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Thebolt · Sun Apr 25, 2004 3:21 pm

what the hell? Corsair XMS 3200 512 used to cost like 120 tops, now its 161, the mushkin i was going to buy for 141 is now 195...when will these crazy prices return to normal. I am reffering to newegg prices

Sun Apr 25, 2004 3:42 pm

I just ordered corsiar 512 valueRAM 2.5cas for $96, used to be $82

I heard it won't be going down soon, so I bought it now

Player Hater · Sun Apr 25, 2004 5:48 pm

Memory prices started skyrocketing about 40 days ago. I bought a 512 stick of Geil pc3200 for 80$ about 45 days ago. I'm glad I did. It is $100 now

the_silver_bullet24 · Sun Apr 25, 2004 9:39 pm

Yeah RAM prices sure have jumped. Its a shame.

dVeLoPe · Sun Apr 25, 2004 10:33 pm

OMFG

I was planning on purchasing 1GB(512x2) of Kingston ValueRAM @ TG for 190$ and now they have it listed as 285$ WTF this sucks

absurdity · Sun Apr 25, 2004 10:38 pm

I think this was a front page post a little bit ago, but apparently a lot of memory manufacturers are switching a lot of their production over to flash memory, which cuts into the production of RAM, and thusly, we have higher prices, with a lower supply out there.

dVeLoPe · Sun Apr 25, 2004 11:00 pm

absurdity wrote:
apparently a lot of memory manufacturers are switching a lot of their production over to flash memory

WTF? Huh?

the_silver_bullet24 · Sun Apr 25, 2004 11:47 pm

dVeLoPe wrote:
absurdity wrote:
apparently a lot of memory manufacturers are switching a lot of their production over to flash memory

WTF? Huh?

They are making flash memory more now. Like Secure Digital and Memory Stick?

dVeLoPe · Mon Apr 26, 2004 12:33 am

Well they **** suck and need to keep making DDR memory...

UberGerbil · Mon Apr 26, 2004 1:13 am

There's mroe demand for flash -- all those fancy camera cell phones and mp3 players etc -- and better profits. Considering how tough profits are to come by in that business, it's not surprising the mfrs have changed their mix to emphasize flash. Of course that reduction in supply increases plain old DDR prices, too, which is a nice bonus for them. They're also in the midst of a transition to DDR2 and 110nm process, which depresses yields and drives up costs. This isn't the first time we've had temporary inflation in the memory biz. Prices will stay up probably for the rest of the year, but at some point they'll have made the transition and they'll start undercutting each other to get wins and the dropping prices will return.

Still, last year's prices aren't bad. They're just not January's prices. We're spoiled.

Mon Apr 26, 2004 3:32 am

Plus this is the time for people to upgrade and buy new computers for next years school season. So there is more demand for memory, and of course the price goes up. Plus after the beating the memory makers were taking for the last year, they are happy to keep the prices high again.

Mon Apr 26, 2004 6:43 am

dVeLoPe, if it'll make you feel any better, when I built my first PC, I paid ~$250 for 16K (yeah that's K, as in kilobyte) of RAM. At those prices, that 1GB of RAM you were looking at would cost something like $15 million! :lol:

Granted, that was ~25 years ago... but my point is that if you ignore the short-term fluctuations, the general trend in memory prices has always been down, in a really big way. As UberGerbil says, this is just temporary. Once the next generation production process is stable the DRAM makers will start another price war, and prices will head down again.

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