There is currently a cartel going on on ram ICs. Once the chinese offered the last american ram producing company( I forget it's name) to move its production to China, ram pricing started climbing, the company is healthy again and we are still seeing price hikes, so China is for once investing in homegrown production. My guess it will be no earlier than 2019 before we see prices dropping again.

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:50 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net> wrote:

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 2:46 PM, zap <zapper@openmailbox.org> wrote:

>> bottom line it's far too expensive and quite impractical. 4GB is the
>> practical limit at the moment and even that's stupidly expensive
>> relatively speaking.
>>
>> l.
>
> Ah... okay I had no idea it would be that expensive if you made it from
> scratch. my bad.

hey not a problem. just have to keep an eye on prices for DDR3 (and
DDR4 when it's more popular for ECs) over the next few years.

l.

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