Is the Price on Double Data Rate 3 Memory Going to Come Down?

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2048Megabytes

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I was just looking on NewEgg.com and the cheapest I can find 2 gigabytes of Double Data Rate 3 memory is $200 (OCZ brand PC3 8500 memory). Are more motherboards being manufactured that utilize DDR3? When is the price going to drop to a reasonable level with this memory?
 
Probably not for a while. Plus the performance benefits aren't worth it at all for the price. Just get DDR2 or get a mobo that can use both DDR2 and DDR3 then when prices drop you can utilize the ram.
 
Currently DDR2 is the "standard" of today. DDR3 is currently too expensive, and the cas latencies are too high to see a fair improvement in contrast with the price.
 
shortymet55 said:
Why not just say DDR3? It took me like 2 min to figure out what u were asking, because I did not know what DDR stood for.
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I hate using abbreviations all the time. We use them so much we don't even know what the abbreviation means anymore. Now you know what DDR means.
 
spend 400$ and get the performance of my current ram, which has a cas latency of 3, and is natively 800MHZ

its not worth it, considering the ram i have can easily overclock to 1150MHZ with timings of 5-5-5-18
 
2048Megabytes said:
I hate using abbreviations all the time. We use them so much we don't even know what the abbreviation means anymore. Now you know what DDR means.
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This is driving me crazy here, it's one thing if you say it in the post, but saying the full name out in the title gets EXTREMELY annoying. For future reference, just say DDR2, DDR3, GB, MB, RAM, etc. You don't have to say "where can I get four gigabytes of double data rate 3 random access memory"

Secondly, how are we suppose to know when the prices will drop?
 
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