DDR3 And DDR4 Prices Keep Falling

Megalith · Oct 3, 2015

RAM may be becoming cheaper to buy but sales havent gone up, and this article suggests that manufacturers will likely suffer in the long run.

a recent study from DRAMeXchange showed that SO-DIMM module prices keep falling every few months, with just a 3% price reduction for 4GB DDR4 SO-DIMMs from August to September, while an even greater reduction occurred from May to August of 4.76%. These sort of numbers add up over time, and show how badly affected were the hardware manufacturers this year

ManofGod · Oct 3, 2015

And it is about damn time I say.

Parmenides · Oct 3, 2015

hard to feel sympathy after all that price gouging after the shortage.

ReconSniper · Oct 3, 2015

Well, I plan on grabbing 16 gb of DDR4 as soon as I build me new rig. Time is right.

BroHamBone · Oct 3, 2015

Hrm, waiting for my x2 8g kit to be on sale...and not egg 10% type

DejaWiz · Oct 3, 2015

RAM prices dropping? Well then, queue the planned factory accident in 3...2...

Ashbringer · Oct 3, 2015

chaikovski2002 · Oct 3, 2015

DejaWiz said:
RAM prices dropping? Well then, queue the planned factory accident in 3...2...

Yeah what happened to the floods and shit?

temujin987 · Oct 3, 2015

good, now skylake prices need to drop. they actually have been going up here in austria

amdfan25 · Oct 3, 2015

Parmenides said:
hard to feel sympathy after all that price gouging after the shortage.

Exactly.

Now there will be another incident and prices go flying though the roof again...

SparkedFire · Oct 3, 2015

temujin987 said:
good, now skylake prices need to drop. they actually have been going up here in austria

Monopoly.

avinash60 · Oct 3, 2015

Just built a skylake based system about a fortnight back since I got this nice little deal from newegg:
ASRock Z170 Extreme7+ Motherboard + 16GB (2 x 8GB) CORSAIR Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 (PC4 24000) Desktop Memory $309.98

All together the price came to about 1200$ (https://pchound.com/ZyHcvy/)- though I'd say DDR4 is still a little too expensive since it is new in the market. I really like the 6600K though, easy overclock to 4.4GHz without a lot of hassles.

Zepher · Oct 3, 2015

avinash60 said:
Just built a skylake based system about a fortnight back since I got this nice little deal from newegg:
ASRock Z170 Extreme7+ Motherboard + 16GB (2 x 8GB) CORSAIR Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 (PC4 24000) Desktop Memory $309.98

All together the price came to about 1200$ (https://pchound.com/ZyHcvy/)- though I'd say DDR4 is still a little too expensive since it is new in the market. I really like the 6600K though, easy overclock to 4.4GHz without a lot of hassles.

your link was messed up,
https://pchound.com/ZyHcvy/

GushpinBob · Oct 3, 2015

Still can't find 24GB (6x4GB) for less than $90, which is what I paid for that exact amount back in 2011. Sorry, they may be coming down but as a consumer RAM prices still kinda suck.

Lord of Shadows · Oct 3, 2015

So I can finally afford to run chrome

Tremulant · Oct 4, 2015

avinash60 said:
Just built a skylake based system about a fortnight back since I got this nice little deal from newegg:
ASRock Z170 Extreme7+ Motherboard + 16GB (2 x 8GB) CORSAIR Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 (PC4 24000) Desktop Memory $309.98

All together the price came to about 1200$ (https://pchound.com/ZyHcvy/)- though I'd say DDR4 is still a little too expensive since it is new in the market. I really like the 6600K though, easy overclock to 4.4GHz without a lot of hassles.

Still kicking myself for not jumping on that. Something else will turn up soon enough though. This has been such a weird chip release, lots of hype from review sites but few chips available to hear how users feel about it(6700k that is). This will inevitably be the platform I upgrade to.

Deleted member 12106 · Oct 4, 2015

Good, I'd like to buy enough to get both boxes to 96gb+

ManofGod · Oct 4, 2015

sc0tty8 said:
Good, I'd like to buy enough to get both boxes to 96gb+

Here I was thinking that having 32GB in both my boxes were a big deal.

ManofGod · Oct 4, 2015

Quote from article:

"Although these are in the end good news for the customer, it isn’t however for the manufacturer, since he’ll end up selling high-end pieces of technology for bread crumbs and will go broke. This issue will in turn affect other manufacturers, and will eventually lead to a larger domino effect that will risk endangering the entire South-Asian market."

Give me a freaking break.

So, when we could buy 32 GB of DDR3 ram back in 2012, why didn't everything fall apart then? Sometimes, I think the final conclusions are not very well thought out.

ManofGod · Oct 4, 2015

ManofGod said:
Quote from article:

"Although these are in the end good news for the customer, it isnt however for the manufacturer, since hell end up selling high-end pieces of technology for bread crumbs and will go broke. This issue will in turn affect other manufacturers, and will eventually lead to a larger domino effect that will risk endangering the entire South-Asian market."

Give me a freaking break. So, when we could buy 32 GB of DDR3 ram back in 2012, why didn't everything fall apart then? Sometimes, I think the final conclusions are not very well thought out.

32GB of ram back in 2012 for $110 I meant.

dgz · Oct 4, 2015

Call me when they get back to 2011 levels. I remember buying 8 gigs in March for what I thought was a good price but it was literally 50% lower just a few months later. It was crazy.

sc0tty8 said:
Good, I'd like to buy enough to get both boxes to 96gb+

this can't be for personal use only, right?

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