DDR memory for sale !!

[dakost]

Thats the first place that i've seen seeling PC-2100 DDR memory : http://ocz.safeshopper.com/

At the price of $219 for 128 MB dimms ... woou !
For comparison, pc133 2:2:2 128 Mb dimms at crusial are around $92, while the same place sells pc150 2:2:2 128 Mb at $110 and according to Sharky's 'weekly memory prices' Rambus PC800 128mb goes at around $170

$219 for PC-2100 DDR 128 MB dimms ... thats either a rip-off or an opportunistic move driven by the law of demand ... or the various hardware review sites on the web have their facts about DDR beeing only 10-15% more expensive than pc133 sdram wrong !

 

[Spook]

We'll see, it is the first showing of DDR Ram so far... Give it a little time before it drops, I didn't expect much better...

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[Imported]

I saw it at Memman yesterday..

 

[goog]

Corsair PC2100 DDR $237 for 128MB at memman, shipping to start in 2-3 days apparently.
Since my PC133 is still on order I'm kinda glad its that much right now, otherwise I'd be pissed.

 

[Sohcan]

<< the various hardware review sites on the web have their facts about DDR beeing only 10-15% more expensive than pc133 sdram wrong >>

Or it could be that as it has just appeared on the market, the supply is low and the demand is high. When the P4 first started appearing on Pricewatch, many vendors listed the 1.5GHz P4 at around $1500. After a few weeks, it settled to around the official Intel price of $800.

The 10-15% cost premium is based on the fact that DDR SDRAM costs little more to make than SDR SDRAM.

 

[XMan]

Word of caution - OCZ has had some problems delivering product. They also had a company employee give them a positive evaluation a while back on R.R. - a big nono. Reseller Ratings Comments

If you need DDR quickly, you might be better served to go through Memory Man or Crucial.

Anandtech forum discussion on OCZ #1

There were a couple of other discussions ongoing, and there are links to them in the forum thread, but they must be archived as they no longer seem to work.

 

[dakost]

True, its early days for DDR, but at the moment its even more expensive than Rambus !! From what i've read here and there on the net i think that no one really expected that.

 

[dakost]

And nope, i have no intention to buy DDR memory at the moment. Maybe around February after a couple of mobos have been out and a couple of more tests &amp; reviews have been published. I still didn't expect DDR to
be more expensive than rambus though, even at its early stages.

 

[XMan]

It's not that much more expensive. The store in question is just implementing a pretty heft markup for memory that you can't even plug into a motherboard yet.

Crucial DDR Prices

 

[RagingGuardian]

Aren't the Crucial modules engineering samples?

 

[goog]

Yeah the Crucial prices for consumers may be higher than the current prices which are engineering samples and supposed to be for sale to developers only.
Don't count on the prices staying that low once the public can buy them, but it is quite possible, anyway by next year they should be about those prices.

 

[Nkcowboy]

ddr...interesting..

 

[AndyHui]

About time.....but that's way too expensive.

I won an ASUS PC2100 DDR motherboard (probably the CUV266....doesn't say) in ASUS' Comdex Challenge thing last month.....should be coming in this week or the next. I think I will wait for the prices to drop a bit before loading up my new board.