Everyone loves a little good news, right? How about this: DDR4 RAM prices have been steadily dropping over the last few months and DRAMeXchange is predicting that it will continue to slide over the final months of 2018 too. In a PC gaming hardware market where we only ever seem to be seeing prices on the rise it’s refreshing to see some action on the other side of the scale. Graphics cards have been the components leading the charge in the headlines of the last couple of years in terms of ridiculous price hikes, thanks to the nightmare chimera with the multiple flailing heads of cryptocurrency mining, dwindling stock, and a complete lack of competition letting Nvidia price with impunity. But DRAM has been lurking there in the background with prices ever on the rise, making gaming PC builds even more expensive and upgrades prohibitive. That’s mostly because there aren’t that many big memory manufacturers around, and everything from phones to your smart TV needs memory. Plus there’s the fact the biggest DRAM makers have been accused of some rather nefarious price-fixing too. A report on Guru3D points to DRAM prices dropping by a little over 10% on the whole in the last month alone. The reasoning is that the market has entered a period of oversupply as production at the various fabs has been exceeding demand for the first time in a good long while. That’s the reason Samsung and SK Hynix have called a halt to their own… [Read full story]
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