wtf happenned to RAM prices?

[amdhunter]

Makes me want to just get a laptop and screw rebuilding my system. Did the US invade Taiwan or something..? WTF? Just a few weeks ago, I remember I could get 4GB of DDR2 for ~$200.

Just what the hell happenned?

 

[BobDaMenkey]

That's a good question. It all did take a jump didn't it?

 

[Steve]

All the RAM makers are being hit with big fines for conspiring to drive RAM prices up a few years ago. Class-action lawsuits, baby!

 

[mugs]

<old codger>quit your pissing and moaning, in my day I paid $150 for 4 MB of RAM!</old codger>

 

[Queasy]

"Big Oil" decided to get into the memory business so now they are driving up RAM prices to boost their obscenely criminal profits.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: mugs
<old codger>quit your pissing and moaning, in my day I paid $150 for 4 MB of RAM!</old codger>

that is right, january 1993 , i built my first home made PC and went for 8 MB of RAM at $150 per 1 MB, $1200 just for the RAM

$359 for the 200 MB hard drive

 

[Kaido]

Yup, just paid $195 for 2 gigs of DDR400 for my latest build. I paid $150 for 2gb of ddr667 laptop ram a month or two ago for crying out loud

 

[BobDaMenkey]

Originally posted by: sm8000
All the RAM makers are being hit with big fines for conspiring to drive RAM prices up a few years ago. Class-action lawsuits, baby!

Wonderful corperate redundancy!

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: Kaido
Yup, just paid $195 for 2 gigs of DDR400 for my latest build. I paid $150 for 2gb of ddr667 laptop ram a month or two ago for crying out loud

Price Gouging!! I demand congressional investigations!

 

[SparkyJJO]

supply and demand. Supply of DDR is going down because companies are switching over to DDR2 so those prices are higher. However DDR2 prices are also higher because even though more of it is being made now the demand went up quite a bit because of AM2 and C2D both using it and people upgrading to it.

 

[JS80]

you can thank rambus for that

 

[mpitts]

Originally posted by: mugs
<old codger>quit your pissing and moaning, in my day I paid $150 for 4 MB of RAM!</old codger>

$150?! You must have gotten it on sale.

 

[daveymark]

Originally posted by: mugs
<old codger>quit your pissing and moaning, in my day I paid $150 for 4 MB of RAM!</old codger>

and we walked barefoot in the snow uphill both ways to get the ram at the egghead store....and we liked it!

on a side note, guess it's time to sell all that ram I've got laying around!

 

[Rock Hydra]

Originally posted by: daveymark

Originally posted by: mugs
<old codger>quit your pissing and moaning, in my day I paid $150 for 4 MB of RAM!</old codger>

and we walked barefoot in the snow uphill both ways to get the ram at the egghead store....and we liked it!

on a side note, guess it's time to sell all that ram I've got laying around!

Prices are up! Sell, sell, sell!

 

[amdhunter]

Originally posted by: sm8000
All the RAM makers are being hit with big fines for conspiring to drive RAM prices up a few years ago. Class-action lawsuits, baby!

Is this for real? I am so effin disappointed right now. I didn't expect to pay so much for RAM for my new system. (I wanted to spend more elsewhere, like the GPU.)

Crap, it seems that everytime I want to purchase a new system from scratch, I pick the times when prices are sky high...

FS/FT, here I come.

 

[SophalotJack]

Originally posted by: mugs
<old codger>quit your pissing and moaning, in my day I paid $150 for 4 MB of RAM!</old codger>

And had to walk 20 miles in 4 feet of snow to get it!

 

[jlbenedict]

Originally posted by: Rock Hydra

Originally posted by: daveymark

Originally posted by: mugs
<old codger>quit your pissing and moaning, in my day I paid $150 for 4 MB of RAM!</old codger>

and we walked barefoot in the snow uphill both ways to get the ram at the egghead store....and we liked it!

on a side note, guess it's time to sell all that ram I've got laying around!

Prices are up! Sell, sell, sell!

Thats what I was thinking.. I wonder how much longer I should hold on to 2GB's of DDR

 

[ArchCenturion]

Take it to the Fat Cats in Washington

 

[Steve]

Originally posted by: amdhunter

Originally posted by: sm8000
All the RAM makers are being hit with big fines for conspiring to drive RAM prices up a few years ago. Class-action lawsuits, baby!

Is this for real? I am so effin disappointed right now. I didn't expect to pay so much for RAM for my new system. (I wanted to spend more elsewhere, like the GPU.)

Crap, it seems that everytime I want to purchase a new system from scratch, I pick the times when prices are sky high...

FS/FT, here I come.

Yep:
Names
Infineon
Samsung
Hynix
Micron

 

[Raduque]

Originally posted by: sm8000

Originally posted by: amdhunter

Originally posted by: sm8000
All the RAM makers are being hit with big fines for conspiring to drive RAM prices up a few years ago. Class-action lawsuits, baby!

Is this for real? I am so effin disappointed right now. I didn't expect to pay so much for RAM for my new system. (I wanted to spend more elsewhere, like the GPU.)

Crap, it seems that everytime I want to purchase a new system from scratch, I pick the times when prices are sky high...

FS/FT, here I come.

Yep:
Names
Infineon
Samsung
Hynix
Micron

Plus in the couple weeks following C2D release, demand for DDR2-800 shot up, so prices shot up to match. Time to hit them for gouging again.

 

[Baked]

I bought my 2GB for $180 before MIR of $50. So even if I don't get my MIR, I still got a good deal based on the current RAM pricing.

 

[SuperSix]

Originally posted by: sm8000
All the RAM makers are being hit with big fines for conspiring to drive RAM prices up a few years ago. Class-action lawsuits, baby!

Correct.

So what the manufacturers are doing (not the assemblers, like Corsair, Kingston, PDP, etc...) is limiting supply to the assemblers, causing shortages. I can't get more than 50pcs (per SKU) of DDR2 at a pop from Corsair - I used to be able to order all I wanted. They have daily allocations,a nd onece they get to that, they won't sell anymore to us.

Then - market gets tight, prices go up, and the manufacturers now have the extra $$$ to pay the fines! How fsckin nice! :|

 

[Dunbar]

Why do you need 4 gigs of RAM?

 

[Baked]

Originally posted by: Dunbar
Why do you need 4 gigs of RAM?

+ e-penis, what else.