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At those prices I will just remember things myself, thank you.
Meat ram making a comeback.
Yeah, pencil and paper is back!
I needed a 32gb kit of ddr4 about 18 months ago… $80
I needed a 32gb kit of ddr4 last week, $160!!! Wtf! Okay… Let’s click order and if it drops I can just return it…
Checked this morning, $225!!!
Holy fuck!
Bought a 2tb SSD last week, $199. Checked prices this morning… $225
If you still need some DDR4, I can sell you my old set of 64 GB G. Skill RAM. I swapped it out for Corsair just so the RGB would match my other stuff. I’m not looking for a huge profit.
Edit. I read that wrong. Looks like you ordered some last week.
Man I’m so tired of these skyrocketing prices over everything. Memory, GPUs, car parts, groceries, insurance… fuck. Eating us alive.
A PS5 currently costs less than £300. I can’t even get 32GB of RAM for that, let alone a GPU or any of the other parts.
PC gaming is dead for now. The only affordable way is Steam Decks and similar.
People are panicking but market will correct itself. RAM is basically a solved technology and supply is limited by lack of factories not ability to manufacture.
Fabs take like 5 years to spin up. No one is going to set up another without some kind of guarantee
On the other hand, we’re currently in the midst of what many people already consider to be an AI bubble, so investing in new DRAM factories might be considered too risky, since the bubble might have popped before it even gets production going.
Good point tho if the bubble does end up popping it’ll bring down ram price as the market will be flooded with hardware from closed/reduced farms. But I guess we’ll have bigger issues preventing us enjoying the discounts lol
Pop goes the bubble
Can’t really remember the last time it wasn’t a horrible time to build a PC.
Pre-COVID, when the Ethereum mining went crazy… so around the time of the RTX 2000 series? Which honestly was pretty lacklustre compared to the GTX 1000 series…
So yeah, it’s been a while!
That’s when I build my current machine. Looks like upgrading is off the menu. Again.
Honestly, if you don’t mind gaming at 1080p, and keeping graphical settings reasonable in order to maintain a playable frame rate - you could be OK for a couple more years.
Otherwise if the upgrade itch just becomes too much, the Steam Machine could very well be a suitable entry point - provided that RAM model prices don’t continue to skyrocket.
I truly cannot wait for the day that the current AI bubble bursts.
1080 will look a bit small on my screen, but if that’s what I have to put up with…
last time I built one was in 2012. That was a golden age for PC builds
man I’m glad I got my 96gigs last year. fuck this mess.
I’ll hold out until the bubble pops and pick it all up for pennies.
The return of PlayStation clusters?
RIP GabeCube 😢
I am in the final stages of building two PCs for relatives of mine, and I don’t think I did so an hour too soon. I watched RAM double in price the day after I bought it.
In moments like this I always wonder if I should temporarily make my PC unusable by reselling the component that’s overpriced.
Then wait out the shortage and buy 4x as much RAM then x)
Almost did it with my GPU during covid.
If you’re in the USA I would wait until the dickhead in charge is gone or else you might wake up to find he told Taiwan to eat his ass and charge 600% tariffs on all goods coming from them.
I mean its a joke, but how unlikely would it be really?
I’m in Europe, so if anything that would benefit us x)
I was literally looking prices to upgrade from 32 to 64GB last month. And i was, nah 120€ is too much, I’m ok for now. 320€ today and still climbing…
I talked myself out of upgrading to 64gb six months ago when I still could have grabbed 32gb of ddr4 for like $80… Kicking myself over that decision
I’m glad I opted to start at 64GB ram on the PC I built about a year ago. Compared to the other parts like CPU and GPU, it felt relatively cheap to bump it up from 32GB.
Wondering if I should pull the trigger on more storage though… Don’t really need it right now but eventually I’ll probably need some.
If you don’t have immediate needs, I’d wait.
The AI payments will dry up and factories won’t know where to put it.Ah too late lol, ended up grabbing a 990 pro 2tb for $200 CAD. Looking around online, there seems to be a bunch of retailers at that price, though mostly the brick and mortar ones. I kinda thought they might be slower to react to quickly moving prices than the more specialist places (I got it from Staples).
The price sounds almoat reasonable to me.
Afaik it hovers around that price anyway the last time I looked at it.
Did my upgrade back in April. Got 64GB for $240. Now I checked the price on the same kit… $700. Just crazy.
Whelp guess I’m not upgrading my PC to ddr5 anytime soon 😂
