Anyone else noticed...

[rosecityracr]

a HUGE price increase in memory lately?? At the begining of the year i bought a stick of 1gb for around 70 bucks for A-Data Viesta (which is a decent brand)w/ heat spreader and decent timings, now you cant find OFF-BRAND for any less than $100. This is also pc3200, not even ddr2...and it seems like most 333 and 266 are costing more than 400 too. HD's seem to be steadily rising also. What's the deal??? Processor costs go down and every other internal component goes up??? :eek:

[gaz_the_chav]

I havent really seen a difference accept from prices dropping?

-gaz

(mind you I do live in England)

[simon275]

I seen prices dropping here in Australia. Maybe your supplier put up prices. Have you confirmed this?

[GT40_GearHead]

well dont forget the holy days are coming in two months but ..... :))

[rosecityracr]

I seen prices dropping here in Australia. Maybe your supplier put up prices. Have you confirmed this?

Oh yeah I've checked all the major online parts stores and receipts from around april/may...$74.95 for A-Data Vitesta 1gb (5-17-06), now for the exact same thing is $109. A stick of 512 version is $60 :down: .

[deathstarchris]

Supply and demand.
Christmas sales are coming:banana:

[Silenced_Coyote]

First it was Back to School, then Christmas is coming up. Not to mention, the release of Intel's Core 2 Duo and the price war with AMD could increase RAM prices.

[Slug Toy]

i havent seen any raised prices yet. ive been tracking the core 2 duo e6600 in particular because that one is the most interesting. in the past month alone its gone from about $360 on newegg to $316

ram has stayed the same, but it hasnt gone higher... yet. it really wouldnt make any sense for it to get higher anyways... a battle between AMD and intel is a really crappy excuse. even holidays are a bad excuse... prices should go down for that stuff.

the only thing ive seen that i dont like is the price of agp video cards. seeming as they are pretty much obsolete now... they should be getting nice and cheap. this doesnt appear to be the case for some of them. some of them are actually still more expensive than even a 7950gx2. thats just stupid.

[xdxforever]

actually, Rose is right. its been about a $50 increase on all DDR2 products pretty much over the past couple months. check out anandtech's price index, it has histories of price changes for products sold by all significant online retaillers. the DDR and DDR2 price increase is obvious on them.

[Indybird]

I know exactly what your talking about. I was planning on buying some new ram about 2 months ago. Then 2GB pqi DDR2 800 RAM was $200 - $25 rebate. Then just before I bought my new Ram the same pqi RAM had gone up to $300-$25 rebate! :eek: I was lucky enough to find some good OCZ 2GB DDR2 800 RAM for $209 @ tigerdirect.

[OvRiDe]

This is not uncommon, if your referring to pc266 and pc333. The manufacturers have quit producing the RAM now. This means that the supply is now finite. They are all geared up for current RAM and future RAM. So as deathstarchris stated, the laws of supply and demand say that the supply is now limited but the demand is still there. On paper it makes more sense that it does in reality, but I have had to pay 3 times the amount of money for half the amount of old RAM then it would have cost for the new RAM, just because it was a legacy system that would have cost hundreds of thousands to migrate to a newer platform.

Hope this helps

[Silenced_Coyote]

i havent seen any raised prices yet. ive been tracking the core 2 duo e6600 in particular because that one is the most interesting. in the past month alone its gone from about $360 on newegg to $316

ram has stayed the same, but it hasnt gone higher... yet. it really wouldnt make any sense for it to get higher anyways... a battle between AMD and intel is a really crappy excuse. even holidays are a bad excuse... prices should go down for that stuff.

the only thing ive seen that i dont like is the price of agp video cards. seeming as they are pretty much obsolete now... they should be getting nice and cheap. this doesnt appear to be the case for some of them. some of them are actually still more expensive than even a 7950gx2. thats just stupid.

I am pretty sure I never said anything about increase in CPU prices. I was implying the opposite.

I'm just a beginner at Econ, but an increase in demand would increase prices. Of course, this is overly simplified. Either way, the price charts on AnandTech does show an increase in prices of RAM.