DDR2 Prices

[Kaldorine]

I was going to buy Win7 64bit to replace my aging Windows XP Install, and i was also going to pick up another 4 gigs of memory to make full use of the 64bit install. Some time early last year i picked up 4 gigs of Gskill ram for under 50$ something like 48.99, and now the prices for the exact same product have nearly doubled, and i know that memory was priced that low for quite some time so it wasn't some type of short time sale.

I figured prices would either be the same or even lower. But i guess i must have missed the memo when the prices skyrocketed. anywhere i can pick up some cheap G Skill ddr2??

Thanks

 

[RebateMonger]

Right now, $20 per Gigabyte is about the cheapest DDR2 you'll find. I don't know about GSkill, specifically.

Yeah, I was paying as low as $5 a Gigabyte for Crucial memory in early 2009. I'm glad I bought a bunch of it now.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Right now, $20 per Gigabyte is about the cheapest DDR2 you'll find. I don't know about GSkill, specifically.

Yeah, I was paying as low as $5 a Gigabyte for Crucial memory in early 2009. I'm glad I bought a bunch of it now.

ditto that, I'll do the same when DDR3 bottoms out.

 

[Kaldorine]

Yeah Live and you learn. I just wish now i had bought tons of it. I'm def not gonna miss my chance with ddr3.

 

[Emulex]

some price fixing going on - i remember the ram resellers giving me the date when ram was going up - bagged a ton of ddr2-ecc brand name for $25 a pop (2gb) since i have a bunch of ml110's laying around

 

[Blain]

Sounds like Economics 101... Suppy/Demand

 

[n7]

RAM has ALWAYS gone up in price once it's not mainstream for as long as i can remember.

Waiting is not necessarily a good idea for a lot of hardware-related purchases.
It's a common mistake; people assume over time things will get cheaper, but due to supply/demand/etc, this is not really always true

 

[pitz]

There's also the issue that China/Taiwan/etc. need to charge more for their exports, in order to fund US budget deficits. In other words, the US dollar is dropping, while wages are rising in those countries.

I would personally expect that trend to continue. Deflation in the prices of computer items I suspect has largely run its course, and the impact of new technology on reducing prices is having an increasingly smaller impact (ie: integration trends for computer components have pretty much run their course!).

 

[blackhawk]

its like the price of oil, demand determines price and production of ddr2 is pretty much slowing as is demand.

I got my 8gb of ddr2 GSkill for about 120 cdn about 18 months ago and last ddr3 4gb for 120 as well but on sale.

Try to find your model ram in the used forums is all I can say.