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Yep, DDR5 prices have nearly doubled in less than 2 months. https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/#ram.ddr5.5200.2x16384 https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/

by zparky 1y ago

Yep, 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 1y ago
I 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 1y ago
  While 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 1y ago
    Ha, I was going to purchase a 96GB kit, but that's when I first noticed that RAM prices were getting crazy.
embedding-shape 1y ago
Are 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.
- threeducks 1y ago
  536 € seems expensive for March 2024, but either way, the price dropped a lot over the last one and a half years, only to surge in the last two months.
  - embedding-shape 1y ago
    > the price dropped a lot over the last one and a half years, only to surge in the last two months. Yeah, that was my hunch, that something like that was going on. Thanks for clarifying.
- Normal_gaussian 1y ago
  In the UK I was looking at DDR4-3200 SODIMM last week for some mini-pcs... and decided to pass after looking at the price graphs. It's spiked in the last few weeks.
  - embedding-shape 1y ago
    What graph you used for UK-specific prices as it seems the earlier graphs referenced here are US-only?
    - Normal_gaussian 11mo ago
      camelcamelcamel is the best for amazon items - choose a stick, look at the graph. There is a bit of annoyance as items come in and out of stock (ie. out of stock often means inaccurate price); so its often better to find a product on amazon and look here. 8GB SODIMM stick https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/product/B0C7Z4HJ8L?context=search https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/product/B0C7Z4HJ8L?context=se... regular 2x16GB pair https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/product/B07RW6Z692?context=search&cpf=amazon-new-used https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/product/B07RW6Z692?context=se... I have a script watching on some items on overclockers and crucial, including RAM. So for those by graph I really meant "eyeballed an email search".
  - coffeebeqn 1y ago

by zparky 1y ago

Yep, 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 1y ago

I 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 1y ago
While 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 1y ago
  Ha, I was going to purchase a 96GB kit, but that's when I first noticed that RAM prices were getting crazy.

embedding-shape 1y ago

Are 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.

threeducks 1y ago
536 € seems expensive for March 2024, but either way, the price dropped a lot over the last one and a half years, only to surge in the last two months.
- embedding-shape 1y ago
  > the price dropped a lot over the last one and a half years, only to surge in the last two months. Yeah, that was my hunch, that something like that was going on. Thanks for clarifying.
Normal_gaussian 1y ago
In the UK I was looking at DDR4-3200 SODIMM last week for some mini-pcs... and decided to pass after looking at the price graphs. It's spiked in the last few weeks.
- embedding-shape 1y ago
  What graph you used for UK-specific prices as it seems the earlier graphs referenced here are US-only?
  - Normal_gaussian 11mo ago
    camelcamelcamel is the best for amazon items - choose a stick, look at the graph. There is a bit of annoyance as items come in and out of stock (ie. out of stock often means inaccurate price); so its often better to find a product on amazon and look here. 8GB SODIMM stick https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/product/B0C7Z4HJ8L?context=search https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/product/B0C7Z4HJ8L?context=se... regular 2x16GB pair https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/product/B07RW6Z692?context=search&cpf=amazon-new-used https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/product/B07RW6Z692?context=se... I have a script watching on some items on overclockers and crucial, including RAM. So for those by graph I really meant "eyeballed an email search".
- coffeebeqn 1y ago