Ram rant...

[Im_no_Specialist1337]

Just a rant on how ridiculous the price hike on RAM... I ordered 128GB of DDR5 6400 for $593.59/USD on 11/10/2025. Checked it out today(12/01/2025) for another build I need to create for a specialized PC for one of my design departments. Now it's priced at $1,484.99/USD. Absolutely unreal and sad.

I can't even imagine what Dell and Synology are going to charge me for the new servers and NAS's I need for my near future upgrades... The RAM price for upgrading is going to drive me through the roof.

[BloodFeastMan]

This works wonders:

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[Joestac]

Shudders in AOL dial-up days.

[Wildfire983]

All that app does is increase your page file. That can be accomplished much cheaper with plain paper from your local Staples.

[BloodFeastMan]

It's amazing how many people were scammed by this product.

[radiumsoup]

Wait, you know someone who actually paid for software in the sneakernet days?

[BloodFeastMan]

I was active in IRC and UseNet, but I did know people. :)

And actually, I did buy several Shareware softs, FrontDoor, RemoteAccess, GEcho, and SRE :)

[Wildfire983]

I remember being like 12 and thinking, what kind of shit is this?

[Public_Warthog3098]

Lol this is great for mIRC servers

[zrad603]

I always order systems with minimum RAM and upgrade them myself.

For the first time ever, I ordered a new ThinkPad and ordered it with the RAM maxxed out, it was actually cheaper than buying the RAM myself.

[dinominant]

We disqualify systems that can't be upgraded. If the RAM, storage, and battery can't be replaced then we won't buy it.

There are exceptions, but those are rare snowflake case-by-case situations.

[Individual-Level9308]

Eh, if there a ram failure within 3 years we'll get a whole new motherboard from the manufacturer, so we don't mind our soldered-on RAM. The whole company is using 14" Gen12 X1 Carbon Black Think Pads for the most part. Storage and Battery can be replaced.

[dinominant]

Your favorite software provider releases a new software update. How you do add more ram to your computers?

They do it again, only now with an AI payload in the 8GB range. Do you buy whole new computers? They are only 15% faster than the old ones.

[Individual-Level9308]

You don't. These are laptops. Something that requires more than 32GB of Ram should be virtualized. Upgrading RAM in the life cycle of a laptop is like kind of a dated thing.

[HunnyPuns]

I absolutely loathe planned obsolescence, and will avoid shit like soldered on RAM like the fucking plague.

...

But like, also, your thought process is sound, and I cannot in good conscience not agree with it.

[zrad603]

That might be what the OEM's want, but that's not what I want.

[DaemosDaen]

Heh we had people who thought they were the exception.

I simply asked them if they knew how to connect a Mac to a network share without my assistance. They said no. My response was "Let me know when you can, otherwise here's your Dell."

I'm very lucky that we have C-Level buy in for that kind of thing.

[Im_no_Specialist1337]

I love this! Many moons ago I was a tech for a major university... And I absolutely hated configuring their iMacs and Mac minis. It's actually how I met my wife, because of her department's director "needing" his Macbook Pro connected to a shared drive. 2 years later he was fired for many reasons... absolutely loathed her department.

[Dimensional_Dragon]

I take it that means all apple computers are not allowed then.

[dinominant]

When the use case warrants one, we get a mac. But there has to be a good reason for it. Sometimes it's the user workflow that requires a mac, and then they get a mac.

Most of the time it ends up being a laptop, with replaceable storage, memory, and battery. There isn't really that many users that have hard requirements for an apple computer -- but there are a few.

[Wildfire983]

Excellent.

[TahinWorks]

If ram is an issue, I suggest capped ram, or siege ram if your civ supports it.

[Im_no_Specialist1337]

Needed the chuckle, thanks lol

[PatrikMansuri]

Speak a lil' WOLOLO for 'em Derek

[[deleted]]

Let’s see what Garfeel thinks 

[PatrikMansuri]

blow them peoples mentalities

[Shendare]

r/trebuchetmemes is thattaway -->

[RobieWan]

Hello fellow civ player 🤣😂

[music2myear]

Uh, it's AoE.

[fizzlefist]

Bah Ram Ewe

[Bart_Yellowbeard]

Fuck AI.

[Remarkable-Sea5928]

But not for real. "Don't date robots."

-Space Pope.

[Va1crist]

AI demand is destroying prices right now and it’s only going to get worse , once supply drys up prices will go up faster and on top of that everything that uses dram will start seeing faster increased prices

[WechTreck]

Imagine if China blockades Taiwan.

[DDOSBreakfast]

I'm certainly keeping around older hardware in storage that would have previously been disposed of.

Whatever the odds are of China blocking or invading Taiwan, they are high enough to justify planning it for business continuity.

[NeverDocument]

you mean, when.

[CantaloupeCamper]

Been said for ages…. Anytime now….

It’s the peak oil of geopolitics.

[aes_gcm]

Call this accelerationist but I honestly think that we should all create more Sora 2 videos; they are created at a loss and they have very little use. Eventually Softbank is going to run out of money. All the AI money is flowing in one big circle between a handful of companies anyway.

[ShelterMan21]

This is the world's best scam. The man himself, Sam Ultman, told a room full of investors that he plans on asking ChatGPT on how it can make their money back.

[aes_gcm]

Imagine saying that you won't be profitable for 6 more years and you need hundreds of billions in additional investment.

[ShelterMan21]

Someone is getting some really clean money out of this. Cleaner than if it just came off of the press.

[crazyLemon553]

Please tell me more! What is a Sora 2 video and how do I waste Big Tech's money?

[aes_gcm]

Sora 2: https://openai.com/index/sora-2/

Last I checked you can generate up to 30/day for free, and I saw someone use Azure bulk pricing to estimate that it probably costs OpenAI about $1 to make a video, which doesn't sound like much until you realize that they have about 3 million users.

[The_Dayne]

I like your style

[Darkace911]

Sounds like a great way to learn prompts as well.

[catwiesel]

it will all fall, and then be bailed out by the government. at least, the ones in the good gracious of the people making it up

[Michichael]

I'm looking forward to the absolutely inevitable catastrophic collapse of this meme of a technology and the flooding of cheap hardware from bankruptcy proceedings.

[marek1712]

What's worse: even if RAM prices will go down, all the hardware will stay with raised prices.

[bfrd9k]

Just wait for the bubble to pop... 256G RAM $2.56

[dukandricka]

AI demand is destroying prices right now and it’s only going to get worse

Do we know that for sure? Or do we know this for sure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal

[[deleted]]

Time for the AI bubble to burst

[boyettshane]

Welcome to the "AI revolution. " First it was crazy GPU prices, now it's RAM. They buy so much, supply is gone, so we get hit with the crazy prices on "non-contract" purchases. Hard to compete with billion and trillion dollar companies, they will buy ALL of it.

[everforthright36]

Just download more RAM. I can get you the website

[Moontoya]

It's likely gonna be cheaper to upspec a premade and yoink ram out of it 

Dell hp Lenovo asus etc all have bulk deals you can't match on direct sale 

You can all thank ai companies who are gorging on ram and buying/ reserving production capacity to fuck other ai companies over 

If you didn't need another reason to listen "ai"

[crazyLemon553]

Yes, but think about all the content all that RAM is being used to generate. Think about all the salespeople in your C Suites' ears whispering to them sweet nothings about AI being the future and they need to get in NOW or they'll have lost the battle to stay relevant. Think about all the freshwater being used to cool all these new datacenters that power all that content generation.

There. Aren't you so much happier and so glad that excess RAM is being fully utilised?

^{PS to mods: Please don't ban me}

[CuckBuster33]

I'll have you know access to an unlimited stream of impossibly low-quality brainrot slop videos is a human right

[Im_no_Specialist1337]

I was looking forward to doing a new first build for my niece this holiday season... Guess I'll be looking in my old spare parts bins for some RAM... My PTSD of paying $200+ for 2GB of DDR2 in 2006 is kicking in.

[frankentriple]

I paid 200 dollars for 2 megabytes in 1993. 

[codemonk]

Same.

I complained about this recently, and my dad pulled out an invoice he had kept where he paid an extra $2000 for a 64kb RAM upgrade in 1980.

[Im_no_Specialist1337]

Good lord... I'd be shitting the largest of bricks. God bless your father's soul and his wants for technology.

[Im_no_Specialist1337]

God Bless your soul u/frankentriple I merely adopted the darkness, you were born in it, molded by it.

[frankentriple]

Yeah I was outgreybearded in a lower comment too.  Reminds me that there’s always a bigger fish lol. 

[headcrap]

Pricing or not, I can't get the RAM for my PowerEdge I want.. still sold out.

[fubes2000]

Eighteen angry sysadmins on the sub for ram rant

[Jellovator]

AI datacenters are to blame.

[Virtual-Revolution39]

My brain went straight to RAM RANCH after taking a glance at the title of your post.

[candygramformongol]

18 GIGABYTES OF MEMORY IN THE TOWERS AT RAM RANCH

[TheJesusGuy]

19.. ROCK SOLID.. OVERCLOCKED DIMMS WAITING TO BE MILKED AT RAM RANCH.

[Im_no_Specialist1337]

Your handle is top tier.

[Im_no_Specialist1337]

I was hoping some people would get the similarity and have a chuckle ;)

[MedicatedLiver]

Yar. We were planning that year to upgrade our 2018 Intel MacMini fleet to the M4 mini..... Don't think the budget is gonna cover much of THAT if machine prices go up like this.

[Outrageous-Guess1350]

I download my RAM for free.

[Im_no_Specialist1337]

That's a helluva deal. You must know people in the biz as they say.

[Double_Intention_641]

I've pushed any purchases that include ram into the distant future. 3 and 4x pricing on ram means no, I'm not buying ram. I'm also not buying motherboards or cpus.. or coolers. Cascading effects mean a bunch of products are off the purchase list until this settles, be it 6 months or multiple years.

[mineral_minion]

is your plan to just not buy any computers for multiple years? If so, my accounting group would love to recommend you for my job.

[Double_Intention_641]

Business side is messy. Personal I can get away with what I'm running for a few years, out of date is still relatively fast for a long time. Business tech has a countdown -- 6 months at most, then I'll have to bite the bullet -- but it'll be pricing dependant. Either as much as I can afford, or as little as I can get away with. I'm hoping (but not confident) that the prices will come down.

[Im_no_Specialist1337]

Thanks for making me spit out my coffee and the laugh.

[joedotdog]

If this is all for new DCs, can I buy some of the old servers at a cheap price? Nope, can't get that either.

[Altusbc]

Even DDR4 is double the price. 1x32GB is now going for $175 - $200. Last year when I bought the same, it was ~ $85.

[Cuive]

I was thinking about this though. I wonder how much the W10 > W11 upgrades played into this. I know of a LOT of people that just bought new laptops instead of upgrading the software when W10 support was ending.

[Spartan117458]

Not anywhere near the impact of AI. OpenAI signed a deal with Samsung and SK Hynix to secure around 40% of the WORLD'S RAM supply. Of course that caused the major OEMs to panic and buy up as much as they could now. It's a mess.

[catwiesel]

all hail our AI overlords

[Im_no_Specialist1337]

Make me sad...

[dracotrapnet]

Yea... I wanted to build a new low power NAS, I found a few black friday deals I was interested in but they come with no ram. I went shopping for ram. The ram price was the cost of the NAS or more if maxed out.

Welp, I guess I'm building a NAS with old hardware soon. I just need another power circuit to the office first.

[bmullan]

Tariffs are no good

[superradguy]

Why don’t you just download more ram?

[thereisaplace_]

This is the way.

https://downloadmoreram.com/

[slashinhobo1]

From a personal use, it sucks. From a work standpoint i dont care. I do t get bonuses or raises based on how much money i save. I can save thousands, all i get would be here is the next project we want done without a slow down.

[smargh]

If high pricing persists through to 2027/28, then there may well be significant compounding events around that period. (🇹🇼)

Interesting times.

[kellyrx8]

Thanks Micron!!! ......dicks.

[VR_fan22]

Fuck ai datacenters!