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Will memory prices decrease in the near future?

T

The Green Bean

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I wanted to add a Gig of RAM to my northwood 3.0GHZ and was wondering o RAM prices will decrease within the next 2-3 months. I currently have 512MB.
 
Obsolescent RAM will be less - the market dictates the price. The good stuff will rise along with everything else as long as the demand for it is there.

And, RAM really is not rediculously priced at present. It was rediculously cheap a while back, but the market got healthy again.
 
Ram prices are very volatile.
Nobody really knows what the market is going to do for sure.
It will maybe go up, it will maybe go down. There's no knowing.
 
Ram prices are like oil, once I bought 2gb of PC3200 a few years ago. Within a week the price had went up about 30%. Good luck trying to predict it. Samsung tried to bring some stability to it and look where it got their executive😉
 
Well, I'll let you know when I buy some again. The last few times I purchased ram there's been a big increase in price... Guess those two sticks I get really tip the scale. Unfortunately I have no plans to get new RAM for a couple years... If that changes though I'll let you know!
 
Originally posted by: GalvanizedYankee
Yes, prices will fall because Samsung pleads to price fixing once again.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/25/another_samsung_exec_guilty/


...Galvanized
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My theory is the price rise is *because* of the price fixing lawsuits. Instead of dipping into their pockets to pay the fines, the are constricting supply, causing the market to rise, raising module pricing.

I buy for directly from Corsair and Kingston, and there's daily allotments, and if you don't get your order in before the cutoff, you don't get your order. We will try to order, say, 100 pieces of Kingston 512MB DDR400, and they will only sell us 30-50 pieces, and we are one of their larger distributors. :|

I hear that there will be no real drops until late December, if they drop at all.

The days of dirt cheap *quality* memory are over for awhile, I think Vista will drive up or stabilize many different hardware categories pricing.

Something needs to be done, the margins are getting so slim, I believe many companies will have trouble sustaining revenue with the price drops (hard drives come to mind)

 
i was chatting with some mushkin rep, and he teold me that mushkin had ordered 75,000 chips ( i am assuming from elpida), but they only recieved 7,000 of them.
 
Originally posted by: dharm
i was chatting with some mushkin rep, and he teold me that mushkin had ordered 75,000 chips ( i am assuming from elpida), but they only recieved 7,000 of them.
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Yep - and they aren't even saying a plant burned down or some other nonsense.
 
About a month and a half ago, I ordered a pair of OCZ Platinum 1GB DDR2-800 modules from Newegg in a dual-channel kit for $200. The exact same memory is now $270 on Newegg, and has been that way for a month.

Yikes!
 
Historically, RAM prices rise temporarily as new RAM designs come to market. Right now, the manufacturers are switching their processes to make DDR2 and the conversion takes time and money and temporarily limits their production, increasing prices.

RAM is a commodity item and the price is highly dependent on supply and demand.
 
glad i got my ram back in march when it was "cheap"...now a 2 gig pair costs you nearly $300. The PC markets are never friendly to consumers..if it isn't cpus, it's ram, or motherboards. Seems like it is best to wait until platforms mature to get the best prices.
 
I can't answer your question, but I'm still happy to have gotten 2 gigs of Corsair TWINX2048-3200C2PT XMS3200 Platinum for $135. I'd say just shop around and look for something good with a rebate.
 
In all honesty, I'd bet that around the new year or right after Christmas prices for most memory should fall a tad. As far as DDR prices falling to what they were, $100-$150 for 2GB, I am not sure we'll ever see that again since C2D and AM2 is now getting much more attention.
 
RAM pricing is kinda weird these days

i'd say once vista comes out prices will increase cause of the increased demand but really 'normal' DDR should decrease as DDR2 yields improve and supply increases....
 
Funny thing is I had 2x1GB Patriot DDR400 Cas2 memory for sale on the FS forum about a month ago.

The memory was BRAND NEW, used for ONE WEEK and I was asking $85/each. I paid 97/each for the memory. NO ONE wanted it for $85.00/each - I was shocked.

Now a little down the road that same memory brand new is $125/each.

People are SO cheap.
 
I bought 1 gig of DDR2 value RAM for by conroe build. I paid $89 back in August. It climbed to a high of $128. I noticed a few days ago it had dropped to $114. I just checked and it is back to $125.
 
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