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DDR3 Prices.

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Ertaz

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Do we expect them to fall in the next couple of months? I am buying my mobo tomorrow. I was going to order some memory but it's going through the roof and not even in stock in some places. Just my luck, when I finally decide on a tri-channel board this memory price spike occurs...
 
In the next couple of months? I doubt it. The recent low prices (primarily DDR2, last year) were due to price fixing and a ton of other garbage. Simply put, you're not going to find 2x 2GB kits for $20-40 anymore.
 
Fabs haven't been profitable for most of the past decade, so the construction of them relative to supply has slowed down dramatically. Especially with the 'financial crisis' of the past few years.

Hence, I would expect prices to remain stable, if not to rise going forward. Couple that with USD$ devaluation, and it is somewhat likely that the absolute bottom in the DRAM market occurred last year.

Good thing memory is just a very small fraction of the cost of a computer and its software. A doubling, tripling, or even quadrupling of prices probably wouldn't hurt most consumers.
 
I broke down and bought a 4gb low voltage dual channel set of 1333.

109.99
-13.53 BCB
-20.00 Rebate
= 76.46 Net.

Not the Greatest, but not the best either.
 
Keep an eye out for really good sales and be ready to pounce when you find a half-way decent deal.

That's what I had to do and I finally wound up getting 8GB of Corsair DDR3-1600 for $238 from Best Buy of all places. A lot of places sell that exact RAM for about $300. That was only $20 more than I was able to sell my old Corsair DDR3 1333 on E-Bay. I bought that stuff at Fry's for a $150.00 back in October. You just have to be as patient and as vigilant as you possibly can, and when you do find that perfect deal from a reputable seller, strike immediately.

Narrow down a few different model numbers from a few different manufactures and just Google and Bing search them every day. One day you will find what you want at a great price. That's how I got an open box Intel 160GB G2 SSD from Newegg for about $320.

These days that is the only way I buy anything. Whenever I plan a new build, I just assume that it will take a me a couple of months to get all the parts at a great price and I always plan on buying the vid card and the CPU last unless I get a killer dead beforehand. Only buy new hardware if you can practically STEAL it. Just set aside your cash and be ready to move when the right opportunity comes along.
Don't be in such a hurry.
 
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Ha. I remember my first "full 386" motherboad. In those days, the motherboards came with the CPU. $725 for the 385-25MHz board and $700 for 8 MB of DIP memory chips. I don't recall how many memory chips it held, but I'm sure there were dozens. It took forever just to insert the memory chips.

On eBay, there's currently a photo of a similar board with 8 MB of DIP memory installed. Looks like 72 memory chips
 
My first two gigs of DDR2-800 for my AM2 rig cost me $350. The second two gigs, with the same timings/voltage? $30. I was really happy about that.
 
Ertaz said:
I broke down and bought a 4gb low voltage dual channel set of 1333.

109.99
-13.53 BCB
-20.00 Rebate
= 76.46 Net.

Not the Greatest, but not the best either.
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Not a bad price actually. I paid $85 for Corsair 2x2GB DDR3 1333 which I thought was pretty good. I have a feeling memory prices aren't coming down anytime soon.
 
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