RAM is getting cheaper

[aysiu]

People always say that RAM is cheap, but I think it's truer now more than ever before.

I was just looking at my order history at NewEgg.

In 2006, my wife bought a 1 GB RAM stick for her Powerbook, and it was $150.

In 2007, I got a 1 GB RAM stick for my old Dell Inspiron before giving it to a friend, and the stick was $70.

In 2008, I just got a 1 GB RAM stick for my Eee PC, and it was $18.

That's quite a drop in two years!

[schauerlich]

My parents got me a 1GB stick for my desktop for $70 at Christmas, and I'm looking to get 2X1GB sticks for my MacBook at $29 apiece. Twice the ram in a smaller form factor for less than it was 4 months ago.

[insane_alien]

my 8GB isn't worth a quarter what i cost me when i fitted it.

it was still worth the investment, and the next one will be bigger and better.

[SunnyRabbiera]

yeh I got my ram for $70 too, far less then I expected.

[markp1989]

in the summer i got 2gb (2 X 1gb) for my desktop for about £30, dont know how much it would be to get the same now

[xc3RnbFO8P]

I bought 2 1 gb in January 2008, $32.

[Dixon Bainbridge]

2x2Gb sticks for £36.

[LaRoza]

It is very cheap now.

The only good thing to come out of Vista, besides the flock of Linux users.

[Kingsley]

I'm tempted to throw in another gig of RAM on my home desktop. Right now, it only has 1 GB and runs Vista, but there's a noticeable lag and lots of noise. Though I'd only be benefiting my sister, since I prefer to use the Linux partition.

[jgrabham]

A couple of weeks ago I found a reciept for 16MB of RAM costing £60 (about $120) XD

Always one isn't there?

[andrewabc]

8 years ago I bought 32mb ram for $100. $3125 per gb
2 weeks ago I bought 4gb of ram for $100. $25 per gb.
No way it is getting cheaper.

[King_Critter]

When I built my computer two years ago, I paid $200 for two gigabytes. Last I checked, the exact same product was going for $50. If only I had a time machine...

[intense.ego]

2x2Gb sticks for £36.

Where? I tried CCL, like you told me, but I couldn't find anything for that price. Do you have a link?

[reacocard]

It's very true. I could max out my laptop's RAM to 4GB for a mere $80! But, given that I already have 2 GB and the current price trend I think I'll wait, maybe in a year it'll only be $50. :biggrin: (Yes, I actually could use the extra RAM.)

[Iandefor]

I bought 1 GB of RAM three years ago for $74.50. I just did a build a couple of weeks ago and the 2 GB cost $37.98. I love it. It makes it way easy to continually upgrade your RAM.

[kamaboko]

People always say that RAM is cheap, but I think it's truer now more than ever before.

I was just looking at my order history at NewEgg.

In 2006, my wife bought a 1 GB RAM stick for her Powerbook, and it was $150.

In 2007, I got a 1 GB RAM stick for my old Dell Inspiron before giving it to a friend, and the stick was $70.

In 2008, I just got a 1 GB RAM stick for my Eee PC, and it was $18.

That's quite a drop in two years!

Which is exactly why I moan when I see people post here about how much of a memory hog Vista is. Christ, for less than $75 I got 4GB of memory for my laptop. Who cares if it takes 1.5GB to idle?

[Pethegreat]

Which is exactly why I moan when I see people post here about how much of a memory hog Vista is. Christ, for less than $75 I got 4GB of memory for my laptop. Who cares if it takes 1.5GB to idle?
In linux I never have gone over 1.5gb even with a XP VM running(1gb of ram allocated).

I bought 2gb of PC6400 ram for $65 back in december. Now that ram is around $40.

It is amazing how quickely new computer parts become cheap. I bought a BFG 6800gt back in 2006 for $300. Now I would be lucky to get $40 for it. I bought an 8500gt for $42 which should be a better card than the 6800.

Now only if operating systems went down in price as quickly. I could have got XP for $20.

[beefcurry]

the new 1GB is the old 128mb..

soon 2/4GB's will be cheap when we all need 8+GB ram.

[teet]

I think the price of RAM has gone up... I use DDR 400 in my desktop. I upgraded to a total of 1 GB of ram a few months ago. Not because the 512 mb I had in it weren't cutting it, but because I wanted to upgrade for the future before the price went up more.

With that said, I recently upgraded my parents to a total of 1 GB because it was so freaking cheap (their machine uses DDR2 533).

-teet

[Iandefor]

Which is exactly why I moan when I see people post here about how much of a memory hog Vista is. Christ, for less than $75 I got 4GB of memory for my laptop. Who cares if it takes 1.5GB to idle?I care and I don't even run Vista. It takes a special kind of incompetence to waste over 1 and a half billion bytes doing nothing, and I can assure you, my friends who spend that 1 and a half billion bytes doing nothing with Vista (and can't switch out OS's because their hardware has Vista-only drivers) really aren't that pleased, either.

Microsoft says you need 1 GB to run anything other than Home Basic. If you're okay plunking down some money for four, that's fine, but a lot of people have a problem with the fact that Microsoft may have had its fingers crossed when it said that and that they're having to pay more because of it.

[D-EJ915]

well DDR2 ram is cheap as hell, DDR is still the same price it was before. I paid $90 for my 2x512MB ECC sticks last year, now they're $25 lol

[uknowho008]

i just bought 8Gb for $100

[NightwishFan]

I have never seen Vista use less than 300mb of ram, and mine has all the fat cut out of it. Just can't win even with 4hrs of tweaks. :(

[afeasfaerw23231233]

yes new ram is cheaper. but old (sdram, ddr ram ) ram is more and more expensive. 512MB SDRAM pc133 cost more than 55 USD. you can buy a new harddrive for an old computer (PATA, SATA can be install on old box also if you buy a pci sata controller <10USD card for it ) but for ram you cannot do this. sometimes upgrading both cpu+ram+mobo is even cheaper than buy extra sdram for old box.

[Dixon Bainbridge]

Where? I tried CCL, like you told me, but I couldn't find anything for that price. Do you have a link?

Its their own brand value RAM - if you cant find it on the website, give them a call, they are very helpful.

[jespdj]

DDR2 RAM is suddenly incredibly cheap. I saw an advert a few days ago: 4 GB (2 x 2 GB) 800 MHz RAM for about € 70.

My new laptop (Dell XPS M1530) which I'm getting next week has 4 GB, I got the extra RAM because it was so cheap. I'll be running 64-bit Hardy on it so that I can use the whole 4 GB.

[greenbalot]

pc133 ram is expensive considering how old the technology is... a used kingston 512mb stick cost 24.99 @ ebay... not cool... :(

Does anyone know where I could get another 512mb stick for less?? (no generic ram please...)

[powell]

I just got 2 2gb for $50 each

[cmat]

DDR RAM is still very expensive even though it's only used on older PCs. A stick of DRR 512 MB RAM cost me about $100 a few months ago. At the same time for my new PC, 2 GB of high speed DDR2 RAM was only $45.