memory prices

[stickybytes]

they have skyrocketed? what happened? i was looking a pair of corsair 3200 128mb ram about 4 months ago and it was around 150. Now it's up to 215. What happened? A shortage or something?

 

[acebake]

I'm not sure--I heard a rumor that it was because of the war, but you never know...

 

[mrwxyz]

Originally posted by: acebake
I'm not sure--I heard a rumor that it was because of the war, but you never know...

yes, instability in iraq has led to fears of memory shortage since the country itself sits on beds of ddr deposits.

the best reason i've heard is that since ddr2 is quite expensive compared to ddr, by raising ddr prices consumers will be more willing to accept ddr2 since it will be newer tech at relativly similar prices

 

[Hyperlite]

well man that suuuuuuuuuuuucks. yes, i have indeed noticed that ram prices are insane at the moment. IE, 512meg pc3200 Kingston Hyper-X, though it is good stuff, is $145 a stick at Newegg...didn't think it used to be that much..

 

[Markfw]

I heard that a very large "batch" of memory was bad at a major memory mfg, and the shortage caused the price hike. Just rumor though.

 

[KillaKilla]

Originally posted by: mrwxyz

Originally posted by: acebake
I'm not sure--I heard a rumor that it was because of the war, but you never know...

yes, instability in iraq has led to fears of memory shortage since the country itself sits on beds of ddr deposits.

And wit hinsurgents attacking memory production and transport, there is more and more loos of porducts, increasing prices.

Prices will als oprobobly go up during the summer' randomly accesing memory' season...

Edit: it could also be because americans are unwilling to accept more mermory efficient OSes, like linux, over their safer, bigger, and slower windows counterparts.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Markfw900
I heard that a very large "batch" of memory was bad at a major memory mfg, and the shortage caused the price hike. Just rumor though.

That would be Micron. I'm pretty sure it's more than a rumor, I remembered reading about it in a pretty authoritative place...

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: KillaKillaEdit: it could also be because americans are unwilling to accept more mermory efficient OSes, like linux, over their safer, bigger, and slower windows counterparts.

KDE, Gnome, XFCE, and other monstorous Desktop Environments sit much better on 512MB+ of ram than 256MB. Most people out there want big, not efficient.

 

[bmacd]

i bought some SDram from Staples back in Dec. of 2003 and returned it the other day...jumped from $39 when i paid for it to $69 when i returned it!

On a seperate note, i'm stuck with RDram in this computer...and the prices are outrageous!

-=bmacd=-

 

[Zimdesign]

I have been looking at prices for a while now (I am going to build myself a system in the coming weeks, was waiting for the A64 2800+) and I also noticed the ramping up of RAM prices. I was going to start a thread about it, but I figured I would ask my question here instead:

Since these price hikes seem to be caused by a shortage and/or the advent of DDR2, any chance of the prices going back down in the near future? What do you guys think?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Prices always rise this time of year. Usually in a month or two they go back down. Don't expect them to go back down to where they were, but I'm hoping for a decent drop "real soon now."

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: KillaKillaEdit: it could also be because americans are unwilling to accept more mermory efficient OSes, like linux, over their safer, bigger, and slower windows counterparts.

KDE, Gnome, XFCE, and other monstorous Desktop Environments sit much better on 512MB+ of ram than 256MB. Most people out there want big, not efficient.

command line man, command line interface all the way

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: KillaKillaEdit: it could also be because americans are unwilling to accept more mermory efficient OSes, like linux, over their safer, bigger, and slower windows counterparts.

KDE, Gnome, XFCE, and other monstorous Desktop Environments sit much better on 512MB+ of ram than 256MB. Most people out there want big, not efficient.

command line man, command line interface all the way

Having 4 xterms opened per desktop, each running screen is more efficient than 1 console running screen.

 

[Swanny]

Originally posted by: mrwxyz

Originally posted by: acebake
I'm not sure--I heard a rumor that it was because of the war, but you never know...

yes, instability in iraq has led to fears of memory shortage since the country itself sits on beds of ddr deposits.

the best reason i've heard is that since ddr2 is quite expensive compared to ddr, by raising ddr prices consumers will be more willing to accept ddr2 since it will be newer tech at relativly similar prices

Yes, and that idiot Bush won't release the nation's strategic DDR reserves to help curb prices!

 

[mrwxyz]

Originally posted by: Swanny

Originally posted by: mrwxyz

Originally posted by: acebake
I'm not sure--I heard a rumor that it was because of the war, but you never know...

yes, instability in iraq has led to fears of memory shortage since the country itself sits on beds of ddr deposits.

the best reason i've heard is that since ddr2 is quite expensive compared to ddr, by raising ddr prices consumers will be more willing to accept ddr2 since it will be newer tech at relativly similar prices

Yes, and that idiot Bush won't release the nation's strategic DDR reserves to help curb prices!

the reserves are there in case the terrorists destroy the ddr in american counterterrorist equipment

 

[KillaKilla]

Originally posted by: mrwxyz

Originally posted by: Swanny

Originally posted by: mrwxyz

Originally posted by: acebake
I'm not sure--I heard a rumor that it was because of the war, but you never know...

yes, instability in iraq has led to fears of memory shortage since the country itself sits on beds of ddr deposits.

the best reason i've heard is that since ddr2 is quite expensive compared to ddr, by raising ddr prices consumers will be more willing to accept ddr2 since it will be newer tech at relativly similar prices

Yes, and that idiot Bush won't release the nation's strategic DDR reserves to help curb prices!

the reserves are there in case the terrorists destroy the ddr in american counterterrorist equipment

*rides in on red white and blue elephant, stabs MRWXYZ with an unbelievably long DDR DIMM, leaves*

 

[lowpost]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: KillaKillaEdit: it could also be because americans are unwilling to accept more mermory efficient OSes, like linux, over their safer, bigger, and slower windows counterparts.

KDE, Gnome, XFCE, and other monstorous Desktop Environments sit much better on 512MB+ of ram than 256MB. Most people out there want big, not efficient.

but everyone eventually finds flux, so they resolve those issues

 

[tkistre]

I may be wrong, but I belive when prices first started rising, I read an article in Reuter's or TechWeb that stated Infineon was cutting production. I don't remember the reason they were cutting production, but the article did state that this would cause a shortage in the market and cause prices to rise. I know they are one of the top 3 manufacturers of memory.

 

[imported_intercollector]

While they've skyrocketed for the past 3 months or so, I've noticed in the last 2 or 3 weeks they've started to drop. Almost consistently every 2 or 3 days it drops a little bit more, which has actually turned out to be about a 5-10% drop over the past 2 weeks. While prices always fluctuate, I believe we have seen the highest prices we will see, and as ddr2 starts getting more and more common, the prices will eventually drop to where they were before.

Hopefully by the middle of the summer, I can actually afford memory.

 

[Nickel020]

According to The Inquirer prices will drop again soon.