You can almost taste how these manufacturers are not feeling well in their skin with these RAM prices and have to add useless features like that to make the price seem more justified.
It's not the manufacturer's fault that the world economy is capitalistic in nature. This current price atmosphere is the simple product of supply and demand. The real target of your ire should be retailers that jack the price through the roof to make a tidy profit.
Supply and demand gets normalized sooner or later, because capacities get increased, manufacturing processes get optimized and improved. But just like in the HDD sector they dont want to. They love their little cartel, where they can dictate high prices.
Retailers already dont earn that much from it, because of huge competition.
@ philehidiout - They can't lose what they don't have, right?
I'm with your intent - I'm not going to buy these light shows either. I'm all for a minimal, clean aesthetic in my case, and I would prefer to get a lower price than any added cost. I'm sure there is a market for them, but I prefer not to be in that target market.
If the price of DDR4 was reasonable full stop I would be considering an upgrade right now. But, because of the stupidity of the pricing I'm not going to consider it at all and will just use what I have. As for the Blackpool illuminations, I won't waste a penny on it. My case has a window on it but that's because the case I wanted happened to have one. I build a PC to function, not to distract me whilst I'm trying to work. If I wanted it to look pretty, I'd stick a nudie calendar on the side.
WTH!!? I'm impressed they can now incorporate IR blasters in DDR modules but for lighting? Could it be more useless? What's the point of glowing memory modules anyway.. Take the damn leds off and reduce the price or add some extra memory. Paint them with fluorescent paint if you want to give some lighting options, we can then point UV lights at them and get the same effect.
The whole electronics industry became a cartel long ago. And the king there is Intel as anyone can compare. Try to justify the difference in price of $20 4B transistors A11 mobile processors and some $2000 4B transistors Intel server processors.
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Beaver M. - Friday, January 19, 2018 - link
You can almost taste how these manufacturers are not feeling well in their skin with these RAM prices and have to add useless features like that to make the price seem more justified.Ninhalem - Friday, January 19, 2018 - link
It's not the manufacturer's fault that the world economy is capitalistic in nature. This current price atmosphere is the simple product of supply and demand. The real target of your ire should be retailers that jack the price through the roof to make a tidy profit.Beaver M. - Friday, January 19, 2018 - link
Supply and demand gets normalized sooner or later, because capacities get increased, manufacturing processes get optimized and improved. But just like in the HDD sector they dont want to. They love their little cartel, where they can dictate high prices.Retailers already dont earn that much from it, because of huge competition.
philehidiot - Friday, January 19, 2018 - link
That's fine by me, I just won't upgrade and they'll lose any money from me.romrunning - Friday, January 19, 2018 - link
@ philehidiout - They can't lose what they don't have, right?I'm with your intent - I'm not going to buy these light shows either. I'm all for a minimal, clean aesthetic in my case, and I would prefer to get a lower price than any added cost. I'm sure there is a market for them, but I prefer not to be in that target market.
philehidiot - Saturday, January 20, 2018 - link
If the price of DDR4 was reasonable full stop I would be considering an upgrade right now. But, because of the stupidity of the pricing I'm not going to consider it at all and will just use what I have. As for the Blackpool illuminations, I won't waste a penny on it. My case has a window on it but that's because the case I wanted happened to have one. I build a PC to function, not to distract me whilst I'm trying to work. If I wanted it to look pretty, I'd stick a nudie calendar on the side.renegade800x - Friday, January 19, 2018 - link
WTH!!? I'm impressed they can now incorporate IR blasters in DDR modules but for lighting? Could it be more useless? What's the point of glowing memory modules anyway.. Take the damn leds off and reduce the price or add some extra memory.Paint them with fluorescent paint if you want to give some lighting options, we can then point UV lights at them and get the same effect.
SanX - Friday, January 19, 2018 - link
The whole electronics industry became a cartel long ago. And the king there is Intel as anyone can compare. Try to justify the difference in price of $20 4B transistors A11 mobile processors and some $2000 4B transistors Intel server processors.Pinn - Monday, January 22, 2018 - link
Simple. Expensive people like me working at Intel on making sure those server processors work.Gregorius - Thursday, January 25, 2018 - link
Wow! I waited all my life for this amazing technological breakthrough!