Will DDR3 prices conintue to climb?

Eran Mayshar · Mar 19, 2014

A year ago I put off buying 8GB or ram because 4 was serving me fine. I now regret that choice as the prices have gone up. I also know why they went up. I had hoped that after 7 months the prices would have stopped rising, perhaps even lower a little. Instead they've just gotten more expensive.

What I'm wondering is, should I expect the prices to be even higher by the summertime or will they be as they are now/lower? What do you think?

daswilhelm · Mar 19, 2014

as ddr4 is introduced, ddr3 production goes down, and the price goes up.

Eran Mayshar · Mar 19, 2014

daswilhelm :

Does that mean the price will go up even more by the fall or should I expect that to start happening after?

daswilhelm · Mar 19, 2014

can't garauntee anything, its like the stock market. but i would recommend buying now, as prices rarely go down when production slows.

Tradesman1 · Mar 19, 2014

The DRAM makers are already starting production of DDR4, as they gear up more production lines for that, the DDR3 will continue to rise in price, the Memory chips themselves are being binned/picked across for for DDR4 sticks as we speak, DDR4 will run on less voltage

Eran Mayshar · Mar 19, 2014

And my motherboard does not support DDR4 I suppose so I'd either have to get a whole new motherboard or buy ram at it's current extortionate price!

daswilhelm · Mar 19, 2014

Eran Mayshar :

considering my first ram upgrade was 4meg and that cost me $220, i wouldn't say ram prices are that high these days.

Tradesman1 · Mar 19, 2014

daswilhelm :

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Early 90's, remember them well

386 or 486?

daswilhelm · Mar 19, 2014

Tradesman1 :

daswilhelm :

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Early 90's, remember them well

386 or 486?

486sx-25mhz. upgraded from 4meg to 8meg, what a world of difference that made!

Tradesman1 · Mar 19, 2014

Oh yeah, I had a bunch of 486/33s at the Park Service site I worked at, and was constantly scrambling for project money to upgrade DRAM

daswilhelm · Mar 19, 2014

those were the days. and damn that 640k conventional barrier!

Tradesman1 · Mar 19, 2014

Thank god for ...Lotus, the Expanded memory thing what was it LIM spec?) led into extended memory

daswilhelm · Mar 19, 2014

not sure, all i remember about extended mem was to make sure himem.sys was loading.

Tradesman1 · Mar 19, 2014

that and thing it was EMM386 allowed you to access the reserved CGA and EGA memory along with the page frame (even remember the memory address E000-EFFF, good god that's been eons ago, would dig around to find a few bytes that could be opened up LOL!

daswilhelm · Mar 19, 2014

haha, yep. boot disks galore!

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