RAM will rise in price again - lean/drodon/ofrio

According to Chinese analysts from MyDrivers, the price of RAM will continue to rise. It is expected that in the second quarter of this year, contract prices for DRAM chips for manufacturers will increase by 5-10%, which will ultimately lead to about a 20% rise in retail prices.

Earlier, the agency DIGITIMES Research warned that large DRAM suppliers: Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron are slowly starting to raise the price of RAM, but are in no hurry to increase and increase production capacity.

According to leading analysts, prices will continue to rise throughout 2021.

We did not have time to rejoice at the restoration of adequate prices for video cards and power supplies after the mining boom, when the leapfrog began again with prices that climbed up due to the rise in the dollar exchange rate. And as the saying goes – “trouble has come – open the gates”, the rise in prices due to the coronavirus in China begins to add to the growing dollar exchange rate.

And it looks like this is just the beginning.

But, we are no strangers, we have experienced much higher price increases, and we will survive that too.

Looking back, you realize that 2019 was a good year for an upgrade in every way. The rapidly cheaper and exciting AMD Ryzen 5 1600, 2600 and 3600 market made it possible to assemble an inexpensive and nimble computer with the prospect of new games. Fast and affordable, the GeForce GTX 1660 Super hit 2019, making it the go-to choice for 1080p gaming.

Experienced users, such as your humble servant, managed to buy new computers literally a week before the rise in price, having managed to jump on the last car of the departing train of low prices.

The most important thing is not to panic!

Decisions made in a state of panic and haste tend to turn out to be wrong. There is a good saying: “If you are suddenly thinking of buying something over $200, postpone the purchase and think for a week!”

Nobody has died from the fact that someone did not buy a computer on time. This is not a thing of paramount importance and you can live without it for six months or a year. Some people generally manage with smartphones with an android and nothing, live.

If your computer is simply outdated, but still working, then it is quite possible to sit out the time of increased prices, playing old games, I have already written about this many times. For example, “Old games zombie, forget about them!” and Opinion: Why are games getting worse and worse?

If you are left without a computer at all, then it is much more difficult, but quite fixable. Buy an old computer from second market as a temporary solution. The main thing is that he pulls the Internet. The minimum is a Core i3 2100 and 4-6 GB of memory. And with an SSD, such old cars just “fly”.

Plus, you get a lot of emotions when switching from such an ancient computer to a modern one, I have already noticed such an effect and wrote about it in the blogs “How to upgrade only when it is really necessary” and “How to get the most emotion from the upgrade”.

If you are an experienced user and, for example, are targeting AMD Ryzen 4000 series, which will be released at the end of the year, then you can grab some of the components now. Until they have risen in price to completely unacceptable prices.
For example, a good motherboard based on the B450 chipset, ASUS TUF B450M-PRO GAMING.

It is worth buying RAM for it right now. And it is not worth saving on it, and without the dollar exchange rate and the coronavirus, experts predicted an increase in the cost of RAM. It makes sense to immediately take 32 GB of good memory into the dual channel, because something tells me that we will not see such prices for memory anymore.

For example, Crucial Ballistix Sport LT White (BLS16G4D30AESC), with a single 16GB module and a frequency of 3000 MHz. Fast, inexpensive, excellent overclocking, and the volume of 32 GB will be enough for another five years, at least!