RAM Prices

[Patre]

Since I built my rig in June of 2013, I've noticed that the RAM prices have actually gone up!!

I bought 2x8 sticks for $129 and now they're $166 HERE and a bit more HERE.

Aren't they supposed to coming down in prices (at regular intervals)??

 

[JBT]

Depends on Supply Demand. A lot of folks blame it on this fire.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-...o-year-high-after-sk-hynix-fire-in-china.html

You would think this would have been sorted out by now. I just picked up 16GB Gskill 1866 1.5v 9-10-9-28 stuff for $149. Not as good as its been, but not as bad as it could be.

 

[Patre]

I suppose that makes sense......especially when this country has depended on China and other countries for everything else and avoided using all the available natural resources. Anyway, that's a whole different can of worms...........

 

[aigomorla]

You would think this would have been sorted out by now. I just picked up 16GB Gskill 1866 1.5v 9-10-9-28 stuff for $149. Not as good as its been, but not as bad as it could be.

they are making extra profits..
people are still buying.

they wont deflate prices until people stop buying, or micron decides to declare war on prices like it did against samsung on SSDs. ^_^

 

[JBT]

they are making extra profits..
people are still buying.

they wont deflate prices until people stop buying, or micron decides to declare war on prices like it did against samsung on SSDs. ^_^

Agreed. Even if that incident did cause some supply shortage, but demand remained the same or increased, they would have no reason to drop prices if us consumers still think its low enough and are snatching it up.

 

[Topweasel]

Since the fires they have been holding back production on DDR3 to prevent large excess production and multi week back supply. Once DDR4 starts ramping up they will start to ramp down DDR3 production raising prices on that. 3-4 years in DDR's reign we should see 2012 like pricing for DDR4.

 

[zir_blazer]

Agree. DDR4 production ramp will cause DDR3 production to go down and thus prices should increase even further. People refused to purchase 16-32 GB RAM when it was dirt cheap just because 8 GB was already enough, now their wallet will bleed if they want to upgrade RAM capacity in current generation.

 

[toughtrasher]

Agree. DDR4 production ramp will cause DDR3 production to go down and thus prices should increase even further. People refused to purchase 16-32 GB RAM when it was dirt cheap just because 8 GB was already enough, now their wallet will bleed if they want to upgrade RAM capacity in current generation.

And now they suffer for being reasonable

 

[Topweasel]

And now they suffer for being reasonable

No it was unreasonable. People explained that memory prices were the cheapest we had seen since PC100 days. It was never going to get lower and memory manufacturers where waiting for any simple reason to raise and stabilize pricing. They just didnt want to have another price fixing scandal. The only thing unpredictable was when and what excuse.

I got 32 GB of Gskill Sniper for $100. I am sorry but the 8gb for $40 vs. 16GB for 50-60 doesn't seem prudent specially with a lot of these guys buying 580's and 6970's which also wasn't needed for their 1080 gaming. Stepping down to a 6950 and 16GB or better, or just plain paying $20 more and doubling their ram was a safer bet.

Anyone holding off now is making the same mistake.

 

[zir_blazer]

You're also forgetting that a disaster that kicked prices up was quite predictable. We had a previous experience with Hard Diskses when Western Digital plant looked like Venice, HDs went from dirt cheap to ridiculous expensive. We knew than DRAM makers had razor sharp profits, and they would be licking their fingers in anticipation to a disaster that could save their business. So much that you can argue than the Hynix fire could have been arson, as every DRAM manufacturer should have made quite a bit of profit with the results of that price spike. If you expected that, you maxed RAM in anticipation.

 

[john3850]

Todays memory prices are still much better then when the C2d were released.
How long should will it take for the DDR-4 to ramp up to DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) cas 9-9-9-24 speeds.