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the-laughing-man

I know you guys probably know but I was just checking out RAM prices at Scan.co.uk and RAM has fallen through the floor.

I bought for my Vista machine in Feb and it cost me around £160 for 2GB Corsair XMS2 CL4 it's now an amazing £40

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=402849

If you guys need any, or imagine you'll have to upgrade in the future now is the time!

I started playing UT3 on Vista and it actually takes 1.5GB of RAM to run, add to that the 700MB Vista tends to take for me in general and I'm at 2.2GB. I only have 2GB of RAM atm so I'm upgrading to 4GB for the hell of it.

(I know it wont show the full 4GB but I'm not worried, apparently it'll come in at 3.4GB? and every little helps!)

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

Not quite. Whilst it's cheap, it's DDR2. And thesedays, if a computer has DDR2 RAM then it's probably already upgraded. The new hotness is DDR3 (which is once again, reassuringly expensive).

the-laughing-man

I know a lot of people who have held back off upgrading because games didn't need it yet and XP ran fine on 1GB generally.

With Crysis and the next gen ariving and seemingly being designed for the Vista PCs with insanely high requirements it's never a bad idea to be prepared Wink

I'm yet to see anything that uses DDR3 that is less than an "Uber Enthusiast" system, I probably wont even look at it till my next system which is years away, hell we'll be on DDR4 by then!

the-laughing-man

lol, I guess C&C still runs happily on it? Wink

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

the-laughing-man wrote:
I'm yet to see anything that uses DDR3 that is less than an "Uber Enthusiast" system, I probably wont even look at it till my next system which is years away, hell we'll be on DDR4 by then!

I'm still running DDR1 Smiley

My equipment is a good 3 years old and still going strong. Only thing holding it back is a dodgy SATA cable which causes my system to die occasionally (I'm getting it replaced soon) and my GeForce 6800GT (I can't run Portal at 1600x1200 @ 60FPS Sad

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Harlequin
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Probably because all the RAM companies got fined a sh*tload of money planetwide, prices will be low for years to come.

the-laughing-man

well I'm not risking it, I'm cashing in now while I can Tongue Out

it's better than the £160 I paid last time!

TimP

I paid $89.99 for 2GB of RAM in July. The exact same RAM is $49.99 today. :O

cheong

the-laughing-man wrote:
I know a lot of people who have held back off upgrading because games didn't need it yet and XP ran fine on 1GB generally.

Agreed. But if now I want to upgrade my PC, probably I'll get x64 systems with lots of RAM. That'll also mean that most of my current hardware (except the harddisk I suppose) won't be moved into the new system. (I have DVD writer, but it's an early model so I feel it's slow on write now. I'll probably get a new one instead)

cheong

the-laughing-man wrote:
I know a lot of people who have held back off upgrading because games didn't need it yet and XP ran fine on 1GB generally.

Agreed. But if now I want to upgrade my PC, probably I'll get x64 systems with lots of RAM. That'll also mean that most of my current hardware (except the harddisk I suppose) won't be moved into the new system. (I have DVD writer, but it's an early model so I feel it's slow on write now. I'll probably get a new one instead)

ScanIAm
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Harlequin wrote:
Probably because all the RAM companies got fined a sh*tload of money planetwide, prices will be low for years to come.

That apparently didn't make them change prices on DDR ram which is probably more prevalent. Those same 2 1 Gig sticks are twice as much if your mobo uses DDR instead of DDR2 Sad