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64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months (www.techradar.com)
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[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 22 points 22 hours ago (7 children)

I can't believe how lucky I was to upgrade my desktop before the surge. This is an outrage!

[–] G0rb@infosec.pub 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Built a new PC in April 2025. 192GB DDR5 for 650€. This is totally insane.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago

I did my desktop but skipped my server.

Even decade+ old used surplus server DDR4 didn't escape the apocalypse.

[–] hdsrob@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Same .. I hadn't upgraded since 2012, and had some extra cash, so rebuilt in August. Feeling pretty lucky to have done it then, and really glad I went ahead and put 64GB RAM in it.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

You waited a long time holy shit. I regret not getting 64 gb in 2024 when I did my current build.

[–] hdsrob@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Yea, the 2012 build was a 3770k with 16 gb ram, multiple SSDs, a GTX680, etc. So it was a pretty fast machine back in the day.

I upgraded the video card and SSD drives several times, just didn't have the budget to replace it all at once for a long time.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

That processor was nice overclocked for a while so I am not surprised.

[–] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 5 points 21 hours ago

I did as well which is a polite way of saying I blew all my RAM savings on the how overpriced GPUs were at the time

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Same. Feel like I could sell my rig for more than it cost me a 18 months ago.

[–] hdsrob@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Minus the case and video card, I have an entire 3rd gen i7 machine sitting in a box that would actually make a pretty good machine for a lot of different uses.

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

I upgraded January last year. My only regret now is not getting 64GB of ram