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RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders (arstechnica.com)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I went to a pc building shop and the price of 64 RAM DDR5 was over $1000. I could have built an entire PC with that price a year ago.

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[–] fum@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How about just don't buy a PC for now? I'm sure the machine you've got in good enough. Just hang on to it until the prices come back down

[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

My old i7 4790k with DDR3 can run for a little longer.....

[–] tea@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, it sucks though. It feels like building a PC has been inadvisable more often than not. Thanks to the GPU prices being ridiculous a while back. Now this. It's crazy that you have to time building a PC between these stupid waves.

[–] fum@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

True! It is frustrating. I fear the days of custom PC builds are coming to an end.

Even before this recent price hike it was a lot more expensive than it used to be.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 12 points 2 days ago

How much RAM does a time machine require because that seems to be the basic advice here.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Best advice is grab an AM4 motherboard and go for DD4 ram. You wont notice a difference in performance for majority of games. DDR4 ram and AM4 cpu's are cheap.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago

So happy I bought a m.2 for my laptop right before this insanity. Wonder if spinning plates are coming back to the menu?

[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Dont wait too long, retailers are catching on and increasing prices.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

2nd hand its still cheap

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Way too late

[–] picnic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

No. Ddr4 ram prices have been tripling this year.

I needed ddr4 ecc, but couldnt justify paying 3x the price that I paid last year.

Also wanted to buy ddr4 sodimm for my wife's laptop, you guessed it, 3x the price.

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[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Clearly the best advice is "Build your PC a year ago"

[–] renrenPDX@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not even. More like 3 months ago.

The pair of 2x16 DDR5 6000 TEAMGROUP I bought back in April was $90 from Amazon. According to pcpartpicker, pricing started trending upwards late September, which Newegg still had it at $89 (9/30/25; B&H @ $109). The same pair at B&H is currently $439 (12/21/25) and MemoryC is asking $596. It's insane.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ya but video cards have been insane since covid too

[–] jupiter_jazz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago

Even before covid, when crypto was the big thing

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Get Into books.

[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Lots of indie and medium size studio games thst run great on hardware from 5 and 10 years ago. AAA gaming is a AAA scam at thr moment. The really quality is in developer owned games.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I guess my ageing i5-8400, 16GB, GTX 1060 rig can keep hobbling along a while yet.

Although I was amused to see my Legion Go S actually has a more powerful CPU now.

[–] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Did some server maintenance yesterday, including driver updates. Broke my system since it updated my Nvidia driver to 590.x which no longer supports our little 1060s. Had to roll back the driver, thankfully easy. Suppose I better start keeping an eye out for some sort of upgrade...

[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Amd 9070xt and 9060xt options are probably the best you are going to get for the next 2 years.

Dont buy Nvidia again. They just end of lifed the 10th most popular GPU used with Steam.

[–] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Nah, it's not doing a lot of heavy lifting on my server, it'll be good for years to come most likely

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

One of the commenters said:

"avoid building a PC right now" is advice I've been following since 2017

And honestly yeah. I guess at this point if you can afford it, just pull the plug whenever, it's always some bullshit going on the PC Market anyway.

[–] Xenny@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I built my PC in 2019 right at the end of the year and I thank the gods everyday. I've only done one CPU upgrade since and it's still great for 1440p gaming. The whole tower minus monitor and what not was probably like $900 at the time

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[–] anon5621@lemmy.ml 121 points 3 days ago (7 children)

The best we can do is just wait when price will fall down after ai bubble will explode

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 69 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Probably but with all the idiots fueled by sunken costs and desperate to prove they were right to invest, it could still last a long time.

I built a decent PC a couple years ago, and I don't need to upgrade often since I don't really care about cutting edge. So I kinda dodged a bullet, but, this sucks.

[–] errer@lemmy.world 40 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Honestly the incentive to “upgrade” a gaming PC the past decade is really weak. Aside from a few AAA titles almost all games run just fine on old hardware. Particularly if you ditch Windows.

So let’s just all refuse to buy this overpriced shit. The same price increases have already happened to GPUs and gamers felt like they “needed” to pay those prices still, nah fuck that, don’t give these greedy pigs a dime.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 27 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I'm worried that they're trying to price us into not owning our machines anymore. You will own nothing and rent from us strategy.

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[–] shirro@aussie.zone 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Don't consume any AI products. Don't consume any products made or marketed with AI products. Don't support any companies than invest in AI or are invested in because of AI. Lets kill this nonsense in 2026 and bring computing, jobs and wealth back into the hands of ordinary people. And a prememptive - NO BAILOUT for the tech bros when this shit crashes.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

AI is mainly being aimed at B2B

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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Looks like I'm going to be stuck in 2023 for a long long time...

[–] sefra1@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago

This, but 2015

[–] Shyanae@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago (4 children)

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

64GB of DDR3 RAM in a system of that era is straight nuts!

[–] Shyanae@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I got a good deal where it was cheaper than the 32gb I intended to have :D It's DDR4 btw. So it might be worth the whole system soon (1000k for the whole computer in 2017)

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 days ago (3 children)

IMO, the pricing is an extortion scam rather than a real shortage. People are falling for it because of AI hype narrative. Best to wait it out.

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[–] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just built a PC with 64GB Ram Corsair Vengeance 2 months ago. Paid 250€, quite expensive IMO (was used to more like 50€ ten years ago). But who pays 1000€???

[–] bernhoftbret@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

There are those who are willing to pay 400% increases in price for the goods.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

DDR6 will be about to release by the time RAM prices return to normal..

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