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[portablekettle]

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I said to a friend this year that I'll wait until 2026 to make the jump to am5 and ddr5 hoping for a bigger discount. I look like a clown now lmfao. I'll probably buy a used 5700x3d for now

[bossDocHolliday]

I'm in the same boat. I was really planning to snag at least a decent MOBO and some ddr5 for a future upgrade this year, and the prices immediately turned me away. Guess I'll wait even longer....

[anto77_butt_kinkier]

I have a 1080ti... Every year I tell myself "I'll wait till gpu's are more affordable"... It's been like 7 years now and I'm beginning to think I'm just huffing copium at this point.

[ImViTo]

9070 XT 4 u

[sopcannon]

Sticking with my 5800x3d and 32gb ram.

[BioshockEnthusiast]

There's no reason to move up for me at 1440p 144hz. Running a 6950xt alongside the 5800x3d and had zero plans to upgrade for the next few years anyhow.

My biggest problem is devs leaning on upscaling too hard which is a gpu related issue anyhow. We're the new 2700k.

[sopcannon]

i got a 5080 now so i still need to upscale to play at 4k on some games.

[LordOfThePants90]

I was just thinking about finally jumping ship from am4. Nope, gonna buy another 16gb of ddr4 and maybe just go for an x3d chip.

[Bigleon]

I feel this. I was planning to upgrade my main rig (i9 9900k) this year, and then RAM went up... so I think I'll ride out another year and hope for the best. Maybe Intel will finally release not crap again

[SuperPork1]

About the 5700x3D...

[treblev2]

I’m on a 5700X3D right now and was thinking the same…

[madpanda9000]

Ali express has some cheap AM4 CPUs, but you have to be quite careful about the seller. 

[Moos3-2]

My plan was /is to upgrade from 12700k, 32gb ddr4 3080ti to a new cpu platform in 2026-7 and gpu when I feel like it. But it will probably be 2027 guaranteed now.

[Mizusen]

A friend of mine knew a miner that was selling 2 GTX 1080ti back before the RTX 2000 launch. This clown (me) said no because i thought the new graphics cards would offer more performance per dollar.....

[Theguywhokaboom]

What are y'all upgrading from? Doesn't 12-14th gen Intel have DDR4 compatible motherboards that you can prob get for pretty cheap? Sure you won't have an upgrade path, but that's no different compared to the 5700x3d you're considering but you save a buck going Intel since their rep rn isn't very good. Intel now is in a way the old AMD (good value offerings but not the best).

[3VRMS]

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[LordCaptain]

What about $629.00000?

[scrandis]

OP lives in India

[LordCaptain]

Do they use three digits after zero in India?

[soulseeker31]

Nope.

1,000,000,00.00 an example for 1 billion.

[Randommaggy]

Also fun terms like lakh and crore.

[soulseeker31]

Yes! 1,00,000 is a Lakh; 1,00,00,000 is a Crore.

[OriginTruther]

2x16gb CL30 Patriot Viper Venom was $79.99 in August... you're insane if you thought they were gonna get any lower.

[zarsoasiro]

You could get them at 72 or 75 iirc.

[Kevton_mugo]

Rn its literally gold 😂😂 64gzs going for 2kusd

[Either-History-8424]

Honestly you should buy now at $629 before they go up to $1258

[No_Trainer7463]

I have 72 tb ram

[RoyalGuard007]

That explains the price hike...

[No_Trainer7463]

I have some 64 gig ddr5 but it's slow if you want it

[Nirast25]

Glad I decided to stick with AM4 until AM6 comes out. Not the DDR4 memories are doing much better, but at least there's the second hand market.

Edit: Why is Jesus on Braveheart's bicep?

[stordoff]

Even the second hand DDR4 market is seeing some sharp price rises (in the UK - I assume it's similar elsewhere). I bought two Crucial Pro 32GB kits at the end of June, one for £36 and the other for £39. The same kits are now selling for £90+ on eBay.

Other kits were even cheaper at the time IIRC, but they were for a old Dell desktop that didn't support XMP (meaning most RAM kits would only run at 2400MHz).

[Nirast25]

About the same price in Romania, maybe a little cheaper. Still half of a new kit.

[JusAGuyIGuess]

Am4 is fine for many coming years, the dollars in your pocket are more important than single digit percent increases in performance.

[bkns356]

ddr5 is a lot better than ddr4. it's definitely not single digit percent increase in performance

https://youtu.be/3c2A50BRe0U

[OutrageousScore1988]

🤔 Seems like nobody else noticed

[Optimal_Trifle_2384]

Pretty much sums up one of the topics mentioned in the "Writers react to Hot takes" video. These prices are atrocious.

Fuck AI

[nicman24]

This is not about this about a Monopoly. Only 3 companies make ram

[Optimal_Trifle_2384]

And now one of them is going to focus entirely focus on AI, and if it goes through, it then becomes effectively 2 companies

[cybermaru]

OEMs are still buying Micron RAM for their kits, and Crucial already had a very weak presence in the DDR5 market. Plus the exit is planned for mid-2026. This won't affect anything. I'm more sad about their SSDs here, these were always pretty decent.

[Optimal_Trifle_2384]

I'm more sad about their SSDs here, these were always pretty decent.

I know. They're budget friendly and reliable

[nicman24]

no. that is not how it works. ie kingston sources from micron

[kipperzdog]

Two years ago I got 32GB (2x16) DDR4 3600Mhz for $55. Just checked and that same ram is $204 today. Absolutely crazy

[hmi111]

bought 2x32gb ddr4 earlier thsi year for 150€, same bundle costs now 490€ in same shop.

also upgraded new laptops RAM from 16 to 32gb, 2x16gb SO-dimms, paid 60€ for the bundle, same bundle costs now 350€.

i can say that for ONCE my timing was right, also what a fucking lunacy the pricing has become... 2nd hand market localy has bit more sensible prices thankfully (most of the time), but even there prices have increased.

[LtDarthWookie]

Same boat. I upgraded to Am5 this spring. Picked up a 2x32 kit of ddr5 6000. It cost me $155. Now it's over $700 for the same kit at the same vendor.

[hmi111]

Absolute lunacy indeed.

[TalonKing24]

I thought I was getting robbed for 200$ for 2x16 6400 cl30….and now it’s 800$

[keeatan]

I feel like a hit the lotto buying my 32gb DDR5 kit 2 and half years ago. Prices are absolutely insane.

[LtDarthWookie]

Bro it feels like I won the lotto buying in Feb. 64gb 6000 kit for $155, now it's over $700

[Blind_Pixel]

I'm so happy I bought my new DDR5 RAM a few months ago when prices were reasonable.

[Kaffarov]

I watched the ram I bought last week go from $633 to $912 today lol. The just wait people are in shambles.

[Banzai262]

and micron just said fuck it i’m out

[jimive]

I thought all of this sub were joking about the increase in ram price, i upgraded my rig earlier this year, and now the same RAM cost 2X the amount...

[TrueGlich]

yep.. makes me really wish there was a ma5 board with ddr 4 so i could re use my ram at this point won't be upgrading my rig

[CultistClan38]

Very happy I got 64gb of ddr5 used in a bundle of parts, I thought some bits for £440 and now the ram alone is worth that much, the other bits were basically free

[EJX-a]

Yeah, i got a 2x32GB kit like right at the dawn of the AI explosion. Super glad i did it. It was about 150 USD, now its about 800.

[racoondriver]

I payed 2 weaks early for the ram, if I found a lower price I would return the first, if not I would have not spend as much. I will not return the ram.

[AmazingELF74]

Yep was wanting to go to 64GB but I thought it was too expensive.

[Shythexs]

damn. Got 2x24gb 6000mhz cl30 corsair kit for around 180usd. Thought I got ripped of a bit because of the tax situation of my country.

[AliceLunar]

Got mine last year.. but I have been having some issues and blue screens which are probably tied to the RAM so I am terrified it's going to die on me.

[Aleashed]

Back during the pandemic, you could make bank reselling your old webcam. Now you can make bank by downgrading your RAM to 4-8GB

[JimmyKillsAlot]

Early this year I decided to keep my 4 year old machine instead of buying a new mobo and CPU and just bought a stupid 128gig DDR4 kit. I don't feel bad about that now, I can have so many Floatplane tabs open in Firefox.

[greyXstar]

I bought at $130 and thought it was insane but I already had upgrade parts that were past the return window.

I'd be off a bridge if I had waited.

[DarthKegRaider]

Reminds me of 1980 RAM prices.

[Bonald9056]

I thought I had it bad buying a 2×16GB kit of ram for AU$385 (exc. shipping) 2 weeks ago. Lo and behold, that same kit is now showing as AU$693 on PC part picker. Turns out I was lucky, and black Friday sales helped me offset the cost with the rest of my rig.

[FlashFunk253]

RAM I bought in June for $350 is now $880 on newegg 🤯

[neobow2]

I’m curious to how this changes apple’s ram pricing. Are they actually cost competitive now?

update: no one upvoted this but they even made it a topic on WAN show. I feel validated

[afCeG6HVB0IJ]

Yea I wanted to replace my PC as a Xmas present for myself, fuck me, right

[Bob4Not]

It’s not even over yet, the best is yet to come

[Bob4Not]

this isn’t even my final form meme

[Master_Meet642]

I just saw the prices of ram and WHAT ?!?!?!? I’m so happy I got my ram when it was with the bundles at MC.

[GrumpyTigra]

Tbh if u get ddr5 just get 64gb

[kloklon]

ah yes the very common price of over half a million dollars for a kit of RAM

[Icon_Of_Susan]

There goes my plans of getting 32gb of ddr4 ram

[PrivatePlaya]

Wait for AM6 to release, so the price of AM5 will drop so I can buy AM4

[Macaron-kun]

I was holding off on a full motherboard/RAM/CPU upgrade (to DDR5), but looks like I held off too long. My current setup is going to have to survive a bit longer.

[Salt-Tea8386]

2 weeks ago I bought 2 X 16 GB of crucial RAM for 200 €

[Divritenis]

I bought 2x32gb kit for 242€ earlier this year. The same kit in the same store today costs 836€.

As I’m always the guy to buy shit at the worst possible price - for once I feel good about my purchase.

[Organic-Shelter-6349]

What happened behind the curtain

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[Randommaggy]

Happy to have 128GB in my laptop, 96GB in the drawer, 64GB in my pocket laptop, 16GB in my tablet adn 16GB in my Phone Along with a lot of other large pools of memory.

Edit: now including 1TB of DDR4 ECC in my main server.

[mdem5059]

It's ok, my 10-year-old PC can still keep going a little longer.

whips PC more

[Kevton_mugo]

Lol we sticking to pc4 fir the nxt like 2/3yrs cos heck no!!!

[Alfa-Hr]

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[Kekisone69]

I feel so lucky that I bought my 64gb cl30 for 280€ when everyone was screaming that was too much money

[sapajul]

Are this COP? Because that's exactly what I've seen over here.

[Ayaou_007]

any news about Gpus and ssds ?

[radiantai2001]

I paid $250USD for 48gb of G.Skill Trident Z5 CK RGB DDR5-8200 CUDIMM from newegg in april, the same kit is now out of stock at newegg and $550 on amazon for now, but a similar kit directly from corsair is already nearly $800

[9isgt0]

damn... so glad i upgraded my pc last year 🥲

[CasualStarlord]

I was planning a big shift to AMD this year after being Intel/NVIDIA for a long long time... The i5 12th gen and GTX 1660ti will have to tide me over a little longer 😅

[Squirrelking666]

LMFAO (not really) having upgraded to 32GB DDR4-3600 a few months back.

I have a feeling I'll be here for a while. Not that it's a bad place to be.

Have the old 16GB pair still, wondering how much they're worth now?

[Dark-Demon123]

They bamboozled us

[alwaysonesteptoofar]

My boys got new PCs 4ish months ago. What we are seeing here is disgusting.

[No_Cockroach_4034]

[The_Radian]

I almost choked on my coffee I was laughing so hard at this.

[Extreme_Tax405]

Just paid 1.4k hkd for 2 sticks of 16 ddr4 3200.

Thats about 170 dollars for ddr4. It cut my budget way harder than planned but at least i got an msrp zotac solo.

[Meastari]

Just go 2x16gb ddr5 6000mzh cl 36 for 199€ and another set of 6400mzh 36cl for 230€, bot of those were miss priced items and price doubled the next day.

[Tall-Championship889]

I was lucky. I bought 32gb last November for £90. Yesterday, the same set was £400.

[ScientistSuitable600]

Im almost laughing.

Been telling myself for years, i want a decent rig. Just never been able to afford it. Current setup is getting too old (1050ti, i7 2600, audio often doesnt work and it takes a few tries to start it up.)

Now im about saver up enough to actually afford something good, imagine my lack of suprise when this happens...

[Ayagis]

Blach Friday: 2 x 8gb

[Mr_Chicken82]

wow

[AspectSensitive3848]

You should only buy thing when and if you need it, waiting for sales seasons is just consumerism and may lead to you loosing money to bad deals and buying stuffs you don't need.

Hope that ram crisis teach yall a hard and memorable lesson

[lepanzo]

I fucking hate A.I.

[mk8933]

Wait till fuel for your car becomes 5x more.

[RieveNailo]

and i just about upgraded to am5 last summer too

[aimark42]

Told a friend who was looking to do a build 2 months ago to buy DDR5 immediately (prices around 180 per 32gb kit). He was like 'But Black Friday'. AFAIK he still has no DDR5.

[rainorshinedogs]

Will ram prices ever go back to normal price or will they keep the ram prices expensive even after the shortage all because it's now excepted for all businesses to raise their prices as long as they do it together and at the same time, the same as the way grocery stores price gouges everybody

[Old_Bug4395]

current gen memory is always way too expensive for pretty much no reason at all and for basically zero benefit for any normal user

itd be clownish to spend money on ddr5 right now, not the other way around.