Why has DDR3 RAM gotten so expensive?

[PowerHaus930]

It's ridiculous that it's going for pretty much $10 a GB. When I got my 8GB of G.Skill 1600Mhz it was $55 and it has tighter timings then normal - 8-8-8-24. The same RAM now costs $80+ and so I guess I won't be upgrading anytime soon. I'd like to hear some other peoples opinions on this.

[Silicon Vampire]

Hahahaha. You should have tried buying a 512KB upgrade for an onboard ati card 20 years ago.

[PowerHaus930]

I remember when we had our first PC it cost $100 for a 4MB RAM upgrade. Isn't technology supposed to get cheaper the longer it has been out?

[{AMI}SirMisAlot]

ram is cheep compared to the past prices over alll

[PowerHaus930]

I agree with that but why has DDR3 gone up in the past year or so? Like I said I got my RAM for $55 and now the same exact RAM is more than $80. That's like an outdated processor or SSD going up in price 50% over the course of a year or so. It doesn't make any sense. Could it possibly have to do with the new consoles using more RAM?

[Slakter Fjes]

The RAM production has been hit much in the same way HDDs were hit 2 years ago. It has nothing to do with the coming consoles.

[PowerHaus930]

What do you mean it has been "hit"?

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

You are right, the prices have been going up steadily over past few months.

[Slakter Fjes]

Never mind, I can't seem to find a source, so I might just have dreamt it. Don't know why prices are rising then, but it's still not very expensive...

[PowerHaus930]

I have only been into building PC's for the past few years so I thought it was expensive when I paid $55 for my 8GB lol. I hope it goes down eventually so I can upgrade to 16GB.

[Wampum Biskit]

i rmember paying $1000 for 1Mb on a 286... ;)

[PowerHaus930]

Damn that's crazy. What year was that? When I said I paid $100 for 4MB that was around 95 I think.

[{AMI}SirMisAlot]

how about the old RLL drives before the IDE`s.I Paid 300 bucks for 100 meg drive the size of 2 cdrom drives and sounded like something cranking over and starting up.

Memory has always jumped up and down but usualy once it starts to rise in price it does not come back down.Mostly because a new chip is on the way DDR4.
all in all the computer market has a big affect on prices "supply and demand"

[{AMI}SirMisAlot]

Oprindeligt skrevet af SyPTo:

i rmember paying $1000 for 1Mb on a 286... ;)

purchased by chunks of 256 kbytes on the old 8088`s.was not cheap beck then for anything
a complete computer would cost almost $3000 for a basic home computer. min everything

[upcoast]

Oprindeligt skrevet af FixXxeR:

Never mind, I can't seem to find a source, so I might just have dreamt it. Don't know why prices are rising then, but it's still not very expensive...

It was a fire in the factory.

The most I paid in the past was $130 for a 1GB ddr stick.

Tbh I can't remember what I was paying for 256MB and 512MB sdram back in the duron days.

[Wampum Biskit]

Oprindeligt skrevet af SirMisAlot@:

Oprindeligt skrevet af SyPTo:

i rmember paying $1000 for 1Mb on a 286... ;)

purchased by chunks of 256 kbytes on the old 8088`s.was not cheap beck then for anything
a complete computer would cost almost $3000 for a basic home computer. min everything

true , back then it actually took some knowledge to even operate a pc...these youngsters don't realize how easy it all is nowadays.....