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This is the PCPartPicker chart that I monitor: https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/#ram.ddr5.5600.2x32768 https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/

This is the PCPartPicker chart that I monitor: https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/#ram.ddr5.5600.2x32768 https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/#ram.ddr5.5600.... - $900 for 2x32GB, used to be $200 a year ago.

fullstop 4mo ago
I regret not building the PC when I was looking at it. It's not a money thing, at the end of the day, but I can't bring myself to do it. I had it all priced out, but a bunch of birthdays in my family were coming up and I felt like I shouldn't buy something for myself if it's really their time. My old laptop will have to cut it for a while. :-)
- chrismorgan 4mo ago
  Similar situation—just as I was about to buy, an emergency occurred, and when I came back two months later my ₹1,00,000 build was ₹1,20,000, and I felt I couldn’t quite justify it any more. And after all, my laptop had stabilised and no longer seemed to be dying like it had been a year earlier. Well, now my build would be ₹1,75,000 and feeling even less justified.
- ajam1507 4mo ago
  Pre-built PCs are the way to get a deal right now. The price of individual components is much more expensive than buying something from Micro Center or one of the Chinese integrators.
snkline 4mo ago
The memory in the PC I put together early last year is now worth about three times the total cost of all the parts I used to build the thing. It is absolutely crazy.
- expedition32 4mo ago
  You could get a 990pro 2 terabyte Samsung SSD for €150 just last year. Memory had become a commodity product.
  - nradov 4mo ago
    Memory is still a commodity product, in that there isn't a huge amount of difference between vendors selling products that comply with a certain technical standard. Sometimes the prices of commodities (wheat, silver, crude oil, etc) go way up when supply and demand get out of balance.
    - Phoenixhq 4mo ago
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  - serallak 4mo ago
    I did buy one of those for 155eur on 9 November 2025. Very lucky me!
- at-fates-hands 4mo ago
  I'm still flying under the radar with a Dell Precision T5820. 128GB of DDR4 and a Quadro P4000 graphics card (8gb). Handles everything I need it to do including photo/video editing, and some random FPS games without any issues. I was thinking of upgrading the video card to something better, but looking at the cost of replacing that Quadro? I might just stay put for now. Costs on those have also pretty much doubled.
- david422 4mo ago
  I put together a new PC last year and got some extra memory, because why not. Crazy how much that would cost me today.
ChiperSoft 4mo ago
Yesterday I did a price check on the PC I built two years ago. It went from $2300 to $3650. The bulk of that increase was that the ram went from $210 to $940. Its now more expensive than when DDR5 was new.
- christoph 4mo ago
  I bought a 5090 12 months ago, just checked - that’s basically up 50%! I used to joke i’d retire on all the old tech in my loft, everyday now it feels less like a joke!
- shepherdjerred 4mo ago
  Those are rookie numbers https://stocks.sjer.red/ https://stocks.sjer.red/
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  - zargon 4mo ago
    I thought I read that Samsung SATA SSDs were discontinued, but apparently that was a rumor and Sansung has denied it. I wonder why they exceed NVMe prices. They're the only SATA drives left with DRAM. I guess they could just be milking that fact.
  - tosti 4mo ago
    Well boo-hoo. It's about time more people got to know what it's like not to be on the bleeding edge. I've always had second-hand computers and only once bought myself a new laptop, the asus EeePC after the price dropped. Ten years from now I'll get to watch inception in 4K.
    - linker3000 4mo ago
      A few weeks ago I needed a computer to be a Debian server for some at-home simple Web dev / learning stuff. I bought an HP Prodesk 400 G3 SFF PC with i5-6500, 8GB RAM and a 256GB off a popular auction site for £44. It'll do. I might upgrade to 16GB. An additional 8GB stick costs £19.
KeplerBoy 4mo ago
At least it seems to not get worse.
turpentine 4mo ago
It shows 3.5" spinning rust are climbing this year too.
- leosanchez 4mo ago
  We are cooked tbh.
surcap526 4mo ago
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3uler 4mo ago
Makes the Framework Desktop look like a bargain.

fullstop 4mo ago

I regret not building the PC when I was looking at it. It's not a money thing, at the end of the day, but I can't bring myself to do it. I had it all priced out, but a bunch of birthdays in my family were coming up and I felt like I shouldn't buy something for myself if it's really their time. My old laptop will have to cut it for a while. :-)

chrismorgan 4mo ago
Similar situation—just as I was about to buy, an emergency occurred, and when I came back two months later my ₹1,00,000 build was ₹1,20,000, and I felt I couldn’t quite justify it any more. And after all, my laptop had stabilised and no longer seemed to be dying like it had been a year earlier. Well, now my build would be ₹1,75,000 and feeling even less justified.
ajam1507 4mo ago
Pre-built PCs are the way to get a deal right now. The price of individual components is much more expensive than buying something from Micro Center or one of the Chinese integrators.

snkline 4mo ago

The memory in the PC I put together early last year is now worth about three times the total cost of all the parts I used to build the thing. It is absolutely crazy.

expedition32 4mo ago
You could get a 990pro 2 terabyte Samsung SSD for €150 just last year. Memory had become a commodity product.
- nradov 4mo ago
  Memory is still a commodity product, in that there isn't a huge amount of difference between vendors selling products that comply with a certain technical standard. Sometimes the prices of commodities (wheat, silver, crude oil, etc) go way up when supply and demand get out of balance.
  - Phoenixhq 4mo ago
    [flagged]
- serallak 4mo ago
  I did buy one of those for 155eur on 9 November 2025. Very lucky me!
at-fates-hands 4mo ago
I'm still flying under the radar with a Dell Precision T5820. 128GB of DDR4 and a Quadro P4000 graphics card (8gb). Handles everything I need it to do including photo/video editing, and some random FPS games without any issues. I was thinking of upgrading the video card to something better, but looking at the cost of replacing that Quadro? I might just stay put for now. Costs on those have also pretty much doubled.
david422 4mo ago
I put together a new PC last year and got some extra memory, because why not. Crazy how much that would cost me today.

ChiperSoft 4mo ago

Yesterday I did a price check on the PC I built two years ago. It went from $2300 to $3650. The bulk of that increase was that the ram went from $210 to $940. Its now more expensive than when DDR5 was new.

christoph 4mo ago
I bought a 5090 12 months ago, just checked - that’s basically up 50%! I used to joke i’d retire on all the old tech in my loft, everyday now it feels less like a joke!
shepherdjerred 4mo ago
Those are rookie numbers https://stocks.sjer.red/ https://stocks.sjer.red/
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- zargon 4mo ago
  I thought I read that Samsung SATA SSDs were discontinued, but apparently that was a rumor and Sansung has denied it. I wonder why they exceed NVMe prices. They're the only SATA drives left with DRAM. I guess they could just be milking that fact.
- tosti 4mo ago
  Well boo-hoo. It's about time more people got to know what it's like not to be on the bleeding edge. I've always had second-hand computers and only once bought myself a new laptop, the asus EeePC after the price dropped. Ten years from now I'll get to watch inception in 4K.
  - linker3000 4mo ago
    A few weeks ago I needed a computer to be a Debian server for some at-home simple Web dev / learning stuff. I bought an HP Prodesk 400 G3 SFF PC with i5-6500, 8GB RAM and a 256GB off a popular auction site for £44. It'll do. I might upgrade to 16GB. An additional 8GB stick costs £19.

KeplerBoy 4mo ago

At least it seems to not get worse.

turpentine 4mo ago

It shows 3.5" spinning rust are climbing this year too.

leosanchez 4mo ago
We are cooked tbh.

surcap526 4mo ago

[dead]

3uler 4mo ago

Makes the Framework Desktop look like a bargain.