Bad news for memory buyers: if you’ve waited to buy DRAM, hoping that the market may continue lower, you may have missed your window.

Spot market watcher DRAMeXchange.com reported Monday that spot prices for all types of DDR-2 DRAM had jumped by 15 to 26 percent, with the highest price increases seemingly reserved for the high end of the DDR-2 market.

Is this worth getting excited about? Depends on if this is a trend or not. The range in price for a 1-Gbit 128Mx8 800MHz DRAM was just $1.10 to $1.25 for Monday. Combine eight of those for a gigabyte of memory and that’s a couple of coffees at Starbucks or so. Although it depends on what you’re in the market for, you can buy 4 Gbytes of DDR-2 memory for between $70 and $360 or so, depending on if want that DRAM spread out over one stick or two. Even certain DDR-3 memory is still less than $80.