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That's insane. I literally just got that same kit of memory free in a NewEgg bundle just 2 months ago! And the 32GB kits I was looking at were all priced at around $75-125 for 32GB
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First they came for the hard drives, and I did not speak out because I didn't need a hard drive. Then they came for the GPUs and I did not speak out because I had a pretty dope GPU. Then they came for my 8gb of ram and there was nobody left to speak out for me.
I swear there's a new gold rush every time I want to upgrade my pc.
It wouldn't be quite so bad if the previous gold rush ended first, but they seem to just be stacking up.
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This is why I'm still running ddr4. Every time I think about upgrading a generation, there's a run on some integral component.
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The 64GB kit I purchased Aug 2024 for $195 is now listing for $540
I wonder how long ill be staying on my AM4 motherboard... those updated CPUs for gaming that AMD came out with might be my only option for a long time.
I was told I was probably overdoing it putting 96GB in my PC a year or two ago. Be that true, but if this pricing doesn't ease up by the time it becomes a server, my ZFS cache will love it!
I have 128gb of corsair ddr5 in my closet. IM RICH!
Just did a quick check, it's worth double what I paid for it. I'll just let it sit in my closet until it's worthless.
I also have 128gb of ddr5 ram
And 64gb of ddr5 ram
And some laptop ddr5 ram
I'm going to wrap them all in Saran Wrap and stick them up my ass so my brain works faster
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I swear I bought some RAM just at the start of October for reasonable prices. Did it change so quickly?
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Finally set up my proxmox server, been procrastinating for a year. Thought on a whim, "I'm only using 2 of my 4 slots, and I could benefit from a bit more RAM. It's DDR4, can't be that expensive".
Yeah... It was that expensive. More expensive than when I bought the stuff originally when this computer was new.
Bitch, are you surge pricing ram? Cuz it looks like you're surge pricing ram....
I think that in the long run, the RAM shortage will turn into a glut of much faster and larger DDR5 RAM sticks. Provided if you can wait for the transition to AM6, an AM5 endgame system will have pretty good RAM.
They are going to pivot all that processing to the next snale oil scheme. Do you think its a coincidence that rhe AI hype came immediately after crypto crashed?
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As someone buying load of secondhand tech, you don't need the latest and greatest
My husband and I have been using computers we built 15 years ago and we decided this year we'll finally build new computers... Lmao sucks to be us :( already built mine, his is almost done but missing a key component... RAM lmaooooo
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I can never get people to understand this. I've got servers running on i7 8th gens, with stock 16GB ram. I could upgrade, but no need. People thinking they need 128GB to plays games are delusional.
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What market are you shopping at?!
If you want to see a good set of graphs on pricing over time, PC Parts Picker does some good ones. It's absolutely INSANE how bad it's getting. The graphs in question.
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Lol pricing computer parts like they do fish in an expensive restaurant.
What a time to be alive.
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