ram prices dropping soon?

[quakefiend420]

have seen a few people talking about ram prices dropping drastically soon, due to sd prices dropping, i believe...whats everyones take on this?

 

[quakefiend420]

nobody has any clue? cmon ppl, someone around here has to have an opinion about this...i bet if i started a thread about favorite boxer color everyone would have an asshole....err i mean opinion to give...so wtf m8

 

[bdjohnson]

maybe for once people on this board are not making dumb replies to a thread they don't know anything about.

 

[Spikesoldier]

the US has tariffs against imported memory.

price will be rock steady for years to come.

 

[mrweirdo]

It would be nice if it went down as I dont realy feel like paying like $170 for kingston 1GB(2x512MB) PC3200 right now but I definately need it as I curently only have 256MB in my system
Seems to me as I keep looking at RAM(been debating when to buy for like ever) it keeps geting more and more expensive a little at a time. I can rember building a few systems about a month or so ago with that same memory and it was priced around $150 or so :/

 

[Adn4n]

Ram prices are already low. You can get some sticks of 512 CAS 2.5 for 60-70 bucks. You don't need Platinum Revisions.....

 

[L00PY]

SD price drops have been due for a while. They had been at a fair price premium to CF, and more and more products are using SD cards. AMD has also said their flash side has underperformed recently, perhaps pointing to a general weakness in the market. Besides, the larger factor has probably been emergence of higher speed SD cards which lead some retailers to dump their stock of slower cards.

In all, SD pricing behaviour is probably closer to SATA HD prices than DDR prices. As larger capacities are introduced there will be a general downwards trend.

The DRAM market is much, much more volatile. Earthquakes, FUD, and seasonal effects all take their toll. Like with the stock market, the easiest way to lose money is to try to time the market. If I had to guess though, I'd say prices will probably stay steady for a while longer -- the school rush is over and X-Mas is a ways off. Plus, neither Dell nor HP appear to have RAM offers on their desktop builds (I'm assuming that they offer as a promotion whatever's cheapest to them).

So that's just a longwinded way of saying, who knows? If you need it, buy it -- if you want it, just wait until you need it. But keep in mind that an earthquake, war, port closing, or typhoon could always drive prices up.

 

[LifeStealer]

It seems to me like ram prices are already dropping. The question is will they go back up again.

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

i'd say steady for value ram and slowly dropping for fast stuff as all these 2225 things come out

 

[mrweirdo]

In response to my previous post I finaly caved in and bough some ram from newegg. Decided to go with Corsair Value Select 512MB DDR PC-3200 for $81.