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Is it just me? RAM prices seem high right now

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futurefields

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Close to $200 for a decent set of 16gb ddr4 2400.

Is that normal pricing? Or has it gone up recently?

Are prices set to go down any time soon?
 
Put off upgrading at Ryzen release because ram was $180ish cdn for 16gb. It is now $250ish. Hoping it's <$150ish by Spring, but am beginning to lose hope.
 
harobikes333 said:
Any investors / analysts that care to share their view on when prices will come down....?
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Probably not for a while. For example, here was RAM I had on my wishlist on Amazon, and I was thinking about buying it the middle of last year. It was $69.99 for 16GB then. That same set is now at $194.99

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harobikes333 said:
Any investors / analysts that care to share their view on when prices will come down....?
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Its been standard fare with the ram cartel for decades. So maybe next year sometime if we're lucky. More demand for ssd's and flash ram and Samsung putting ddr4 in phones doesn't help I'm sure. About ten years ago with ddr2 it was oh, say $40 for 2gb then $80 then $40 again in the space of 3 years. Mid 2014 to mid 2016 we had cheap DDR3 and 4 after demand stabilized from 2015 Skylake chips. I bought a lot of spare ddr3 when it dropped to $40-50 per 8gb.
 
I was curious, so I just checked the RAM kit ($94) I bought about 3 weeks ago, and it has increased in price by $26 during that time. So it appears we haven't even seen the ceiling yet on RAM pricing...........😱

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between ram pricing and video card pricing there's no way to justify upgrading my stuff right now.

kinda wish i'd held onto the stuff i got at microcenter over the last year. no idea that 1070s would be $50 more expensive a year later and, despite price drops on the processor, the 1700x, taichi, and 16gb combo is $25 more.
 
There is more DDR4 capacity coming online in 2018, can't remember the exact details. Hopefully phones won't just increasingly switch to LPDDR4 neutralizing the supply/demand curve.
 
ArizonaSteve said:
Just waiting for the next slap down of the memory industry for price fixing and collusion. They have a history of it.
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I was thinking the same although the last time I remember a lawsuit was before smartphones and tablets really took off and now we have local cache in SSDs gobbling chipsets up so I'm not so sure its not just supply issues. Can't be crypto miners really as they only need a little bit of ram.
 
PliotronX said:
I was thinking the same although the last time I remember a lawsuit was before smartphones and tablets really took off and now we have local cache in SSDs gobbling chipsets up so I'm not so sure its not just supply issues. Can't be crypto miners really as they only need a little bit of ram.
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all those video cards need ram
 
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