How long until DDR4 prices recover?

>>59255797
Not this year. In fact, it's going to get worse as more and more phones make the switch.

Why in the fuck did they go up? I got 64gb for $250 like 6 months ago. I wanted to grab some more for a Ryzen build just now and it's fucking twice that.

>>59255831
http://www.pcgamer.com/heres-why-ddr4-ram-prices-have-spiked/

tl;dr: Smartphones.

>>59255831
Demand>Supply

>>59255820

will it really get worse? not quite there in having enough for my build, and want to wait for r5 to see if i should go kaby lake or r5 1600x.

>>59255820
If demands keeps that high, production will just scale up, thus reducing prices again.
we never saw ddr3 prices spikes because of phones.

DDR4 has gone up? Makes me feel glad for falling for 16GB meme when I did

>>59256384
We only saw Ddr3 spike because of zome stupid factory fire in chingchong memory land. I remember building a PC for a mate, and he paid 1.5x more than I paid for 'worse' ram.

>>59257384
same here desu. I was so tempted to do the "upgrade later" thing rather than just plunk all my money at once.

go thing I bought early

>>59256384
Production doesn't just "scale up" overnight. It'll be a good while before supply is able to meet demand again.

>>59255797
Never.

>>59255831
Just move half of it over to your Ryzen toaster. Like you need 64 gigs anyway.

What made the price go up?

>>59256384
Do you really think the industry would lie to its customers?

Do you really think businessmen would do that?

My mobo isn't compatible with DDR4 anyway

>>59257858
jewry

>>59257858
A gas explosion killed all the DDR4 companies in the world.

>>59255797
Never. Buy NOW. They're going to STABLIZE at the end of the year, but nobody's saying anything about shit going DOWN.

>>59257605
It's a FreeNAS system so I do need it. Also I'm hearing mixed messages if Ryzen supports ECC anyway so it might be a total waste too.

>>59258621
Ryzen does support ECC. It's not certified so they can't advertise it yet, but the hardware support is there.

I've got told a factory or so got burn and that's why general prices (not only RAM) went up.

Is it true?

heh, wow I didn't notice my DDR4 is $40 on Newegg now that when I bought it a little over a year ago, kek.

>>59258916
It's never the case.
The factory did burn down.

RAM manufacturers know what's good and that's high prices.
Long as nobody does the stupid thing and starts producing for cheaper than can keep that going.

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>>59255797
>I bought a late-DDR3 motherboard
>No reason to update yet
>See these threads

Feels nice okay

DRAM prices will continue to rise until Q3 2017

In short, buy DDR4 RAM next year.

Just bought 2x16GB.

Fuck it's expensive.

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>buy 16GB DDR4 for new build along with new CPU last Thursday
>something's off with the total, but it's 10pm so fuck it
>forget
>memory arrives in the mail
>i bought 2 sets instead of 1
There's a special word for being retarded and not looking carefully before clicking the buy button.

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>tfw fell for the 16 GiB DDR4 meme 6 months ago

>>59255797
when collusion by manufacturing companies stops

>>59256384
>>59255853
>they fell for the supply and demand meme
top kek