God damnit, I'm running on 1GB of ram right now. It's fucking frustrating.
Why do prices go up whenever I need something?
Major bottleneck = 3 x 9800GTX, 1 x 8800GT, Q6600
I noticed that too when I was curious how much my PC was worth and I looked for all the parts in a webshop and the cheapest 2x2GB RAM kit I could find was >80€ when I bought some quality 2x2GB RAM kit for 45€ in August.
looks like im gonna be sticking with my 3 gig of DDR2 for some time
I'm glad I upgraded to 4x1GB sicks in 2008 from G.Skill back when it was $67... I'm not paying $80+ for 4GB of DDR2, that's just ridiculous.
I paid 30€ for 1GB DDR2 667mhz stick when I bought my computer, then bought 1gb more for ~20€ later. Then I bought my friends 2GB set for 10€ when he got faster 4GB set
Crap this is what happens when major companies try to push consumers to buy into new technology. My q6600 @ 3.5 ghz still rapes and my 8800gt is starting to show age but at 1280x1024 it will be good for awhile.
Its just Ddr3 ram was pushed to fast into the market now they have lots of it and nobody is buying in, well they are but slowly, so us people with perfectly fine computers have to pay high prices for ram because it is the one thing that you upgrade that can be locked between technology waves.
DDr2 is last gen ddr3 is this gen and by making ddr2 pricey they can force us to move.
The ram I was planning on buying for my computer which I'm getting next week went up $60 :argh:
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I'm off to find a suitable ddr3 motherboard thanks to those damn ram commies
Wow, I might be able to get 4GB of DDR2-800 for [b]only[/b] $80 CAD. What a deal! :downs:
And no, I don't want a new motherboard. This one is fine.
:( I just made a build with ddr2, should I upgrade my mobo so I may use ddr3?
What the fuck?
I got that [b]exact same RAM[/b] for I think $40 last year.
WOH, so cool that my 2x 2gb ddr2 I got free is worth 80$ now.
How the fuck did it go up? That doesn't make sense.
Looks like that RAM drive will have to wait... -_-
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You are fucking stupid.
[QUOTE=Roast Beast;18124305]I just checked the DDR3 I bought about 3 weeks ago, it's gone up a couple of bucks.[/QUOTE]
Interesting, in the three days since I posted this it's gone up another couple of bucks.
I guess it's not just DDR2 that's getting more expensive.
I got 4gigs for 30$ a while ago.
Lucky me.
May be a problem with the companies that produce them then.
Hurr, read through many of these. All a bit out here and there, so time for an extremely five month late answer :ninja:
Straight Answer: It's the same way DDR costs a lot now and SDR as well. They stop producing the ram as much so the price goes up as DDR3 is going down due to increased production. DDR2 production is ramping down in favour of DDR3, any new DDR2 produced now is priced higher than previous in order to push adoption of DDR3.
not worth the bump, nice job
Companies pusht he newer product, DDR3. Plus all the new CPUS and chipsets use DDR3.
rise in price has to do with lower demand, everyone wants DDR3 and DDR2 has gotten more expensive because not many people want it so it costs more to produce, same thing happened to DDR
Holy fuck! The 4GB Crucial kit I bought around the middle of last year has jumped from the £45 I paid to £105 on the same site. I mean, I knew prices had gone up a fair bit, but that's ridiculous...
I know... It seems strange that I bought 4GB of DDR2 (SO-DIMMs) for my laptop last year for only $45, now it's more like $75.
It's not just DDR2 that's getting more expensive. The DDR3 that I bought for my main system went up $20 in 4 months.
A 32mb (yes, megabytes) DDR2 stick recently set me back $25....
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[QUOTE=pentium;20670903]A 32mb (yes, megabytes) DDR2 stick recently set me back $25....
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I'm surprised that 32MB DDR2 was made at all...
[QUOTE=Roast Beast;20669568]It's not just DDR2 that's getting more expensive. The DDR3 that I bought for my main system went up $20 in 4 months.[/QUOTE]
you would think DDR3 prices would drop a bit to get more sales, but people obviously don't understand supply and demand. :/
I bought 2 512MB DDR sticks from a friend who didn't want them for $10 a couple days ago. Needed to upgrade an old computer I got for free from 256 MB to 1 GB (hooray for no more hard drive thrashing!). Now I'm glad I asked him if he had any.
Looked on Newegg, the cheapest 2 512MB DDR combos they have are $30. No way I would spend that much.
I have 2 sticks of the light-blue gskill ddr2-800 that newegg is selling for ~90 (2x2gb) and noone near me wants to buy it from me for half price :(
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