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[dhoward_westexetc]

I'd have to disagree there (but only slightly). DDRII RAM prices have skyrocketed recently compared to DDRIII. For instance at Scan you would pay £20 for a pretty average 2GB stick of DDRII 800 RAM, for DDRIII a 'performance' RAM would be £15 for a 4GB stick. It's getting to the point where I am seriously looking at upgrading a couple of motherboards/processors so I can pig-out on DDRII prices and speeds rather than paying a premium to buy ore DDRII.

 

You mean pig out on DDR3 I assume?

 

I don't recall a time when 4 GB of DDR2 (2 x 2GB) was less than £35 myself, unless I missed something?!!

 

But I agree DDR3 is now so insanely cheap (£29 for 8 GB DDR3, 2 x 4 GB), much more so than DDR2 presumably because DDR2 isn't produced in as great volume any more, that I am starting to think about whether we can pig out on DDR3. But I cannot do that really until I can get 64-bit Windows 7 live very shortly, as our DDR3 PCs are already maxed out to the 4 GB limit that Windows 7 32-bit has!

 

Sadly, a lot of our stock is still DDR2-based, though a sizeable proportion of it is due for replacement in the next couple of years as EOL.

[Dos_Box]

DDRII was at the same levels as DDRIII currently is early last year IIRC. Since then the price has started to rise rapidly.

I have to admit it has actually dropped a bit as DDRII was a bit higher in spring. I shouldn't really complain though as I recall paying over £100 for a 128MB PC100 stick 'back in the day'.

[dhoward_westexetc]

DDRII was at the same levels as DDRIII currently is early last year IIRC. Since then the price has started to rise rapidly.

I have to admit it has actually dropped a bit as DDRII was a bit higher in spring. I shouldn't really complain though as I recall paying over £100 for a 128MB PC100 stick 'back in the day'.

 

Think it fluctuated a bit. I doubt that DDR2 will drop any more in price though as the trend seems to be DDR3 - then there's DDR4.

 

PC100 and PC133 - that takes me back!!!!

[dhoward_westexetc]

We have approx 90 Dell SX280's with 2GB comfortably running CS4.

 

Our P4s with 2GB RAM run CS5.5. Not quick but usable.

[dhoward_westexetc]

It was £12.99 for 4GB DDR2 RAM on 24/12/2008. That was the day I bought 8GB.

 

http://i.imgur.com/ZazDN.png

 

IIRC, DDR2 remained really cheap during the first half of 2009 too.

 

I missed that one! Darn! Would've been nice to have pigged out on DDR2 for our site then!

 

Oh well, can't turn the clock back eh?

[Arthur]

I don't recall a time when 4 GB of DDR2 (2 x 2GB) was less than £35 myself, unless I missed something?!!

It was £12.99 for 4GB DDR2 RAM on 24/12/2008. That was the day I bought 8GB.

 

http://i.imgur.com/sboVY.png

 

IIRC, DDR2 remained really cheap during the first half of 2009 too.

[Arthur]

Would've been nice to have pigged out on DDR2 for our site then!

At least we can pig out on DDR3 now. It will probably start getting more expensive over the next couple of years.

[dhoward_westexetc]

At least we can pig out on DDR3 now. It will probably start getting more expensive over the next couple of years.

 

Yeah, I have some pig out plans already! Just involves getting Windows 7 64-bit going fully on our network....

Shame it would involve re-imaging our Staff Laptops to 64-bit though.

[gshaw]

No trouble with CS4 and 2GB RAM here on Core2Duo E8400s. CPU and RAM are fine for pretty much any Core2Duo system, it's the HDDs that bog things down...

[dhoward_westexetc]

No trouble with CS4 and 2GB RAM here on Core2Duo E8400s. CPU and RAM are fine for pretty much any Core2Duo system, it's the HDDs that bog things down...

 

That's why I am becoming a big fan of SSDs.....