-issue in four months but who knows.

(I'd also consider COFFEE LAKE from Intel instead of AMD Ryzen depending on performance results and the prices. The 6C/6T (6-core no hyperthreading) i5-8600K looks really interesting if it costs about $260USD!!

It may be up to 50% faster per core than the R5-1600 (after both max overclock) so even with SMT/Hyperthreading with full load the R5-1600 won't catch up if performance results are accurate or even close, and of course it would blow the R5-1600 away for most tasks like gaming, especially when single-thread performance matters a lot.

 

[gangrel]

Probably not.

http://www.dramexchange.com/WeeklyResearch/Post/2/4780.html

 

[killerchickens]

If anything they will probably stay the same or go up.

 

[TJ Hooker]

Hi,
DDR3/4 prices are tied to MEMORY prices in general which includes different types of flash memory. SSD's, camera cards, VRAM and so on.

Flash memory (i.e. SSDs, camera memory cards) is different than DRAM (i.e. DDR, VRAM). They are different technologies produced in different fabs (other than SSDs typically having a small DRAM cache). Don't see why one would affect the other.