What the hell is happening to RAM prices, they just keep growing

What the hell is happening to RAM prices, they just keep growing.

What does corsair want revenge against?

That aint the only thing that keeps growing

even used memory? i haven't bought any in a long while

Zimbabwe

All the RAM in the world is produced in 2 factories in South Korea. If something goes wrong we all pay.

Literally Sup Forumseddit

Majula!

Several factors:
Smartphones are driving up demand exponentially
RAM manufacturers are in cahoots and fixing prices to take advantage of the aforementioned demand
A number of storms and accidents have affected production within the past few years

Because r/pcmasterrace whales will pay for it

This I'm not poor so I don't mind dropping $500 on ram. Stop being poor.

tfw I paid $30 for 2x4gb in 2013

It's probably those evil bitcoin miners

I still wait for the crash
Any moment now

>paid $65 for 16gb 2400MHz in the summer of 2016

I made off like a bandit

But you could spend that money on sex.

DDR3 RAM prices seem fine.

DDR4 is fucking rape though.

>All the RAM in the world is produced in 2 factories in South Korea.
>Consoles are dependent on that
>PC's are dependent on that
>Smartphones are dependent on that
>All it takes is for best Korea to press a button and we are fucked

phones keep using more ram.

blame phoneposters and phonegamers

>paying for sex
>when you could have a sweet fuckin rig instead
I don't think your priorities are straight buddy

I can do both. stop being poor

>tfw paid the same for 16gb 3000mhz in August last year

>buy 8GB RAM 3 years ago
>Sup Forums says I’ll never need more than for about a decade
>and even if I did it would be dirt cheap
>now 16GB is looking more feasible
>fucking 100+ dollars

Stop making me feel bad and loan me 20$.

>two factories in south korea
yeah, except it's not true

I do I just finished building my gf a new pc. It looks like ridiculous with all the rgb shit she wanted in there, but it's what she likes.

I paid 95€ for 16gb 3200MHz DDR4 in August of 2016 myself. Feels good.

At least gpu prices seem to be dropping. Still like 30% more than what they should be. But fuck ram prices are all up 100% from what they were a year ago. That shit is more than shortages, straight up price fixing.

>bought one 8GB stick specifically chose a 4 slot mobo in 2014
>still have yet to see a single game use more than 6GB

wahoo

Possibly.
But I read an article about how right now investors are buying stock in memory producing companies.
It could be due to market forces.

I dunno.

Paid $24 for an 8GB 1600mHz DDR3 Corsair Vengeance LP stick.

Went back to upgrade a friend's PC on the cheap and they're $59 at minimum from the exact same seller.

Cannot make heads or tails of it.

Try haggling with the vendor.

I do video editing and photoshop.
32GB is the target for my next system.

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>tfw didn't fall for the dd4 meme

So here is the deal, every shop seems to do the same thing. Jack up the prices leading into the holiday sales, black Friday, Cyber Monday, etc. that way the "sale' price they list is often full price just with a new 60% off tag. google it, news outlets have been reporting on this for years.

I payed 80€ for 16gb last year October
the same kit is sitting at 180€ now

It's a terrible time to get a pc. fucking bitcoin and ether miners are driving up the cost of prices. if you don't have a good PC by now, you're fucked until 2019 at the earliest. why did you wait, you idiot? we've been telling you for YEARS

or lootboxes

>look up ddr4
>its cheaper than ever before

what is the OP talking about?

I meant to say cost of parts

Idk but I don't see myself upgrading for 16GB anytime soon

>bought 16gb ddr4 ram
>no difference between 16gb ddr3 ram

this fucking meme

W-wtf happened guys did korea get bombed?

is there any point for a scandinavian to try mining?

That's because you didn't look at the speeds retardo

8 GB should be enough for everyone for the time being

speculation and we are running out of minerals needed for the ever growing demand

No. unless you only play indie shit and run 1 monitor setup with nothing in the background,

norm is 16 now a days and then you can multitask easier as well

I'm loyal to my 2D waifu faggot.

fuck ireland

Don't you mean Sup Forumsoat?

>Not waiting until ddr5

i bought 16gb for like 80-90 dollars few years back and i checked the same set that i bought and its now at 170 dollars i'm scared user

Not waiting till I-11 gtx 2090 and ddr8

Heh its like you want to waste money

Retard ddr5 is just around the corner.

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Yeah, the ram I swore I paid less than 200 for a couple years ago is now almost 400 dollars. Thats nuts. Same exact ram. Did not expect the value to go UP on computer parts. Weird.

>Not waiting till quantum computing reality simulations

there's literally no need to have other software open when you're playing a game unless you cluttered your PC with malware like those useless shitty software bundled with the hardware, several tabs of discord for autistic kids to socialize and spam anime or uplay/origin

by the way, Steam is literally the most lightweight application running right now on my PC, at mere 25 megabyes

don't worry and enjoy your day as much as you can, everything is going to get much worse soon

>spend money on super computer
>have sex in vr with hot anime girl
win win

Yeah and it will be overpriced as fuck. just like ddr4 was at release

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When exactly? In time for Zen+ next year? I really could use an upgrade already.

Dude, just download ur ram like normal people do

I went full DDR5 back in 2013.

But i like to watch videos while i do mindless tasks in video games like grinding the same shit boss for the 50th time

>built an okay pc a few years ago
>it's getting pretty dated now, can't run unoptimized modern games like PUBG at a playable framerate
>component prices keep rising thanks to buttcoin and whatever other nonsense nerds gush over
Guess I'm never building another one.

Guys we need to get better CPU and RAM because websites are gonna run crypto miners in the background now. because of people using adblock and them not making max profit on their website

You will have a seizure before you hit 50. We may have two spheres of the brain but they aren't designed for multitasking.

Seriously I went to buy another 8x2 kit to upgrade from 16gb to 32gb and realized the price had nearly doubled since I last bought them. I even pulled up my old receipt to make sure I wasn't being retarded and misremembering the price.

>Bought my R9 Fury for $250 literally months before the Etherium boom
>Bought 16 GB of RAM for $80 total months before prices skyrocketed
God damn it feels good to make the right choice.

Eh? I'm not sure that's true and if It is that kinda spooks me. Will listening to a podcast while grinding in an mmo cause seizures?

Last November I bought 16gb(8x2) Vengence LPX 3000 for 70 bucks from newegg.

Now it's like 200 bucks, sucks for those building a PC nowadays

>PC died. Thinking of upgrading to AM4 'cause fuck kaby lake.
>Check ram prices for DDR4
>Prices exploded to twice from last year
Extreme Sadness

Same here, I guess I'll hold off on the RAM upgrade for now.

> wahoo

LMAO just download some more nerd.

>hardware companies right now.

No, but this isn't something that warrants a purchase of 16 GB of ram. Unless you like playing around with VMs you will find no use of all that ram.

But I like recording them. It's a nice bonus to play a game and get paid to do so. It basically pays for itself, or if it's f2p, free money.

can confirm. bought a new pc a couple weeks ago. I literally had the price of ram go up in the day it was sitting in my cart until i paid for it. was like 170 for 16gb, then it went to 176 the next day. this is from jewegg. i took it out and bought from amazon instead who's price was 170 still

It's because they keep changing the form factor every 5 years, this in turn keeps the prices high.

DDR4 is fucking stupid expensive for this reason.

When it came out it was super cheap

So if prices don't seem to be decreasing, would now be a good time to upgrade, or just wait til this plays out?

>being so autistic *I mean that in the actual definition of the word and not the as the usual insult* that you need multiple video games running at all times to hold your attention
How do you function outside of your officemax swivel computer chair?

DDR3 went up too.

Exactly same situation, fuck I wish I had bought another pair a year ago

you can figure out this shit is a lie with 30 seconds on newegg my dude

Simmilar increase happened at the start of this year and it didn't come down but became worse now. Draw your own conclusiuons because I can't tell one way or the other at this point.

>R9 Fury

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>tfw 16gb of ram will cost more than graphics cards by the end of the year

For $250 and a GPU that outperforms the GTX 1060, RX 480, RX 580, and GTX 980, all while nipping on the heels of the 1070 in some games, it was a steal.

>mfw my computer is from 2008 and I've been putting off building a new one because it's so expensive
>it's only getting more expensive by the year

Did the same, but it was in Canadian Dollaridoos.

>pc being the cheaper, superior alternative to consoles will no longer be true by next year if this keeps going
>and its all because of stupid third worlder crypto currency miners

Who 4GB and doing fine here?

does it make a significant difference if i buy two 8gb single rank of ddr4 instead of dual rank?

Yah, just third worlders are doing it.

Yes, because the dual rank is tested together and guaranteed to work from the manufacturer in that configuration. Two single ranked can work but it's without any guarantees.

Usually though, RAM is cheaper brought together than separately.

> does it make a significant difference
Yes it does. 10-15 fps in games. 30-50 fps in bf1. I wish i was joking.