Memory Prices are CRAZY!

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#1 violian
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So I was looking to buy another stick of 2GB RAM for my 2nd laptop on Newegg. In mid-August 2009, I bought a G-Skill 2GB DDR2 667 for $26 on sale w/ free shipping. The original price was $30. I was looking to buy the exact same RAM stick because I wanted the latencies to be the same. But upon checking back on Newegg for the same producttoday, it's now $46 w/ $6 shipping! I guess I'm just going to wait until summer in hopes the prices would drop back to before.

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#2 KLONE360
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Its ddr3. Its the market switching from ddr2 to ddr3 which will cause from here on ddr3 to get cheaper ddr2 to get more expensive.

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#3 bigfootstew
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Its ddr3. Its the market switching from ddr2 to ddr3 which will cause from here on ddr3 to get cheaper ddr2 to get more expensive.

KLONE360
True. As you will recall, DDR became incredibly expensive after DDR2 went into full production. But I also think the RAM prices are going back up to normal. The IC manufacturers massively overproduced DDR2 in 2006/2007 in anticipation of demand for Vista which never existed, and the RAM market essentially crashed, resulting in rock bottom prices.
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#4 violian
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Its ddr3. Its the market switching from ddr2 to ddr3 which will cause from here on ddr3 to get cheaper ddr2 to get more expensive.

KLONE360
Ah, that makes sense. So when manufacturers re-tool their plants to produce DDR3, the DDR2 market will be just feeding off of the remaining supplies of DDR2, which will then only get rarer and rarer. I've never thought of that. Thanks for bringing that up.
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[QUOTE="KLONE360"]

Its ddr3. Its the market switching from ddr2 to ddr3 which will cause from here on ddr3 to get cheaper ddr2 to get more expensive.

bigfootstew

True. As you will recall, DDR became incredibly expensive after DDR2 went into full production. But I also think the RAM prices are going back up to normal. The IC manufacturers massively overproduced DDR2 in 2006/2007 in anticipation of demand for Vista which never existed, and the RAM market essentially crashed, resulting in rock bottom prices.

Weren't DDR very cheap aswell at one point?