MEMORY

[gorbs]

anybody know why the deals are on the newer faster memory modules.? i would like to add another gig of memeory to my system but at the prices they want for the same stuff its crazy. i have 184 pin 2x512 of corsair xms. to get 2 gigs of that will still cost me over 250.00 dollars. but i can get the new super fast 240 pin for 170.00 ??

man that just isnt right

 

[Kirby64]

Supply and demand. They don't have much supply for DDR1 memory, but you have a demand for it. They charge $250. Switch to a C2D or something if you want to fix that issue.

 

[gorbs]

i will buy the new stuff when i can afford to upgrade. gotta get the last daughter out of highschool, this year , then on to college.

hell if that stuff is taking up space they should make me an offer lol. guess i will have to go with another manufacturer. patriot , ocz . any recommendations.

 

[0roo0roo]

manufacturing switching over to faster stuff
lower supply=higher demand from niche buyers who must have obsolete stuff. all others switch to faster systems or don' bother upgrading.
frys tends to have lots of system bundles on sale, many about 100 bucks or so, good path to ddr2. and ram? 2gb for under 100 dollars these days ddr 2 667mhz. in hotdeals there was a 65watt x2 amd system for cheap from frys

 

[Nathelion]

Yeah contrary to what you may have believed, hardware prices go like this: First they're high, because XXX is the newest fasxtest blazin' thing on the market. Then they drop gradually because of newer more competitive products. Then the industry switches to something else, and suddenly prices skyrocket. Try finding cheap DDR2100 laptop memory on ebay. Good luck. DDR has been more expensive than DDR2 pretty much since the very day socket 939 real-life performance was eclipsed by AM2 (Intel had already switched). As soon as its no longer standard, the rule is the older it gets, the more expensive it gets, not the other way round like you might have thought.

 

[Billb2]

Like RDRAM

 

[Roguestar]

Yup, most of the fabs have moved over to pressing out DDR2 because the latest AMD and Intel chipsets both use it, and because the new mainstream stuff getting shoved out to business and home users also uses it. Less demand for DDR1 except as upgrades.

 

[0roo0roo]

heh well we are on our way to ddr3 by now actually
http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=2989