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    Don't overpay for RAM.

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by travfar, Jan 17, 2011.

  1. travfar

    travfar Notebook Evangelist

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    RAM prices are crashing. Today it hit an all time low. Amazon sold a 4GB stick of DDR3 SODIMM for $15 after a $25 rebate. Even without the rebate at $40, it's was decent. At $15...... That's 8GB in your Z for $30. Sadly, it's sold out now.
     
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    yeah i paid too much 2 or 3 month ago :(
     
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    Damn! I paid $98 + S&H, for (((4GB))) Module, that was 2 months back
     
    Willy330Ci, Jan 18, 2011
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    Yea, I've noticed DDR-2 prices are crashing again, too. They were super low at one point, then they sky rocketed, and now they are back low again.

    I guess demand went down. There was an article not too long ago about how demand was skyrocketing and several of the major memory manufacturers said they wouldn't increase production as they were "too busy working on new technologies". It was rumored they were just trying to artificially inflate the price.
     
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    Just purchased a 4GB DDR3 for 40 euros. But no indications for becoming much cheaper soon... obviously the amazon thing was also just a 1 time deal.

    Out of curiosity - what brand and speed was the RAM in Amazon?
     
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    travfar Notebook Evangelist

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    Patriot. Known to many Fry's, think uber Saturn/Media Markt, customers here in the US.

    RAM prices have been sliding fairly regularly the last few weeks. $36-$40 is the "regular" price now for a 4GB stick. I wouldn't be so sure that the Amazon thing is a one time thing. I buy lots of stuff from Amazon and these deals tend to be recurrent. Amazon has real time pricing so that when sales go up, so does the price. Give it a few weeks and it generally comes back down. This deal wasn't all that unusually. Fry's was selling a 8GB kit (2x4GB) for $40ish about a month ago.
     
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    There was an article just a few days ago (on ars.technica?) about how RAM prices are crashing because of overproduction.

    Sadly, the price drop so far only seems to affect "ordinary" RAM, and not specialty RAM (low latency, extended SPD settings for underclocking, uncommon combinations like registered but unbuffered, SDRAM, RDRAM), but the average user can make a good buy these days.
     
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    I can't argue with you as I'm not there, but nothing like that here in Europe - prices are going down, yes... but not that drastically. 4GB SO-DIMM DDR3 costs between 35 and 50 euros here at the moment.
     
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