#4672173

partyface86

2013-10-09 10:52

Im am glad that i bought 8gb of DDR3 ram for my rig last year when the prices were half of what are now.

#4672226

k1net1cs

2013-10-09 13:15

Already felt the bite almost a month ago when I had to replace a 4GB stick on my laptop.

#4672234

FerCam™

2013-10-09 13:33

Which makes me think the fire was not an accident. Let's see what's next maybe a flood in TSMC so nvidia can sell titan for 2500$, and people will buy it anyway.

#4672265

War child

2013-10-09 14:35

My thoughts are usually prices go up based on supply and demand. Ok, there was a fire which will hike up prices. But these days, even once supply is back on track. You rarely see these prices drop/stabalise.

#4672272

peshkohacka

2013-10-09 15:07

....

#4672279

(.)(.)

2013-10-09 15:18

Well, with all the sales the console are doing, Gddr 5 should be cheap as... chips soon.

#4672281

kanej2007

2013-10-09 15:19

Im am glad that i bought 8gb of DDR3 ram for my rig last year when the prices were half of what are now.

Same, lol. Last year, I bought 4x4Gb ram. 😀

#4672285

-Tj-

2013-10-09 15:27

Which makes me think the fire was not an accident. Let's see what's next maybe a flood in TSMC so nvidia can sell titan for 2500$, and people will buy it anyway.

It wasn't, nothing got damaged (it didnt affect ram production), its just some bs how to make even more money.. Greedy bastards.

#4672287

Matt26LFC

2013-10-09 15:29

Can't believe the Samsung Greens I bought some months back on Special for £35 (8GB) are now going for £120 new lol

#4672291

---TK---

2013-10-09 15:32

got plenty of memory, 16 gb in my sig, and 2 4gb ddr3 1600 as backup. they aint getting any more of my money for a while yet.

#4672396

icedman

2013-10-09 18:06

I wont need any ram now till ddr4 comes out I just hope prices drop by then though I doubt it as new things always cost too much

#4672923

NAMEk

2013-10-10 15:23

I hope this will kill most of their sales of DDR 3 mem.

#4672927

IcE

2013-10-10 15:41

Reminds me of the early days of DDR3 where I paid $115 for 4GB of 1600. Now it's about to come full circle. Thankfully I don't need more than 8GB. I'm the type of guy who runs one thing at a time and maybe has two tabs open in a web browser. Old habits I suppose.

#4672977

PhazeDelta1

2013-10-10 16:39

I find it funny that the plant fire is affecting companies that don't even use Hynix IC's.

#4673045

---TK---

2013-10-10 18:06

I thought that fire didn't do any damage?

#4673046

Keitosha

2013-10-10 18:07

This is not normal anymore. I'm glad I got my amount of memory (4x8GB) for a mere €120 last year. I don't want to know its current pricing. I just checked anyway, same set costs €260 now. 😛uke2: The fire didn't affect production (was extinguished in a very short time), but it is still used as an excuse to hike up prices. We saw the same crap with HDD's. Next: Mice ate all the donuts in the canteen @ Intel, CPU prices doubled! :3eyes:

#4673060

icedman

2013-10-10 18:24

its like gasoline they get a small leak or storm and they hike the prices up without ever coming down fully

#4673185

Mojojoe

2013-10-10 21:32

I thought that fire didn't do any damage?

It didn't damage any of the fabrication equipment, but the air circulation and treatment facility. Without that, the clean rooms won't stay clean for long and yield would plummet to zero.

#4673203

scoter man1

2013-10-10 22:08

Well, with all the sales the console are doing, Gddr 5 should be cheap as... chips soon.

How's that gonna help ram prices? That's graphics card memory.

#4673389

icedman

2013-10-11 06:52

Hynix makes a lot of nvidias ddr5 ram and the ps4 is using ddr5 for both system ram and graphics, ddr5 should stay dirt cheap