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Skyrocketing memory prices may get worse before getting better |
January 31, 2017
The price of desktop RAM keeps on going up, and the disappointing trend is expect to continue for a good chunk of 2017.Right now, the best price you’re going to find for 2 x 8GB desktop DDR4 RAM modules on Newegg is about $73. But if you want something from a larger brand like G.Skill or Corsair, expect to pay more—those 16GB kits are frequently selling for more than $100. The price increases began around mid-2016, as Newegg Business noted in a blog post in August. PCPartPicker's memory price trend page indeed shows the cost of all types of RAM surging upward since May or so. The reason at the time was that the big money was in producing DRAM for mobile devices, followed by servers, and then finally desktops.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3162994/computers/surging-ram-prices-may-get-worse-before-getting-better.html#tk.rss_all
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