Quote from: citronick on November 30, 2017, 12:15:29 AM

Quote from: VoskCoin on November 29, 2017, 11:55:01 PM

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what are your guys preferred rams? / why?

Anyone picking up an S9 from the current batch?

Been using Crucial since my first rig in 2015 - so far no issues with this brand as far as RAMs are concerned.

Anybody noticed that RAMs are more expensive nowadays?

Lately with this China motherboards that uses notebook style memory, my supplier's recommendation on ADATA and RAMAXEL, quite spot on - no issues so far.

Since we are in this topic, best USB stick for me is Sandisk USB 3.0 Cruzer series, works very well in smOS, nvOC and also not too shabby with running virtual Windows images like Win2Go.

Canaan sent me an email about the new A8 series... so will save funds for that.

Yup, RAM has been on the upswing for more than a year now. I noticed this first when the price nearly doubled in the 4 months from when i built my first rig (Sept'16) to my 4th rig in Feb-17. In addition, I deal with various kinds of memory in my current job, so have a lot of trending data from that as well. Historically, it's been a U shaped curve with lots of ups and downs, but as noted, the last year plus has been spiking for almost all typed of RAM. it's interesting that even some of the old tech like DDR3 has even risen more (as a %) because there's just not as much of it in the supply chain but there is apparently still demand for it. Now I heard HBM2 is experiencing really bad supply issues, so likely won't end any time soon.