Uhh.... buy RAM now?

[gopunk]

Memory prices on the rise

 

[ToBeMe]

Most definately! :Q

 

[dullard]

"Spot prices for DRAM have mounted a recovery in recent weeks after a year-long slide that erased 90 percent of their value and made the cost of production more expensive than selling prices."

I wanted to buy all my familiy members enough memory to double their current memory for Christmas. I made that decision at work one day in the beginning of December. The very next day, Crucial had doubled the price on all the memory types I had looked at the day earlier. Now the prices are triple what I saw in early December. I got them other gifts.

 

[gopunk]

i think i might buy some... who know i can ebay it when prices go up

 

[gogeeta13]

Damnit, looks like I am stuck at 512 for now

 

[Ionizer86]

It's too expensive to buy now. Remember Best Buy selling Crucial PC2100 256mb at $25? This may happen again, and you'll luck out Otherwise, go check on the FS forum because some people may be selling DDR at reasonable prices.

 

[Cougar]

Geez, I'm soooooo tempted to buy some memory right now in case it actually does go up. I'm going to be upgrading to a Pentium 4 with DDR in the near future and I really don't feel like paying 30% more for memory just 'cause I waited a month.

Argh.....so much to buy and so little money to buy it with.

 

[CStroman]

I'm gonna wait. It will probably be back down in a few weeks.

 

[StandardCell]

<< I'm gonna wait. It will probably be back down in a few weeks. >>



It will eventually go down. The reason for the price rise is the introduction of Intel P4 DDR chipsets. There will be a demand spike and then it'll go down. Personally, I'm still waiting this out until I can encode MPEG-4 in real-time while being able to use my computer for other things with a single processor. Statements like "it's going up" are purely speculative, and I bet that a lot of people about to buy memory are going to feel sorry six months down the road.

 

[gopunk]

can somebody explain to me why it's such a sure thing the prices will go down, if they're already losing money at the prices right now?

 

[thebestMAX]

I really dont expect memory prices to go down in the forseeable future.

Suppy and manufacuturers / manufacturing is down and demand is rising.

There was a sweet spot but you missed it. I paid $28 for 256M of pc2100DDR (bought several) and dont expect to see that any time soon. (Also paid over a $100 at one time for 4M of ram)

See a bargain left today, I'd grab it!