Tuesday, February 27th 2007
RAM prices will likely increase during second half of 2007
As you may have noticed, RAM prices have dropped sharply over the past few months. Turns out that it's a good idea to "buy low, sell high", to quote a familiar stock market tip. The prices are only temporary, and as Vista really gets popular among consumers, and as prices get too low to compensate for manufacturing costs, manufacturers will simply raise prices again. Expect to see prices go back to "normal" during the second half of 2007. In the meantime, feel free to buy plenty of RAM while prices are still low and reasonable.
Source:
Nordic Hardware
13 Comments on RAM prices will likely increase during second half of 2007
bet TD, newegg, and various others sell out of there cheap stuff after today :D
Stupid falling and rasing prices.
2GB of PC2-6400 should cost less than 200$, but if u want to get them to 8500, u should buy the CL 4 version for ~250$. The CL 3 version is also available but is also highly overpriced.
However, the prices will rise if the technology increases. example, 2gb/4gb sticks start getting very popular.
The main reason behind the recent price drop was some of the major RAM manufacturers were charged with price fixing and given considerable fines.
From what I understand, these OSes can in fact address at most 4GB of memory, but that includes any add-in cards.
So what I take from this is if you have 4GBs of RAM and a 256mb GPU, then it will only see 3.75GB of RAM.
However, when you also add in CD and DVD drives that lowers in even more to 3.5GB of RAM.
Is this correct?