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Desktop memory has also increased in price. I think it’s twice as expensive for DDR5 than it was 6 months ago.
by vondur 11mo ago
Desktop memory has also increased in price. I think it’s twice as expensive for DDR5 than it was 6 months ago.
- piva00 11mo agoI've just built a gaming PC (after more than a decade without one), for curiosity's sake I just compared the prices I paid for DDR5 2 months ago to now, and at my location it already shows a 25-30% increase. Bonkers...
- pton_xd 11mo agoSame, just checked and the "G.SKILL Trident Z5 Neo Series 64GB (2 x 32GB)" RAM I bought 9 months ago for $208 is now $464. That's crazy!
- formerly_proven 11mo agoFeast and famine industry, it’s very traditional
- brianshaler 11mo agoI think that's nearly exactly what I paid for 2x32GB at a retail store last week. I hadn't bought RAM in over a decade so I didn't think anything of it. Wish my emergency PC replacement had occurred a year earlier!
- distances 11mo agoI got 96GB in June with a desktop upgrade, good timing and should be enough for a good while.
- big-and-small 11mo agoIt's very noticeable: https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/ https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/
- zparky 11mo agoYep, DDR5 prices have nearly doubled in less than 2 months. https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/#ram.ddr5.5200.2x16384 https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/#ram.ddr5.5200....
- vondur 11mo agoI was able to get a bundle deal from Microcenter here in SoCal with the Ryzen 9950x, motherboard and 32GB of RAM for $699. They have since removed the RAM from all the bundles.
- StillBored 11mo agoWhile thats a sweet upgrade for people with an older desktop that can support a motherboard swap, its worthwhile to point out the ram is probably insufficient. RAM usage for a lot of workloads scales with core/thread count, and my general rule of thumb is that 1G/thread is not enough, and 2G/thread will mostly work, and 4G/thread is probably too much, but your disk cache will be happy. Also, the same applies to VMs, so if your hosting a VM and give it 16 threads, you probably want at least 16G for the VM. The 4G/thread then starts to look pretty reasonable. Just building a lot of opensource projects with `make -j32` your going to be swapping if you only have 1G/thread. This rule then becomes super noticeable when your on a machine with 512G of ram, and 300+ threads, because your builds will OOM.
- vondur 11mo agoHa, I was going to purchase a 96GB kit, but that's when I first noticed that RAM prices were getting crazy.
- embedding-shape 11mo agoAre those graphs specifically for the US? When I change the country in the top right, it doesn't seem like the graphs are changing, and considering they're in USD, I'm assuming it's US-only? Is the same doubling happening world-wide or is this US-specific, I guess is my question? Edit: one data point, I last bought 128GB of RAM in March 2024 for ~€536, similar ones right now costs ~€500, but maybe the time range is too long.
- epistasis 11mo agoEven used memory has doubled in price. I was thinking of putting together a high-memory box for a side project, and reddit posts from a year ago all have memory at 1/2 to 1/3 of current ebay prices for the same part.