Will RAM prices go down?

[Cheeky Bugger]

I know ram dropped in price by quite a bit, but is there a chance that it might drop even lower?  ( I want 8 more gb of ram so i can get my dual channel to work and ryzen works pretty bad on single channel) 

[Sychic]

probably not. They're pretty stable with a decent 16gb of ram sitting nicely around $100 for 3000Mhz C15. You may be able to find some flash sales though

[Eastman51]

I've been seeing excellent pricing on G.Skill RAM recently. Up and down the frequency range too.

 

If you're buying 3000Mhz 16GB for over $100 you're ripping yourself off.

[Wufflez]

No they won't. Flash memory is in high demand

[Wufflez]

2 minutes ago, Eastman51 said:

I've been seeing excellent pricing on G.Skill RAM recently. Up and down the frequency range too.

 

If you're buying 3000Mhz 16GB for over $100 you're ripping yourself off.

Higher frequency makes a significant difference on Ryzen chips, so it's not a waste of money to go for higher mhz. You could probably get some decently fast RAM for ~$90 for 16gb.

[Dkunky]

Bruh RAM is at a Multi Year low in terms of pricing.

[Guest]

We can all just guess

[Eastman51]

Just now, Wufflez said:

Higher frequency makes a significant difference on Ryzen chips, so it's not a waste of money to go for higher mhz.

You are wasting money if you spend over $100.

 

G.Skill Aegis 2x8 3000Mhz is $87 USD
G.Skill Ripjaws V 2x8 3000Mhz is $90 USD

G.Skill TridentZ RGB 2x8 3000Mhz is $114 USD (RGB tax).

 

If you spend over $100 for some Corsair 2x8 3000Mhz, you're wasting money. G.Skill has been killing it with pricing lately.

[Cheeky Bugger]

22 minutes ago, Eastman51 said:

You are wasting money if you spend over $100.

 

G.Skill Aegis 2x8 3000Mhz is $87 USD
G.Skill Ripjaws V 2x8 3000Mhz is $90 USD

G.Skill TridentZ RGB 2x8 3000Mhz is $114 USD (RGB tax).

 

If you spend over $100 for some Corsair 2x8 3000Mhz, you're wasting money. G.Skill has been killing it with pricing lately.

I wanted to go for that G.Skill Aegis, but the problem is that i have to overlock it to 3000 mhz, default speed is 2133 and i'm not really experienced with overclocking ram, might f something up

[Eastman51]

Just now, Cheeky Bugger said:

I wanted to go for that G.Skill Aegis, but the problem is that i have to overlock it to 3000 mhz, default speed is 2133 and i'm not really experienced with overclocking ram, might f something up

If its listed as 3000Mhz, then it can do it.

 

DDR4 base spec speed is 2133Mhz. Even if you buy 3200Mhz RAM, when you first boot it runs at 2133; you have to enable XMP or manually set voltage and frequency to get the speed you pay for

[jsho98]

I would not expect them to drop much more, if you look at the historical pricing on pc part picker most kits are currently at their lowest price in 2 years so i don't expect to see any significant drop anytime soon.  Right now I am expecting prices to go up slightly if anything because with 3rd gen ryzen coming soon and if intel figures out their production issues these could increase the demand and raise prices 

[Cheeky Bugger]

15 minutes ago, Eastman51 said:

If its listed as 3000Mhz, then it can do it.

 

DDR4 base spec speed is 2133Mhz. Even if you buy 3200Mhz RAM, when you first boot it runs at 2133; you have to enable XMP or manually set voltage and frequency to get the speed you pay for

Ohh, i didn't know that, thanks man for explaining this to me

[Cheeky Bugger]

15 minutes ago, jsho98 said:

I would not expect them to drop much more, if you look at the historical pricing on pc part picker most kits are currently at their lowest price in 2 years so i don't expect to see any significant drop anytime soon.  Right now I am expecting prices to go up slightly if anything because with 3rd gen ryzen coming soon and if intel figures out their production issues these could increase the demand and raise prices 

Good thinking, i didn't consider these things, idk maybe i should even ditch my old stick because it only 2133 mhz and just go for a whole new 3200 mhz kit

[LienusLateTips]

30 minutes ago, Cheeky Bugger said:

I wanted to go for that G.Skill Aegis, but the problem is that i have to overlock it to 3000 mhz, default speed is 2133 and i'm not really experienced with overclocking ram, might f something up

All you do is flip a switch in the BIOS: If it's on your motherboard's QVL, it WILL go to 3000mhz

[Wufflez]

1 hour ago, Eastman51 said:

You are wasting money if you spend over $100.

 

G.Skill Aegis 2x8 3000Mhz is $87 USD
G.Skill Ripjaws V 2x8 3000Mhz is $90 USD

G.Skill TridentZ RGB 2x8 3000Mhz is $114 USD (RGB tax).

 

If you spend over $100 for some Corsair 2x8 3000Mhz, you're wasting money. G.Skill has been killing it with pricing lately.

But you didn't take into account for rgb RAM, and you can't put a price on rgb 

[jsho98]

1 hour ago, Cheeky Bugger said:

Good thinking, i didn't consider these things, idk maybe i should even ditch my old stick because it only 2133 mhz and just go for a whole new 3200 mhz kit

If you have the money (maybe see if you can sell your current stick), I would go with at least a 3000 mhz kit on ryzen.

I have a ryzen 5 2600x with a 2x8 3000mhz kit with a and it does make a difference over 2133, the bit of testing I did showed a 24 point score improvement in cinebench when I enabled xmp, which might not sound like a big improvement but to put it in perspective I was only able to get a 100 point improvement by overclocking the cpu from the 3.95 ghz at stock to 4.3 ghz. So just a ram speed upgrade should give you some decent improvements.

I did try to overclock my ram to 3333mhz (the system was nowhere close to stable) and I managed to get through a cinibench run but my score only went up by one point, I'm not sure if this was due to diminishing return or because it was so close to crashing, but to me it makes me hesitant to spend the extra money for faster ram because my workload does have anything that specifically needs faster ram and it doesn't seem like there was much overall improvement 

[Giganthrax]

Even if they do go down, it's probably not gonna be more than 5-15% over a period of time.

 

If you need RAM now, just bite the bullet and buy it.