DDR4 Price Going Up Again?

Deleted member 50521 · Oct 25, 2016

I am helping a coworker setting up her new PC. She is going to get 128GB on X99 as well. However when she went shopping she found out that RAM price of 128GB kits went up to 850~900. What happened here? I thought DDR4 price is going down all the time. Kinda bummer now she has to settle with 64GB instead.

Jetster · Oct 25, 2016

http://www.pcgamer.com/heres-why-ddr4-ram-prices-have-spiked/

Bill_Bright · Oct 25, 2016

She has to "settle" with 64GB?

P4-630 · Oct 25, 2016

Haven't noticed at my e-tailer yet (Europe), prices are quite the same (bit cheaper) compared to March this year when I bought my set of DDR4...

64K · Oct 25, 2016

newtekie1 · Oct 25, 2016

Memory always cycles in price. The supply goes up, prices go down, the supply goes down the prices go up...

CAPSLOCKSTUCK · Oct 25, 2016

xkm1948 said:
I am helping a coworker setting up her new PC. She is going to get 128GB on X99 as well. However when she went shopping she found out that RAM price of 128GB kits went up to 850~900. What happened here? I thought DDR4 price is going down all the time. Kinda bummer now she has to settle with 64GB instead.

What are the specs for the rest of the build and what will she use it for?.....just out of interest.

P4-630 · Oct 25, 2016

xkm1948 said:
She is going to get 128GB on X99 as well.

You talked her into that massive amount?
That you need it doesn't mean she will ever need such amount!!

As CAPS said, for what will she be using it?

Deleted member 50521 · Oct 25, 2016

She is building metagenomics assembly workstation. Same as me she is a bioinformatics researcher.

Rest of her build:

6900K
ASUS E-WS
64GB GSKILL DDR4 3200
RX470(She only plays Farmvile 2 game wise)
Samsung 960PRO M2 1TB
2X HGST 5TB in RAID1

Haven't decided on whether to go water cooling or not. This machine needs to be on 24x7 so I am leaning towards regular air cooling.

Ferrum Master · Oct 25, 2016

I saw somehere that there will be memory chip shortages in next Q.

Well they did it again.

P4-630 · Oct 25, 2016

Ferrum Master said:
I saw somehere that there will be memory chip shortages in next Q.

xkm1948 and his coworker bought them all....

dont whant to set it"' · Oct 25, 2016

2waterpunms in paralel,theoreticly speaking.

Ferrum Master · Oct 25, 2016

P4-630 said:
xkm1948 and his coworker bought them all....

found it.

http://m.hexus.net/business/news/components/98452-pc-component-shortages-predicted-q4-2016/

Deleted member 50521 · Oct 25, 2016

General RAM requirement for genomic project is 1GB of RAM is required for processing 1 million base pairs. With most newer genome processing software optimization it is now possible to handle human sized genome on personal computers. 128GB is barely enough for assemble human genome. Usually it must be performed on super computing nodes with 512GB~1TB of RAM.

I do wish there will be 256GB DDR4 kits available soon for unregistered DRAM.

xorbe · Oct 25, 2016

Thanks xkm1948, that was interesting info.

Deleted member 50521 · Oct 26, 2016

Price going up every 2~3 days now. The 128GB kit is approaching $900. Damn this is getting expensive.

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