DRAM prices to increase due to a fire

God, the xms3 ram i was going to buy has gone out of stock within the last hour. Seems like we'll be seeing alot of ram sales on ebay, forums and gumtree.

inb4 corsair value 1333 becomes as pricey as vengeance pro :c

-edit- it will apparently effect the price of graphics cards as well on both sides. People on the various sites I follow are already saying they're seeing prices increase. No upgrading for me.
 
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Great, the first time im going to have to buy ram in my life and this happens. Hopefully it has settled down when i come to buying, Corsair vengeance pro 8gb kit at 1866Mhz has went from £65 to £77 on amazon.
 
Scan is running very slowly because of this it seems. Also, graphics card prices will be effected as well so people are buying tonnes of them.
 
It might not be as bad as 1st thought.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/04/china-hynix-idUSL2N0H013R20130904?irpc=932

(Reuters) - South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix Inc said on Wednesday a fire at its Wuxi, China, plant caused no "material" damage to critical chip-fabrication equipment, and it expects to resume production shortly.

"Currently, there is no material damage to the fab equipment in the clean room, thus we expect to resume operations in a short time period so that overall production and supply volume would not be materially affected," company spokesman Seongae Park said in a statement.

Park added the company will continue to assess the extent of damage from the fire, which broke out during equipment installation.
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First we have an increase in metal prices causing slightly higher mobo prices, then floods that cause HDD shortages and cause prices to rise. Now we have fires burning down Chinese factories causing RAM prices to rise. Is this the beginning of the apocalypse? :lol:

As long has nothing happens to cause a GPU shortage and or massive price increases I think we will be ok :D

I hope we see RAM prices drop to what they were in 2012 again someday though, £35 for 8gb of 1600mhz DDR3 was a bargain.
 
SieB said:
I hope we see RAM prices drop to what they were in 2012 again someday though, £35 for 8gb of 1600mhz DDR3 was a bargain.
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Oh the days back then ;_; *tearful nostalgia*. My xms3 ram was £35 when I bought it back in 2012. Now the same kit is around £55 on scan. I swear vengeance and other high spec ram was £55 (for 8gb) back then.
 
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Oh the days back then ;_; *tearful nostalgia*. My xms3 ram was £35 when I bought it back in 2012. Now the same kit is around £55 on scan. I swear vengeance and other high spec ram was £55 (for 8gb) back then.
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IIRC Aria had 8gb of 1886mhz Corsasir vengeance LP RAM for £45 back then at one point.
 
First it was the hard drives now its the ram ... what is this world coming too :(
hopefully they wont take as long to recover and hope this does not effect their company to much so they can stay in business and I'm glad nobody was hurt or worse.
 
A long time ago when I first built my rig, must of been 2011 I bought 8GB of Vengeance 1600 for £46, then I sold that and bought 16GB of Vengeance LP 1600 for £84 to fit under my cooler about a month later.

In January I bought a £216 Dominator Platinum 2133 kit and my friend thought I was insane... right now today its £269! I would sell it but, I do kinda need some ram. Reminds me of that time I could of sold my £40 hard drive for £90.


The only thing I have a stock of is fans, if there is a global shortage of SP120's I am gonna rake it in!

JR
 
Production should restart very soon with no implications on trade prices. No repeat of HDDpocalypse!
 
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Couldn't help but think of this when I read Hynix's press release :D

Nothing to see here....
 
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