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Crucial RAM price increase

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gian8989

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I have been looking at RAM price from crucial for the last month and there was a small increase every week. Suddenly today i notice a 20+€ (23+ $) increase (40€ in a month more or less).
Is there a reason why the price is going up so much (official site)?
 
For some reason I was able to pick up some Transcend PC3-8500 1067 MHz DDR3 SoDIMMs really cheap last week on Amazon.ca. 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) cost me CAD$45 or US$36, direct from Amazon.

Perfect for an upgrade for my old late 2008 Unibody Aluminum MacBook.

A week later and it is CAD$144 / US$115 from a third part seller, although I can get Corsair for CAD$80 / US$64.
 
Just went to buy 16gb of ram from Crucial for my new 2017 iMac i5 3.4 27" and the price is £163.19. Seems expensive?

Also my system has two 4gb modules installed, can I add one 8gb module leaving one slot free or do they have to be installed in pairs?
 
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Sir Ruben said:
Just went to buy 16gb of ram from Crucial for my new 2017 iMac i5 3.4 27" and the price is £163.19. Seems expensive?

Also my system has two 4gb modules installed, can I add one 8gb module leaving one slot free or do they have to be installed in pairs?
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You can leave the 2x4gb from apple inside.
Did you buy 2x8gb or 1x16gb?
You can leave 1 slot free.
Usually is better to buy them in pair because on this cpu ram works in dual channel: when you are going to open the imac to put the new ram you will see that the ram are in slot 1 & 3; new ram must be placed in slot 2 & 4.
 
+23,18€ (27$). Now 32GB (16x2) is 380,63€ (443$).

Never give up. You can always go higher.
 
gian8989 said:
Yeah! One would think that price of hardware would drop over time.
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The market has dictated that the only sensiblel use for a AMD graphics card is to "mine" various cryptocurrencies. Why expect rationality here?

The way I see it, you have a few choices:

pay the price at crucial.com
buy the same product from adorama, at a slightly reduced price.
reduce your ram requirements, and put in 16 GB now, with a full upgrade if and when DDR4 becomes cheaper.
 
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What an offer!!!
Now the RAM cost 2,44€ less -> € 383,07 (450,34€)
 
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