I'd been reading about the surge in prices for computer RAM, but only paying partial attention
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I'd been reading about the surge in prices for computer RAM, but only paying partial attention
but *wow* the increases are huge!
last july 2025 I built a new PC for myself, with 32 gigs of RAM from Microcenter -- the RAM was $83.22
i just googled the precise SKU info from my receipt, and the same RAM configuration is now $379
that's an increase of over 4X in 9-10 months
@clive Just the most ridiculous timeline.
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yeah, I have some old RAM in a mini PC I bought back in 2020 -- it's still sitting under my desk
the motherboard died, but now I'm wondering what the RAM is worth lol
either way, not throwing it out!
@clive Thar's gold in that there RAM!
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I'd been reading about the surge in prices for computer RAM, but only paying partial attention
but *wow* the increases are huge!
last july 2025 I built a new PC for myself, with 32 gigs of RAM from Microcenter -- the RAM was $83.22
i just googled the precise SKU info from my receipt, and the same RAM configuration is now $379
that's an increase of over 4X in 9-10 months
@clive I built myself a computer with 128 GB RAM back in 2020 and I'm pretty sure I paid less than this *for the entire machine*
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I'd been reading about the surge in prices for computer RAM, but only paying partial attention
but *wow* the increases are huge!
last july 2025 I built a new PC for myself, with 32 gigs of RAM from Microcenter -- the RAM was $83.22
i just googled the precise SKU info from my receipt, and the same RAM configuration is now $379
that's an increase of over 4X in 9-10 months
@clive Actually 7-8 months, as the prices were flat until October 2025, when OpenAI announced thier attempt to corner the market on RAM wafers.
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I'd been reading about the surge in prices for computer RAM, but only paying partial attention
but *wow* the increases are huge!
last july 2025 I built a new PC for myself, with 32 gigs of RAM from Microcenter -- the RAM was $83.22
i just googled the precise SKU info from my receipt, and the same RAM configuration is now $379
that's an increase of over 4X in 9-10 months
@clive Best I can tell, the largest and most powerful companies have locked in much more reasonable pricing. We are scrambling for scraps.
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I'd been reading about the surge in prices for computer RAM, but only paying partial attention
but *wow* the increases are huge!
last july 2025 I built a new PC for myself, with 32 gigs of RAM from Microcenter -- the RAM was $83.22
i just googled the precise SKU info from my receipt, and the same RAM configuration is now $379
that's an increase of over 4X in 9-10 months
@clive Just ask ChatGPT to download some more RAM for you. /s
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I'd been reading about the surge in prices for computer RAM, but only paying partial attention
but *wow* the increases are huge!
last july 2025 I built a new PC for myself, with 32 gigs of RAM from Microcenter -- the RAM was $83.22
i just googled the precise SKU info from my receipt, and the same RAM configuration is now $379
that's an increase of over 4X in 9-10 months
@clive I have recently been stockpiling RAM, SSDs and any other hardware I can salvage from computer designated for recycling at the institution I work at.
The prices of laptops for faculty and student laptop fleets have already been noticeably increasing, and the problem is only made worse by the fact that a large portion of computers in labs and laptop fleets are unable to operate on Windows 11 due to their lack of a TPM chip, despite being otherwise perfectly good machines.
I'm hopeful that my collection of salvaged components will enable us to keep some of our machines running longer, but I doubt this problem will get better anytime soon. -
I'd been reading about the surge in prices for computer RAM, but only paying partial attention
but *wow* the increases are huge!
last july 2025 I built a new PC for myself, with 32 gigs of RAM from Microcenter -- the RAM was $83.22
i just googled the precise SKU info from my receipt, and the same RAM configuration is now $379
that's an increase of over 4X in 9-10 months
@clive We've been seeing server RAM prices be even worse.
Currently, our HPe prices are ~$5250 for 1 @ 64 Gb DDR5, and ~$12850 for 1 @ 128 Gb DDR5. We normally do 16 @ 64 Gb sticks, that's $84000 just for the RAM.
It's untenable. I have no idea how we're going to be migrating our datacenters in the next couple years.
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I'd been reading about the surge in prices for computer RAM, but only paying partial attention
but *wow* the increases are huge!
last july 2025 I built a new PC for myself, with 32 gigs of RAM from Microcenter -- the RAM was $83.22
i just googled the precise SKU info from my receipt, and the same RAM configuration is now $379
that's an increase of over 4X in 9-10 months
@clive I just a laptop for a personal project that would have been around $600 a year ago. It was $1000 now. I figured if I didn't jump at this price, it would been completely outside my price range in another six months.
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I'd been reading about the surge in prices for computer RAM, but only paying partial attention
but *wow* the increases are huge!
last july 2025 I built a new PC for myself, with 32 gigs of RAM from Microcenter -- the RAM was $83.22
i just googled the precise SKU info from my receipt, and the same RAM configuration is now $379
that's an increase of over 4X in 9-10 months
@clive Clive not just for RAM. The prices for SSD's have gone up the same way. Obviously the same problem.
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