Too bad micron doesn't give a damn and would still fix their chip prices damned high

I don't know about that but for now over here, the prices for 1Gb DDR2 533Mhz sticks are about RM320/= which in my opinion is back to old prices. Too bad there ain't any valurams yet using Micron D9's

from what da computer dealer nearby told me.. some of the suppliers aren't going to release some stocks of RAM and have given the excuse that there's no stock because the price might be shooting up again.

anyway, i just looked inside the Memory, Drives, Media bulk and it seems that the price recently dropped 1-2 days ago. so I think better buy now then later.

DDR3 production samples are out, but I think it will be a even longer time for it to catch on compared with DDR2 from DDR. Even the best of current DDR2 cannot be used up to its fullest potential, especially with intel systems. Problem-limited by FSB; even C2D which using 1066FSB only translates to dual channel DDR667, more and the FSB will not allow it to be any faster. Even if overclock super gila kau kau to 2000FSB (board want to mati liau by then-must voltmod even to be stable  ) its only dual channel DDR1000 (easily obtainable even with affordable OCing ram-below RM400-450/pair of 512=1GB). AMD systems can fully utilise memory at any speed thanks to integrated memory controller but have issues with overclocking beyond DDR800, have to drop to 2T (akibatnya kena OC lagi banyak cos performance loss )