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It'll take some years to ramp up production to meet the demand so the prices will stay high for some time. 

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Rams' prices have spiked for the past 2-3 months now. Will it stop? i have the money to buy them, i just want to know if it will stop in a month or sth...

 

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It'll take some years to ramp up production to meet the demand so the prices will stay high for some time. 

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Eh, because some genius decided that reducing production can increase prices and profit margins. Probably need some really heavy fine for completely eat up their profits so they will reconsider ramping up production.

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DRAMeXchange predicts that it will start to go down quite soon. To be clear, it will START. It will take months or even years until RAM prices are reasonable again.

Samsung for example will ramp up production very soon so that should be the biggest trigger to start the drop in ram prices.

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15 minutes ago, xentropa said:

While were on the topic, what caused it to go so high?

Mostly high demand I think 

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10 minutes ago, xentropa said:

While were on the topic, what caused it to go so high?

part of it might have to do with all the new CPUs that came out in 2017 - that might have motivated a lot of people to upgrade from whatever they had previously and since every new platform needs DDR4 this might have created a spike in demand. 

 

also, production for DDR3 stopped mid year, so the people who are still holding on to their haswell and older systems (like me) got fucked over too

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27 minutes ago, xentropa said:

While were on the topic, what caused it to go so high?

Mobile phones started using lots of ram taking a big chunk of ram production leaving very little for Desktop ram production and that caused a shortage which caused computer ram prices to go up

Microsoft in there infinite wisdom have decided to impose a VRAM cap for games the that use DX9 o.O. May God Bless them those whoever came up with that idea. :dry:

 

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2 weeks (industry standard response when they don't know).

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Will DDR4 RAM prices go up after the ZEN2 release?

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Just now, pizapower said:

Will DDR4 RAM prices go up after the ZEN2 release?

DDR4 prices are already comparable to the lows of DDR3.

no more room to drop...

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Just now, dgsddfgdfhgs said:

DDR4 prices are already comparable to the lows of DDR3.

no more room to drop...

That's not what I asked.

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13 hours ago, pizapower said:

That's not what I asked.

How despicable. Using my one and a half year old post for your shenanigans 

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4 hours ago, GirvanaWantsBinnieBalls said:

How despicable. Using my one and a half year old post for your shenanigans 

Still better than making a new thread to ask such a trivial question. I wanna keep this forum clean.

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