1. 1GB pair mean have 2 512MB...

2. 1 stick on mobo = 1GB, so, 2 stick 1GB = 2GB lor...

hey!! Thanks for that article!! I see ram prices always go up years after years everytime when christmas and CNY approach. But was wondering why it didn't happen this 2006/2007. Lo and behold!!! Somebody is doing something about this at last!!!

But the sad thing is even thought they are fined 90mil but where is the money goes to

I'm surprsied though, if they're getting fined so hard, they can't be dropping price that bad. But its true, OEMs have been stocking up on ram in anticipation of Vista, but now turns out not many people interested in Vista. WinXP doesn't need that much ram-I can run C&C generals, do video editing in sony vegas & Adobe Encore, use Photoshop, surf firefox with 20+tabs ALL AT THE SAME TIME and STILL have 100+mb available with less than 100mb page file usage. Wonder how can I possibly use up 2GB?

You can't run all of those at the same time without bottlenecking your processor, unless you're using a kickass superproc. and have you REALLY used Vista. It uses less ram than touted really.

Yes. Agreed absolutely. So many people has pre-assumption that VISTA sucks ur RAM and is slow yadda yadda...they're so very WRONG.

The money will go back to CONSUMERS.

Well, to quote myself, I'm only talking about winxp. I have not used Vista. So no comment on that from me. And I was talking about how much ram is needed, not that all of the programs are using the proc at the same time. However, the programs MUST be in memory/pagefile to be open at all, so what I'm saying is that for winXP you don't really need that much ram.

About OEMs, they have been shipping systems with typically 512mb of ram, occationally less (which may be a little low for vista, I don't really know). About time they started building systems with more ram (especially considering vista needs a bit more), hence their sudden massive purchase a while back.

Sorry if there was a misunderstanding on what I posted earlier.

RAM price will go up a bit after cny. So grab ur new stick now b4 holiday.

Are you sure? If yes i have to buy 2 sticks b4 CNY

Yup... the word is that those sneaky dram fella's will increase again during Cebit when people are not watching.

Hehe..then all of you can come and get from the bulk sections here..looks like all the sub-RM200 ram sellers are posting in this forum..

haha u alrdy missed my sales on Micron D9s

Yea, i heard exactly the same thing too. Now RAMs price is low becoz supplier have eccessive stock which left over from Dec 06 (becoz xmas and new year sales demad is lower than they expected) So for now supply>demand = price drop.

Aft CNY RAM price will increase. Becoz during CNY, China chipset factories will close for 3 weeks. Not producing any chips so no more RAMs production and causing shortage of supply. So RAMs price will increase aft CNY (and it happen almost every year).

Thts wht i heard. Dont flame me if RAMs price still dropping after CNY.

This post has been edited by yehlai: Feb 15 2007, 12:53 PM

wahhhh the price before this inccident was so cheap ARGHHHHH i bought my ram ddr2 667 one 1gb 380 / piece

hope will drop the price soon want to upgrade it

that time when you bought the price was like 40% more expensive than 2 months ago

Nobody will frame you...maybe they will buy from you somemore...hahaha...

Wat kok you tok? Ram price already bottomed up di.

by the way.... the article mentioned in this thread is totally historical and has nothing to do with the recent fluctuations.

Electronic stuff especially computer component will increase da price after CNY
due to China market
thats what i heard from computer shop
if he lie than consider me lie

Oh yea, how? All i see is the money going to the government and in this case, US gov =.=

About the price dropping, i think is one of the reason, not the main reason IMHO cause as someone already mention, supply-demand and another reason partly because of Vista