at newegg practically all of the 240-pin memory is at very,very cheap prices. reminds me of back in the day when the 184-pin memory went on sale (think i paid $60 a gb). should i stock up or do you thinks its going to stay this low? Thats what i thought about the 184-pin ram when i bought it only to find it almost doubled in price a few months later. the reason i'm asking is because i'm still using 184-pin ram and intend on upgrading my system (cpu,mobo,and memory) in the future. should i buy the low priced memory now and hang on to it or just wait it out?
Personally I would wait until you have enough money to do the entire upgrade in one go, if you set a budget at say 1000 pounds/dollars and by the time you save the money components have changed (which is for certain) then distribute your available cash into components to that value. I see little point in buying components months apart as by the time you get them all together the technology has probably changed to something far better. Just gotta love the rate components change. Long story short : wait until you got the cash or get the cash elsewhere then buy. Happy hunting.
Because DDR3 is coming...
Large supply and lower demand. Also its older technology.
Virtually every new computer built has DDR2 Ram so its not low demand, its just because there's more available and because of competition.The#1Spot wrote:
Large supply and lower demand. Also its older technology.
RAM companies lowering their prices to ensure people buy their brand. Hell for the company, Heaven for the consumer.
Patriot dropped prices a while back (when I was building) I should have picked some of theirs up or waited, I overpaid by $100 on my 2 gb. damn, what can i do now though? No real reason to have 4 gb in a machine. It was the first time I heard anything about DDR3, and now the higher end graphics cards are all DDR3 so I think they are shifting prices in that direction.
Think its already out mate,=Karma-Kills= wrote:
Because DDR3 is coming...
Martyn
I read a story about Samsung, Hynix, Infineon and a few other companies being invloved in price fixing on DRAM.
I heard RAM price fluctuates just like gas prices.
=Karma-Kills= wrote:
Because DDR3 is coming...
Supply and demand.
Yeh but its not mainstream yet. Its on the horizion... damn i suck at phrasing what i think.Bell wrote:
Think its already out mate,=Karma-Kills= wrote:
Because DDR3 is coming...
Martyn
Ddr 3
Last edited by claor (2007-05-26 22:39:58)
Well i hope that ram price will stay at low, really low...
Well everyone is saying about DDR3. Have you seen the prices. They are through the roof. I read somewhere that 2GB of DDR3 is MORE EXPENCSIVE that getting the DirectX 10 Graphic cards. I would just get DDR2.
lawl. high-end DDR3 1333MHz with micron chips works @2080MHz!!!!!!! too bad it's very expensive....
actually you can buy a decent rig with DDR2 for the price of just DDR3
actually you can buy a decent rig with DDR2 for the price of just DDR3
3930K | H100i | RIVF | 16GB DDR3 | GTX 480 | AX750 | 800D | 512GB SSD | 3TB HDD | Xonar DX | W8
So the conclusion is do not wait for DDR3. Just get DDR2