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DDR Memory Prices going Up, Article Link Inside



<< wow good thing i upgraded to DDR in september and got 256x2 from crucial for about 50 bucks. >>



You bastard 🙂 I was going to buy a 512 stick when they were about 60 or so, but decided against it in the end... I'm kicking myself hard right now!
 
God, this almost completely strips the value out of an AMD system. An Intel system with some RDRAM is going to be pretty tempting in the near future 😱.
 
I have 10 sticks of Crucial, 256 MB 🙂 All sealed, ready for resale on Ebay when the time is right.
 
I always purchase components in bulk when they're very cheap. In the summmer, I bought DDR SDRAM. Now, I'm buying RDRAM. I'm glad that DDR SDRAM prices are going up, as it will keep people from getting DDR SDRAM on the Pentium 4.
 
Its kind of ironic isn't it? People were complaining about the high cost of RDRAM and the lack of DDR support for the P4 for the longest time. Now that P4 DDR platforms are finally available, it makes better sense to go RDRAM.
 
Yea, blame it on Intel. Whatever RAM they're using at the time skyrockets in price. Maybe AMD needs to come out with an RDRAM chipset.
 


<< Yea, blame it on Intel. Whatever RAM they're using at the time skyrockets in price. Maybe AMD needs to come out with an RDRAM chipset. >>

The front side bus on the Athlon can't handle that much bandwidth. However, a single channel PC1066 chipset would suit bandwidth requirements perfectly for the Athlon.
 
Its kind of ironic isn't it? People were complaining about the high cost of RDRAM and the lack of DDR support for the P4 for the longest time. Now that P4 DDR platforms are finally available, it makes better sense to go RDRAM.

Lol, and do you think RDRAM prices are going to stay where they are? DDR RAM is still, on the average, slightly cheaper than RDRAM. It's barely been 2 months since this has been true, whereas it was about 1 year where RDRAM was ridiculously high in price compared to DDR and SDR memory.

The front side bus on the Athlon can't handle that much bandwidth. However, a single channel PC1066 chipset would suit bandwidth requirements perfectly for the Athlon.

No actually, RDRAM needs to be used in dual channel configurations or it's latency penalty becomes much to high. That's the basically the only reason you see dual channel RDRAM chipsets (i850) at all....
 


<< Lol, and do you think RDRAM prices are going to stay where they are? >>


Nope, it will probably go up as well.


<< DDR RAM is still, on the average, slightly cheaper than RDRAM >>


They are so close, its not even worth mentioning. At the moment, price is not in the DDR/RDRAM equation.
 
I just paid $71 a stick for some 256MB Crucial. The quality and overclockability is so much better than that $20 Crucial stuff from a few months ago! (or that's what I like to tell myself so I can sleep at night 🙂 )
 
I won't be going DDR anytime in the near future. Not untill prices are back down which they will be but when is the ?????.
 


<< The quality and overclockability is so much better than that $20 Crucial stuff from a few months ago! (or that's what I like to tell myself so I can sleep at night 🙂 ) >>


LOL!
 
I don't think we will ever see DDR prices as low as $30 again. The price did do just what it was supposed to do though, jump start the market. I think that they will eventually even out to about where they are now. I wish I would have bought a couple more sticks back then though. I pulled a 256MB out of one of my PCs that had 2 and put it in the new machine I was building thinking that the prices wouldn't go up, then a month later I really really regreted that decision. At least it is still cheaper than it was when I built my first DDR machine.
 


<< No actually, RDRAM needs to be used in dual channel configurations or it's latency penalty becomes much to high. That's the basically the only reason you see dual channel RDRAM chipsets (i850) at all.... >>

You're thinking of 32-bit RDRAM. 16-bit single channel has similar latency penalties to dual channel 16-bit. Also, with higher clock frequencies, the penalties drop even more.
 
Good god, a 512mb Crucial PC2100 stick is up $14 from yesterday!!!!! Dang, they're really gonna stick it to us I guess.
 
The price of RAM was so low because manufacturing at the end of 2000 beginning 2001 was in high gear because people expected a continued growth. Then the economy took a nosedive and manufacturers had huge amounts of RAM in stock, while still producing more.
This almost drove Infineon into bankruptcy, as they sold RAM chips for 50% of the production costs. But they can't just stop the manufacturing.
So, they need to sell off the stuff, and that was done at cut throat prices.

I also bought 3 DDRs last Fall, and I've only used two of them.
 
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