Yah they were for sure caught off guard with the Hyper IC's. I think they really thought they were still gonna own i7 with s775 era IC's.

this will be ddr3 year.....i will sell my ddr2 and will be only running ddr3

samsung will raise ddr3 prices..http://news.softpedia.com/news/Samsu...s-142119.shtml samsung eat your korean kimchi...

for my last input to this thread....

MiCRON has a new product.....

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/s...4701053&pgno=1

hopefully it comes out soon...so we'll have a taste of it.....

I wanna see your favorites folder on your browser. :ohcrap: How many sites to you keep track of during a week. :shock:


So one article says prices are being artificially being fixed and companies are having process issues much like TSMC. The other article says that the stupid server market is buying all of our memory and causing shortages. Damnit OCGMJ, quit upgrading the servers to DDR3 already. :laughing:

I've wasted a small fortune over the last 6 months chasing quality RAM.

Mushkin, Cellshock, G-skill, Supertalent, Kingston flavors of crap, ho-hum, and just OK.

Finally broke down and paid $400 for some Dom GT's. Now I'm happy. But my wallet still won't talk to me.

This is what I was saying the other day. No new RAM coming out or at least for the triple channel peeps out there and prices have sky rocketed too it seems every since that Elpida problem.

Those budget Crucial's were the shat weren't they. $25 too!

Yes they were. :good:

Sorry guys... no sympathy here :eek:

When I first started building rigs ram was going for somewhere in the neighborhood of $90 for 1MB SIMMs. that was for 120 nanosecond, if you wanted the good stuff - the 80 nanosecond, the cost went up to about $130 per 1MB SIMM.

Extrapolate that out now to DDR3 or 5 and what we're paying for memory is dirt cheap :D

20MB HDD - $400.

I could go on and on.... but I won't ;)

Edit: Sorry for the poor sense of humor. Sometimes I forget that Marine humor doesn't always work in the real world. Honestly I can't afford the top of the line Corsair's. Plus I think the premium is rediculous for the name. Good memory, crappy price.


That is crazy expensive, but neither here nor there. I thank and feel sorry for you pioneers of the PC market. Shit was truly outrageous back then. :eek:

Sorry guys, I fixed my post above. Guess that humor was a little too much. :blush:

I think ram companies are just starting to realize we are paying for 1.2k chips, 550 for graphics, 300 for psus and now mobos are hitting 700? They want more money now too!

I paid $600 for 3x2 cmgtx2, they are now $750 and out of stock. :shock: They were worth every penny. In aq3, sp32m, pf and 05 they are totally worth it :D

It was nice buying ddr2-667 cas 5 ballistix with d9 and clocking to 1200+ though, you are totally right