Memory Prices

[Dasda]

Ok, Please don't flame me for asking this as it has taken me a couple days of thinking to even ask because people might flame.

The question is where can one find out how much RAM is truly being produced to know if the prices these companies charge are justified?

In terms of "good time to build", memory is the only bad investment at this time as cpu prices are very competitive(mid-range is atleast). But memory on the other hand is a joke, for example 6 gigs of memory will now cost same as a x58 mobo.

Any way of predicting these prices if we can not actually find out how much is being produced and bought? I am a full-time student with a part-time job so maximizing every dollar is important to me at this stage of my life.

I hope the prices do come down so I can lower the cost of 6 gig memory from about $160cdn to about $100. This will result in me getting a good aftermarket cooler (Cooler Master 212) and some other component like a ODD or Card Reader/Fan Controller.

So any idea when prices of DD3 memory might drop? after Gulftown? Sandybridge? I would think in between launches to be the point since demand increases when new cpus are launched and people want to build new systems. But we have just seen the prices of RAM go up between launches (Bloomfield/Lynnfield-Gulftown).

Thanks

 

[Zap]

The question is where can one find out how much RAM is truly being produced to know if the prices these companies charge are justified?

The price is justified because people willingly pay for it. That's how a free market works.

If $160CND is too much for you, consider going with a 3GB kit and upgrading at a later time. I did that with my last Core i7 build.

 

[RebateMonger]

Last month, had an offer from Intel for a high-end CPU/motherboard combination for quite cheap. Then I looked at DDR3 memory prices and decided I'd live with my Core2 and DDR2 memory (I bought a bunch at $5 a Gigabyte a year ago).

Computer memory has always had its ups and downs, sometimes quite extreme. You can always count on temporary price increases when new memory types (DDR, DDR2, DDR3) are introduced. This applies to both the new memory type AND the old memory type.