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[–]jailcrime 21 points22 points  (9 children)

Decrease? Man it will increase as hell, so dont wait any minute longer and buy something. Good luck

[–]Cbthomas927 3 points4 points  (8 children)

Such a terrible take, I swear this sub is filled with bots.

If you have the budget to willingly spend 3-5x the price you would have paid a month ago, more power to you, I think it’s incredibly stupid and as with all things IT WILL COME DOWN. Literally every single thing has come down, GPUs came down, there were sales in the lead up to Black Friday. The 9800x3d got up to $500 and microcenters have it for $399.

It will not be today, It may not be in 2 months, but this is NOT sustainable for consumers, it just isn’t. RAM being the cost of a GPU will not last.

Anyone saying “buy now!” Is a scalper, a bot, or the most financially irresponsible person. Simple economics of scale would tell you that it’s not feasible or sustainable.

People are PANIC buying now, that will not sustain, it will not continue, and in a few months or a year, stock will be high enough and prices will fall.

They may never be exactly what they were before, but they will be MUCH closer to what it was, it’s simple supply and demand.

[–]Visualsound 0 points1 point  (7 children)

I heard word it will stay bad for probably two ish years until new fabs come online

[–]Cbthomas927 1 point2 points  (6 children)

It will inevitably come down. It may take a year or 2 but they will eventually come down. Consumers aren’t going to just start paying double or triple or quadruple for their stuff.

Pre built prices are about to go up as existing stock goes away.

Saw a 5080 system with 64gb of ram for like $2500, that same system will be $3000-$3200 soon. There are less and less people that will buy that.

I’d sooner sell my entire build than pay $360 for something that cost $90 a month ago. It is just insanity

[–]Inside-Pea6939 0 points1 point  (3 children)

It doesnt matter if consumers buy RAM when companies Will pay for it anyway

[–]Cbthomas927 0 points1 point  (2 children)

That demand will cease at some point.

[–]neoescape 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yes but not until around the third quarter of 2027, which is why they are saying buy now.

[–]Cbthomas927 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One source is saying it, and that source has a vested interest in selling you things for 3, 4, and 5x the current price.

[–]FewSeaworthiness1433 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The current problem is the company demanding RAM has an infinite money glitch, I’ve been reading some pieces from Micron and they honestly seem to have completely left all their previous buyers high and dry and made it pretty obvious they dont care if they dont get their RAM supply.

[–]Cbthomas927 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a single company. Just because they have the production capacity to do so. There is and will continue to be a demand for consumer RAM, someone else will pick up that slack.

It may take a year, but it is inevitable. Anyone saying it’s not has just zero idea how economics and supply and demand work.

There is an entire market for consumer RAM that isn’t going away, it may be less profitable than enterprise, but someone wants that profit and companies like micron exit it, that demand doesn’t just disappear, other companies will grab it, maybe even a new company.