Does anyone know when will prices for RAM and drives drop to 2025 levels?
The question is to buy or wait.
32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
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Re: 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
#302Does anyone know when will prices for RAM and drives drop to 2025 levels? The question is to buy or wait.
No.
Re: 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
#303It's unbelievable and it's only getting worse. A 2x32GB DDR5 kit I paid $150 for 11 months ago costs $910 today from the same retailer. A 2x16GB DRR4 kit that was $105 last year is now $230. The RAM alone in my newest machine would sell for over double what I paid for the entire machine one year ago.
I have been wondering about selling one of my 32gb DDR5 sticks and use the money to buy something else. I don't think a gaming pc really needs more than 32gb ram anyway.
Re: 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
#304this is almost certainly a us tarriff/China sanctions thing rather than an AI thing. sticks here outside of the us tarriff system never really changed, I just bought like a month or two ago 128GB DDR5 for $500 at a time when US best buy was listing the same kingston 32GB sticks for $200 each. That said, getting hold of them was hard and needed a special order.
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Re: 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
#305Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Sohcahtoa82/saved/n76zkL I think I paid a total of around $5,500 for the current components of my PC. Hard to say for sure since my PC has been a Ship of Theseus for over 30 years and started as a 486. The link merely reflects its current state. At one point, PCPartPicker was showing my PC as worth $11,000. It's now at $7,200 without including the RAM or PSU . That would put it at $9,000…
There's nothing wrong with 1080p gaming though. You can get a $200 to $300 microcenter cpu+motherboard+16GB DDR5 bundle [1], then $300-$400 GPU, and you'll be able to play nearly every game on the market just fine at 1080p. I'm sure there are pre-builts using stockpiled RAM that are similar $1000 price range. And if you buy used you can do even better. $300-400 might get you a 5060 or a 9060XT right now [2][3] but if…
>There's nothing wrong with 1080p gaming though
Yeah. 4K is nice for text, but doesn't seem like a great deal for gaming given the 4x hardware requirement and/or weirdo interpolation technologies that may or may not work on AMD + Linux anyway.
Re: 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
#306As an ancient person, and considering my sense of inflation of other things I actually buy, This doesnt sound that high to me. At some point in my life CPU Ghz stopped rising and cores was the only thing to grow, and that seemed to be more slowly than clock rate did. So I guess I fully expected that asymptote to apply to RAM too. If you plot price per GB of ram across last 25 years the memory prices growth is barely…
I am also that many years old, and I don’t think your analogy holds for this particular situation. The exact same sticks/model #’s of RAM cost $200 last year, now costs $950. I don’t remember existing CPU’s ever going up in price by 5x (300-400% increases).
My point was never about cpu price, but that the pressures that made prices fall eventually faltered/stopped. Down 97.5% and then up 400% is still down 90%...
Re: 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
#307Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Sohcahtoa82/saved/n76zkL I think I paid a total of around $5,500 for the current components of my PC. Hard to say for sure since my PC has been a Ship of Theseus for over 30 years and started as a 486. The link merely reflects its current state. At one point, PCPartPicker was showing my PC as worth $11,000. It's now at $7,200 without including the RAM or PSU . That would put it at $9,000…
I'm just trying to imagine what I would tell a younger cousin who was still in highschool. I'm not sure I could recommend they get into pc gaming the way things are now, and that makes me sad.
I would say there's a ton of great games made >= 5 years ago, almost all still available, and cheap :)
Re: 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
#308Crap I regret never buying DDR5. Now I'm stuck on AM4. For now no issue but it can't last too long.
Re: 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
#309At one point I remember DDR2 ECC coating like $150-$180 Looking at it from that frame, it seems reasonable.
Everything is relative. I thought 128MB of SDRAM was a good deal at $100. I also thought $479 for 32GB of DDR4 was nuts back in 2016/2017.
> Everything is relative.
That makes me realize how much of society, economics and our nature is really like a current, ripples in a big ol ocean. Supply and demand baby.
Re: 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
#310And yet there's plenty available if you have the $375. That only makes sense if there's no shortage, but plenty of price gouging under the guise of a shortage.