The RAM Investment

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#1 Post by **palmboy5** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:13 am

So I regretted not buying up all the DDR2 RAM I could back when it was dirt cheap since they could later be sold for a very nice profit. SO, when DDR3 became dirt cheap like it is now? I went for it.

http://www.mylilsite.net/images/ddr3/56gb-label1.jpg
http://www.mylilsite.net/images/ddr3/56gb-face1.jpg

56GB worth of DDR3 desktop RAM (4GB sticks), so far. Albeit, this picture includes the RAM I am using in my computers as well.

Even if there isn't an absurd rise in prices like there was 2 years ago, once the next generation RAM comes out and prices of older RAM goes up, I'll still turn a 2x+ profit.

Directive · #2 Post by **Directive** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 7:06 am

2005 · #3 Post by **2005** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 4:31 pm

I probably wouldn't have.

DDR3 ram has gotten SO cheap lol. I think in my newegg expert flier there were 16GB kits for $80. A little more then a year ago ( about 14 months) I paid $120 for 6GB of DDR3 ram.

I think it will get even cheaper. I don't remember DDR2 ram ever getting under $5 per GB

#4 Post by **palmboy5** » Thu Oct 06, 2011 2:22 am

The Patriot 16GB DDR3-1600 kit I got was $60 AR, I don't consider 8GB for $40 (16GB for $80) to be cheap anymore because at its lowest, I saw 8GB for $26.
The lowest prices have come and gone about a month ago and I can only see them to continue to go back up as they are now.

As for DDR2 prices at their low point, I got 4GB kits for $15 AR so that's under $5 per GB. It was the lowest they went before shooting back up to insane prices and never really coming back down. Again, even if this doesn't prove to be the case for DDR3, there is still the guaranteed high price when DDR3 becomes a replaced technology.

Anyway, my collection has grown to 72GB of DDR3 DIMM and 20GB of DDR3 SO-DIMM and that's probably going to be it for me due to the lack of cheap prices.

2005 · #5 Post by **2005** » Thu Oct 06, 2011 3:59 pm

You get better deals then I do though :p

With your MicroCenters and Frys!

I wouldn't have nearly as much money if I had access to those stores

#6 Post by **palmboy5** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 4:25 am

8GB for $35? Prices going down again

2005 · #7 Post by **2005** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 1:02 am

Too bad I didn't buy up a bunch of 2TB Hard Drives...

They are over double in price, who knows when they will come back down. Looks like no good HDD deals this holiday season

#8 Post by **palmboy5** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:10 am

Hah, I wanted to get some 3TB's, but they weren't cheap enough even before the Thailand flooding, so oh well. On the other hand, having seen this shit coming... I too should have just bought a bunch of any capacity to do resale. Silly us.

#9 Post by **palmboy5** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 4:13 am

Not bad at all XD

2005 · #10 Post by **2005** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 1:45 pm

Too bad my stupid i7 is triple channel. Even at that rate though it would still be worthwhile to buy two of those kits for $40 and stash away the extra DIMM.

Computer memory is about to get expensive according to an article on tomshardware. I think I may invest in a few kits now.

At the very least upgrade from my 6GB setup. Why not when it's so cheap! (and I think a speed increase from 1333 to 1600)

#11 Post by **palmboy5** » Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:53 am

I saw something interesting regarding RAM speed stuff with Dell. I was customizing I think the Alienware 14" when I changed the CPU to be a quad core and it said that such a setup requires a 1600MHz set of RAM... which didn't raise the price but still, that's weird...

Officially, it doesn't require 1600MHz.
http://ark.intel.com/products/53474/Int ... -2_40-GHz)

2005 · #12 Post by **2005** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 3:52 pm

Newegg just had a crazy sale that I missed.

They had a set of Kingston Hyper X DDR3 1666 memory sticks 2x4GB for $14.99 free shipping.

They sold out in literally 45 min or so. I was going to buy 10 kits.

#13 Post by **palmboy5** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 7:21 am

That sale on the ad page is proof that my glancing method for looking over those pages is flawed.