RAM price right now is insanely expensive and I was hoping to expend to 32 GB of RAM for a few reasons (Gaming in virtual machines, multi tasking, possibly animation and sound production in the future, RAMdisks, etc). So should I wait for prices to go down? or will they keep increasing?
Should I buy 32 GB of RAM now or hope that prices go down somewhat soon?
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Unfortunately prices are not set to decline until 2019 and are suppose to continue to increase until end of 2018. Its crazy last summer I built an I7 5820 system for a friend and he wanted to go all out for his gaming rig and opted for 64 gigs of ram. He paid $144.89 Canadian per 32 gig kit for a total of $289.78 for 64 gigs total in July 2016. This summer I upgraded to a Ryzen 7 system and I paid $ $168 Canadian for 1x16 gig stick my 32 gig kit cost me $336.00 total !! Last week I checked on the same G.skill kit maybe considering to snatch up another 32 gig kit if they were cheap, to my surprise the sticks were selling for $254.99 
Canadian each !!! WTF !! Get your ram now even if you can just afford 1 stick of 8 or 1 stick of 16...
Canadian each !!! WTF !! Get your ram now even if you can just afford 1 stick of 8 or 1 stick of 16...
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Unfortunately prices are not set to decline until 2019 and are suppose to continue to increase until end of 2018. Its crazy last summer I built an I7 5820 system for a friend and he wanted to go all out for his gaming rig and opted for 64 gigs of ram. He paid $144.89 Canadian per 32 gig kit for a total of $289.78 for 64 gigs total in July 2016. This summer I upgraded to a Ryzen 7 system and I paid $ $168 Canadian for 1x16 gig stick my 32 gig kit cost me $336.00 total !! Last week I checked on the same G.skill kit maybe considering to snatch up another 32 gig kit if they were cheap, to my surprise the sticks were selling for $254.99 Canadian each !!! WTF !! Get your ram now even if you can just afford 1 stick of 8 or 1 stick of 16 and run in single channel , when prices drop grab another stick. That's what I'm going to do, and before anyone says I don't need 64 gigs of ram , I do 3D modeling and need the extra ram for software. I overpaid this summer but I'm glad I got them when I did just to avoid the current pricing. The sticks are on sale now for black Friday $199.99. Ram is just going to continue to increase. I personally think its price fixing but what can I say , I don't have any proof.
That's an article talking about ram prices only dropping in 2019
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3190137/computers/prices-of-ssds-and-dram-will-crash-in-2019-gartner-predicts.html
Canadian each !!! WTF !! Get your ram now even if you can just afford 1 stick of 8 or 1 stick of 16 and run in single channel , when prices drop grab another stick. That's what I'm going to do, and before anyone says I don't need 64 gigs of ram , I do 3D modeling and need the extra ram for software. I overpaid this summer but I'm glad I got them when I did just to avoid the current pricing. The sticks are on sale now for black Friday $199.99. Ram is just going to continue to increase. I personally think its price fixing but what can I say , I don't have any proof. That's an article talking about ram prices only dropping in 2019
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3190137/computers/prices-of-ssds-and-dram-will-crash-in-2019-gartner-predicts.html
MrMeth :
Unfortunately prices are not set to decline until 2019 and are suppose to continue to increase until end of 2018. Its crazy last summer I built an I7 5820 system for a friend and he wanted to go all out for his gaming rig and opted for 64 gigs of ram. He paid $144.89 Canadian per 32 gig kit for a total of $289.78 for 64 gigs total in July 2016. This summer I upgraded to a Ryzen 7 system and I paid $ $168 Canadian for 1x16 gig stick my 32 gig kit cost me $336.00 total !! Last week I checked on the same G.skill kit maybe considering to snatch up another 32 gig kit if they were cheap, to my surprise the sticks were selling for $254.99 Canadian each !!! WTF !! Get your ram now even if you can just afford 1 stick of 8 or 1 stick of 16 and run in single channel , when prices drop grab another stick. That's what I'm going to do, and before anyone says I don't need 64 gigs of ram , I do 3D modeling and need the extra ram for software. I overpaid this summer but I'm glad I got them when I did just to avoid the current pricing. The sticks are on sale now for black Friday $199.99. Ram is just going to continue to increase. I personally think its price fixing but what can I say , I don't have any proof.
That's an article talking about ram prices only dropping in 2019
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3190137/computers/prices-of-ssds-and-dram-will-crash-in-2019-gartner-predicts.html
Canadian each !!! WTF !! Get your ram now even if you can just afford 1 stick of 8 or 1 stick of 16 and run in single channel , when prices drop grab another stick. That's what I'm going to do, and before anyone says I don't need 64 gigs of ram , I do 3D modeling and need the extra ram for software. I overpaid this summer but I'm glad I got them when I did just to avoid the current pricing. The sticks are on sale now for black Friday $199.99. Ram is just going to continue to increase. I personally think its price fixing but what can I say , I don't have any proof. That's an article talking about ram prices only dropping in 2019
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3190137/computers/prices-of-ssds-and-dram-will-crash-in-2019-gartner-predicts.html
Wow I didn't realize that it is so bad that it's going to take until 2019! Thanks for the advice, i'll definitely be getting my RAM on black Friday, if possible I might even try to get another stick and sell it after black Friday as I could possibly earn a bit of money from doing that because of how insane the prices are right now.
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