Anyone seen the price of RAM lately?

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[Smedley]

Yes, I was just pricing out a desktop build as my current laptop is 5 years old.

Everything was pricing well until the DDR5... what should cost under $200 is now closer to $500 or sold out everywhere.

The claim is that the corporate buyers (for AI) are buying up all the stock, and I saw a post the other day suggesting some companies are even getting out of the consumer sales and just stick to corporate sales (Corsair was mentioned), but no idea if that is true or fake news.

 

[RightOfSask]

It's not fake news. There are more or less only three companies that produce flash storage (including RAM). Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron. Micron just announced that they will no longer make products for regular consumers and just sell to corporate customers so that they can build their AI data centres.

 

[bobthefighter]

Yep wild times ahead with Micron leaving the consumer market and Nvidia telling board partners they aren't supplying RAM any more with the chipsets.

PC pricing is going to get so high.

 

[Hirudinea]

@bobthefighter

How long does it take to get ram manufacturing on line? Somebody is going to fill the market eventually.

 

[Nink]

@Hirudinea

Not without billions of dollars of tooling.

 

[Hirudinea]

@Nink

So DDR47 might be cheaper?

 

[Nink]

@Hirudinea

LOL

 

[bobthefighter]

Yep. Built a PC in March 2020, the day I was put on permanent work from home. So beat the price increases then.

Gave that computer (ryzen 5 3600x, 16GB DDR4, 5700XT) to my daughter a couple of years ago.

Built a new one (ryzen 7 7800x3d, 32GB DDR5, 6800xt) for some very rare gaming. Don't care about raytracing and just play at 1440p, so the 16GB of VRAM has been nice.

I can't imagine building a PC now with RAM, soon SSD as well as graphic card prices. Going to price a lot of people out for sure.

I was telling a co-worker who wanted to buy a laptop during black Friday to buy ahead of time since RAM already went up. He looked and the laptop he was looking at was sold out, and the higher priced model was $400 more overnight.

 

[RightOfSask]

It's not just computers. Expect your next iPhone, kitchen appliance, car, TV ... anything that remotely has a computer in it to be more expensive.

 

[bobthefighter]

Yes. Thankfully I just got a new phone this year, but now looking at buying a new car VERY soon rather than wait until next year since we prefer to buy in cash.

 

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[d01tg0d0wn]

Buy ram and hold. Sell when prices moon?

???? Profit ????

 

[brutana_dilewski]

Gonna need a HELOC to build a new goddamn PC....first GPUs and now this shit.

 

[ovarieasy]

POP

 

[Jack Layton]

Gaming and AI is for dummies.
You can make millions on 20 year old hardware, servers or any workstation.

 

[Hirudinea]

OH NO JACK LAYTON HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED BY INDIANS!

 

[Nink]

Why did I read that in Cartman's voice?

 

[MuchoRelax0]

Was looking for a Black Friday deal and noticed SSDs are up a lot. My portable drive I got last year is double the price “on sale”

 

[Smedley]

Holy crap, has it ever... on Oct 13 I bought a 2tb Samsung EVO Plus M2 SSD for $169.99, right now it is $264.73; 55.73% increase in 2 months!

 

[Jack Layton]

Diamond wafer drives are coming, you will store 25XB for $50.

 

[d01tg0d0wn]

What ever happened to using your own meat cells to store data? Who dont want to store your favorite files in your own body? Apparently the human body can store all the data you can throw at it and if you work out and gain more muscle you can store even more of those tough to store files. Just dont lose an arm or a leg in a car accident because data retrieval is a nightmare and also very gross / messy

 

[Trudeaus coke dealer]

I was worried about shit like this during covid so I made it a point to buy and hoard as much memory as I could. Turns out it's not the solution I thought it was because although I haven't experienced it yet there is this thing called bit rot that can make your files unreadable.

From what I gather you should make a new back up every 5 years or so. Though I have one HDD sitting at 9 years old now that hasn't caused me any issues yet.

 

[Nink]

If your looking to store anything over the long haul you want hard drives in a raid configuration. SSDs are great for speed but you can only write over them so many times before they wear out.

 

[rilyn]

Can confirm, RAM I bought from amazon in May for $60, is now priced at @ $214... Wut??

 

[HuntStevenson]

How long till they cut us off the power grid as the government needs to feed AI data centers with power.

 

[ChevChelios]

They won't do that because it'd interfere with our political indoctrination via the media. Some form of energy rationing is likely, though ("for the planet!!")

 

[Hirudinea]

Rolling blackouts just like South Africa.

 

[TOPDAWG]

Honestly the demand for power might be a good thing maybe we'll get some damn innovation in that area that we haven't gotten in the last 50 years.

Of course the faggot cdn government is going to say it's about green energy.

 

[TOPDAWG]

The issue is now that Ram's up in price fucking morons think all computer parts should be more expensive. I'm looking for PC parts to upgrade my nephews computer. I'll pick him up a 2060 super GTX for gaming. Getting that for 150 off Facebook marketplace. He's only 13 so he doesn't need a 4080TI or anything insane like that. He's fine playing at 1080p. So a 2060 will run most modern games at medium to high settings he doesn't need 120 FPS.

The issue is what I built him last time is just a Intel 7th gen cpu that's going to be a bottleneck.


To replace the CPU and motherboard to go with it and you're looking at like 300 dollars right now which is fucking overpriced. I may look at AMD motherboard combo as I might be a bit cheaper than Intel.

Here is the current hardware.