RAM Prices
 

As many of you know recently RAM has doubled in price. Her in Plymouth I bought 128 RAM for £20 before Christmas and the other day i found it for £40.

Two days ago however the price of RAM started to go down. For any of you that are interseted, RAM will drop all the way down to the same prices as they were before the great fluctuation in the middle of Summer so don't waste your money on it now!!. Just thought i'd let you people know. :)

http:/www.crucial.com/uk

By golly I think he's right! A 256Mb SDRAM thingy for my PC (£24 6 months ago, £66 a few days ago), is now £59! Still too much, obviously, but a step in the right direction nonetheless...

Does it really matter? Over here I can get:

RAMBUS 64M 800MHz $50.00

RAMBUS 128M 800MHz $88.00

RAMBUS 256M 800MHz $170.00

Useless fact: The reason for this increase in RAM price is due to a factory somewhere in Asia closing.

:)

When you want to buy ram, don't waste your money on rambus memory (unless that is the only kind your motherboard supports). Even though Rambus has a higher clock frequency, DDR Ram does quadrupa (or higher, I don't really remember) the amount of data per cycle. So DDR Ram is much better than Rambus ram.

And wait a while for ram prices to continue to go down. That's what I'm doing.

Since im not a RAM expert, could someone please explain the different types of RAM to me please. There's a new one just out, isn't there? :confused:

For slightly older computers there is the standard SDRAM
For Newer computers you either have DDR Ram or RDram (Rambus) making a total of 3 types.

DDR is the same as SDRAM but SDRAM only prosesses data on the rising clock. DDR prosesses data on the rising clock and falling clock theoretically making it twice as fast (theoretically, because it isn't really twice as fast but it is still a lot better).

I don't know everything anout RDram other than it has a higher clock frequency but DDR ram is still a lot faster than it (benchmarks proove it)

Thanks man! :up: That's helped me quite a bit! I have DDR RAM on my pc. Does that mean that my PC ain't comatible with RDram??
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You can only use DDR.

When you say that only "new" PC's can use the latest type of RAM, how new is new?
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DRAM
The most common type of computer memory is Dynamic RAM(DRAM). DRAM usually uses one transistor and a capacitor to represent one bit. The capacitors must be energized hundreds of times per second in order to maintain the charges (to remember its value.) Unlike firmware chips (ROMs, PROMs, etc.) both major varieties of RAM (dynamic and static) lose their contents when the power is turned off. In memory advertising, dynamic RAM is often erroneously stated as a package type; for example, "DRAMs, SIMMs and SIPs on sale." It should be "DIPs, SIMMs and SIPs," as all three packages typically hold dynamic RAM chips

SDRAM
Synchronous DRAM is a new DRAM technology that uses a clock to synchronize signal input and output on a memory chip. The clock is coordinated with the CPU clock so the timing of the memory chips and the timing of the CPU are in Synch. SDRAM saves time when executing commands and transmitting data, therefore increasing the overall performance of the computer.

DDR SDRAM
Double Data Rate SDRAM can theoretically improve RAM speed. It activates output on both rising and falling edge of the system clock.

RDRAM
Short for Rambus DRAM, a type of memory (DRAM) developed by Rambus, Inc. Whereas the fastest current memory technologies used by PCs (SDRAM) can deliver data at a maximum speed of about 100 MHz, RDRAM transfers data at up to 800 MHz.

Thanks for the help Nick and Ethan! :D

Yes, thank you all very much! :)

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