DDR is $80 for 256mb? Holy crud, am I glad I bought mine in July 2001!

[MichaelD]

Not really trying to NEF (like I need to try...) but I just HAD to say that I went over to Crucial's site today...and almost fainted! :Q $40 for a 128mb stick? Bah!

I knew I'd be upgrading and joining the 133FSB/DDR revolution one of these years, so I bought 512mb of PC2100 back in July 2001. It's still in the box they shipped it in. I'm really glad I purchased it back then...that's a lot less (like, $160 less!) that I have to shell out now.

*whew*

Just sharing. Have a great Friday night, you party animals!

 

[Adul]

good choice. it just means the market is now actualy making money instead of loosing it.

 

[Viper GTS]

I have 512 MB of Crucial registered DDR in my dual Athlon system. At one point I bought another 512 MB, but decided I needed the $60 more than I needed the RAM. So I sold it. Big mistake. It doubled practically overnight, one week after I sold it.

Blech.

:disgust:

Viper GTS

 

[poopaskoopa]

$66 - 512MB - 2 days before Thanksgiving last year .

 

[Lars]

I need to buy memory soon.

 

[Red Dawn]

Back in November I bought a gig's worth of 256 Meg PC133 Micron SDRAM for only $60.00 shipped from Dell. Before that I was sweating over paying $25.00 per stick. I did buy a bunch in anticipation of memory going up, I just wish I would have bought more DDR instead of plain SDRAM.

 

[ILikeSprite]

I just bought 512MB of PC2100 for $112 shipped or so.....

 

[MichaelD]

<< good choice. it just means the market is now actualy making money instead of loosing it. >>



Yeah, I knew it was a supply-and-demand thing, and that's why it was so cheap. We did get plenty of warning that it was going up. I know lots of folks stocked-up on it.

ViperGTS, that stinks! A week later, the price doubles. 512mb is pretty much enough for everything you do though, right?

 

[UofI]

Putting aside the fact that memory prices are cheap compared to that in the 90's, when will the price come down? I doubt it will be to the point where it was 60$ for 512mb of crucial, but when will it be available for like 45$?

 

[Soulflare]

I hope that DDR prices remain stable at the very least since I'm waiting, and waiting, and did
I mention waiting, for Crucial to start producing some PC2700.

 

[Red Dawn]

<< We did get plenty of warning that it was going up. I know lots of folks stocked-up on it. >>

Yep we sure did. That's why I stocked up. I've got a whole drawer full of it. Of course it's going for systems that I build for Clients and yes they do pay the going market price.

 

[Viper GTS]

Sure, 512 MB is enough for me. But then again one 1.2 GHz TBird is probably also enough.



Viper GTS <-- Loves overkill in his PC

 

[Liviathan]

I bought a gig of PC133 from crucial for about 125 in december. Everything I work with digital video I am glad I did.

 

[Logix]

I bought two 256 sticks for $50 each back in Jul 2001. Within a week, the price dropped to $45, and after a month or two it was close to $30, which didn't make me feel too great about my purchase. But, that purchase is looking good now.

 

[KennyTheGreat]

the best deal i got was back in august where it was 256mb DDR pc-2100 for 40 bucks canadian which is about 25 american