Memory DDR3 prices are going up!

After the last ~5 months of price drops the tide has just began to turn this week and prices are now going up. I advise buying sooner (asap) rather than later if you are wanting a memory upgrade.

 

For once in my life I bought something at the right time!

 

If that's the case, I may also for once have bought something at the right time. Paid just under £40 for 4 gig of Corsair XMS3 1600MHz last week...and its the newer batch with the redesigned sticker on the heatsink.

 

Glad I timed my upgrade to 8gb well.

Is the ram price change likely to have any impact on the cost of graphics cards as well?

 

Cheers, just bought 2x2GB of Corsair XMS3 1600Mhz from Scan for £36.14.

 

That's why I ordered my new system three weeks ago including 8GB DDR3 and a new SSD.

Everything NAND/NOR-based will see prices rising since China decided to stop exporting rare-earth-ressources.

 

will it ever come down again?

eyeing some 8GB kits..... if i buy them now, then sell my Dominators when RAM price is high....... good plan?

 

Well that sucks

 

Rising inflation and falling GDP I could accept.

But rising RAM prices?!?

(But seriously, that sucks. Thankfully I bought my 4GB in my build in the summer and only tend to you 2-2.5GB of RAM so I'm okay at the moment).

 

Just putting my SB build together now. I managed to get 8GB (2x4GB) of 1600mhz CL9 for $90 CAD (57GBP)

 

But Bindi, I was waiting for the Crucial C400 and it's cheaper 25nm NAND before I did my SB build. What should I do? If I do the build now with a C300, I would have to decide whether getting an ASUS P8P67 would be worth the risk. Lots of people have had problems with them and I was hoping ASUS would of sorted it all out by then. Plus another pay packet would of been nice.

If I buy now, I may shed a tear when the C400 is released and is better then my old archaic C300 but I would also be a bit annoyed if it was twice the price of the C300 and I'd wasted my time.

 

is there really any need for 8gb when all I do is game? I would have thought 4gb is easily enough

(sorry to hijack the thread but I think many people might have the same question)

 

well im thinking of upgrading to 12gb from 6gb seeing as the 6gb are going for £55

 

Surely you just buy the RAM and sit on it until the C400 arrives??

Had to happen eventually I suppose.

 

4GB is sure enough in most cases, as all 32-bit software (basically all games are still 32-bit) can't adress more then 3.2 GB anyways.

If you do alot of multitasking with RAM-hungry software tho, or if you use alot of 64-bit software like Adobe Photoshop, Cinema 4D, etc, then you wan't as much RAM as possible.

 

To fellow Newegg users, all desktop memory is 15% off for the next three days with the coupon code DM15A0111US (for the USA) and DM15A0111CA (for Canadians).

Now is the time to buy RAM!

 

Is it worth upgrading my 1333 CL7 to 1600?

 

I doubt you would notice any real difference in anything other than memory benches. There have been a few articles around the net about the real world difference between 1333 & 1600 but I can't find them at the moment.

 

I shelled out on 12gb last week. Like a few of you have said. got the timing right.

 

Thanks Bindi.

16GB of 1600MHz Corsair XMS3 9-9-9-27 ordered. hopefully i can run it at standard 9-9-9-24.

£165 from Scan. £10 per gig, excellent value.