When will this RAM price drops from $190 to $50?

I am looking for 4GB DDR2 800 CL4 RAM for my notebook. The only one available with that specification is from Kingston. According to their press release, the RAM was released on September 2008 at original MSRP of $257. It has been almost 9 months and the price has only dropped to $190. Part number is KHX6400S2ULK2/4g

I wouldn't want to pay more than $50. When will the price drop to $50?

Some may suggest that CL4 is not that much faster then CL5 but I still want to buy the fastest RAM without paying a king ransom.

Edit: the RAM in question is not a single 4GB stick (1x4GB) but rather 2 sticks 2GB each (2x2GB), giving a total of 4GB.

 

I wouldn't count on 4GB sticks dropping in price that drastically any time soon, especially not for Kingston HyperX low-latency.

 

Well In my case I got a 4gb sodimm stick for $56USD . But to be honest I dont see a price drop soon. Also why do you want more than 4gb??? I have more than 4gb because I run heavy virtual machines, CAD editing, gaming, insane multitasking, coding, insane engineering calculations and open huge files....

 

lucky git, i wish i was at work when that super sale was happening so i could have tried to pick up 2 sticks of it.

(by the by low latency is a complete waste on a notebook)

On topic its going to take a good while to get down to 50 dollars (if ever because thats a stupidly huge price drop) if so it will be about the time that 12gb is "normal" in a laptop so 2-3 years would be my guess

 

Could you explain me about latency? Is that really important?

 

Latency, in terms of RAM, is the number of cycles it takes the RAM to complete a given operation. So, lower numbers are better.

Of course, to the naked eye the difference between 4-4-4-12 and 5-5-5-15, or even 6-6-6-18, is completely negligible. Odds are you would only ever be able to tell the difference in synthetic benchmark tests anyway.

So, no, it's not really important. The most important aspect of RAM is sheer amount, i.e. 4GB will be noticeably better than 2GB. The next somewhat important aspect is frequency, aka speed. 800MHz or 1066MHz RAM will be faster than 667MHz or 533MHz RAM, although this also will probably not be noticeable to the naked eye. The latency, or timing, is the least obvious, and least likely to make any sort of tangible difference.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_latency

Its basically the speed in which RAM accesses and sends out data. CL4 RAM is 1 faster than CL5 RAM (the vast majority of 667mHz and 800mHz RAM have 5-5-5-15 latency)

As to its importance... there is none. In desktops you can overclock lower latency RAM a bit easier (some say) but it basically is a useless stat that the memory makers put on it to sell some modules for a premium they dont deserve.

I got caught up it in while i was upgrading my 6860 and bought RAM that would give me 4-4-4-12 timings and all i have to show for it is a wallet with 109 less dollars in it. It gives no real world benefit and even benchmarks wont show anything substantial (memory benchmarks that is)

 

I went from 2GB 667MHz 5-5-5-15 memory to 4GB of 667MHz 4-4-4-12. There is a noticeable difference, although that's most certainly a result of the increased amount rather than the reduced latency. I only paid $40 for mine, though, so it's not really much of a loss to me. I like to make myself feel like I have cutting-edge stuff.

 

Timing is just as important as the clock speed.

DDR2 667 with very low timing can be faster than DDR2 800 with slack timing.

 

I don't want more than 4GB. The RAM in question is actually 2x2GB. 2GB per stick. 4GB total.

 

There's no reason to ever pay more than $50 for 2x2GB memory. Just get a 5-5-5-15 set.

 

You can get 2x2GB DDR2 800 ram for $15 when it's on sale.