http://www.crucial.com/store/partspecs.aspx?imodule=CT2KIT51272BA1339

^^?

Thats really not that bad considering its 8GB and DDR3 RAM. Also I'm not 100% sure if this is only with HDD or if its also with RAM but about a month ago there was a fire in Japan or something at one of the big computer companys. I know for a fact that made the prices of HDD's skyrocket and it may have raised the prices of RAM.

uhhh that ram is almost 100bucks because of 3 things

1) its 2 ram sticks at 4gbs each.. 

2) its 1333-10600 which is pretty bloody good

3) you could most likely over clockthat ram making it even faster

plus i too heard of the computer parts fire... wiped out huge stock piles of HDD parts making it harder to get the supply for the building of more...

AKA dont fry your computer parts right now lolol

yeah DO NOT fry your parts! Just to help explain how drastic that fire was. I'm a college student and we all got 750GB Jump drives. Some of our other campuses didn't have these in stock and had to get jump drives after that fire. For the same price they only got around 30GB jump drives compared to the 750GB drives that we recieved. Very drastic change.

The flood in Taiwan back in October has also created a shortage in certain computer components, which has also contributed with prices for certain things to go up.

Umm, that RAM is NOT worth $100, and there really isn't a justification for it.

8GB kits of 2x4GB DDR-1333 DIMMS go for about $30-$35, not $100.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007611%20600006050%20600006069&IsNodeId=1&name=8GB%20%282%20x%204GB%29

Even really good, low-latency 1.5v DDR3-1333 (the kind that isn't just overclocked at higher voltages) is less than $40:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231308

Even an 8GB kit of good DDR3-1600, with low latency and voltage, is less than $40!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233180

Hell, even a kit of DDR3-2133, which has almost double the bandwidth, isn't $100

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231518

In short, the answer is: The store is a ripoff, and generally terrible. They don't even have the RAM specifications right. They're claiming their 8GB kit has 72 512MB chips, but that would be an absurd 36GB of RAM, not 8GB.

It's server memory. Their desktop memory is half the price.

always the main website of a company has always more expensive prices than the newegg , amazon and the rest ... when amazon  gains profit from an item they just slash the price and even the starting price is way cheaper  ---

ECC/Parity — ECC or parity modules look for errors in data and are most often found in servers and other mission-critical applications used by large networks and businesses.

Unless things have changed, ECC in desktop systems isn't common.

DOH!

ECC Memory, that explains it. ^_^; A 4GB ECC-capable DIMM can still be had for less than $50, but at least the price is just slightly high now, instead of absurd.

Yeah, that's not what you buy for desktops. Desktops don't need the error protection, and it introduces added latency, iirc (because it takes an extra clock cycle to do the error check/correction). You definitely just want the normal $30 DDR3.

Well i'm pretty sure Japan haveing a Tsunami and Earthquake did not help matters there is bound to be a knock on effect.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Japan-Earthquake-Tsunami-Bismaleimide-Triazine-Taiwan,12407.html