There were some threads like this before. It may be because some companies are producing flash memory, and maybe because resources are spread thin, because right now, companies are trying to produce both ddr and ddr2.
Throw in new AM2 and Conroe systems causing a buying frenzy. RAM chips are traded as a commodity unlike CPUs this works about the same as petrolium causing prices increases just by one company sitting on product just to drive prices up and sell higher. Although a lot of mobos still support DDR1, it's rare to find the good OC stuff anymore. "Money talks, BS walks"!
Neither Conroe nor AM2 CPUs cause a buying frenzy for RAM. Vista is however: OEMs need to build their X-mas PCs right now, and they all need to be "Vista ready" to be saleable.
Which is why I'm not sure why RAM prices are supposed to go down in the immediate future.
I remember a Time when memory prices increase more then double... They blamed it on a fire in Japan or some other Asian country...
Well they faced an anti-trust (look under Computer Manufacturing) lawsuit brought on by the old Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. He is the old one, because we (New Yorkers) just voted him in as the Governor of New York. Thank God...
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