Yeah I feel you. It's hurting all of us, seeing parts at over double the price they're worth or simply out of stock. I heard that after taking all the DDR5 RAM they went after HDDs.

These are my notes on components I was looking at, dated

Motherboard

ASRock Phantom Gaming X870E Nova WiFi (1.3x base)

• Base £250
• £320 in 02/2026

CPU

AMD Ryzen Zen 6 10700X3D?

AMD Ryzen 7 9700X (1.1x base)

• Base £250
• £280 in 03/2026

RAM

Corsair Vengeance / LPX - DDR5, 6800MT/s, CL32, 2x32GB (4.6x base)

• Base £230 / £3.60/GB
• £290 in 10/2025
• £1,050 in 03/2026
• £480 used

Depressing compromise RAM

Corsair Vengeance DDR5, 5600MT/s, CL40, 2x16GB

• £270 used

Note: RAM in current build was £170 for 2x16GB in Feb 2017, equivalent to £230 in Jan 2026

Games SSD

WD Black SN850X 8TB (2.4x base)

• Base £450
• £700 in 01/2026
• £1,060 in 03/2026

OR Samsung 9100 Pro 8TB

OS & Program SSD

Samsung 990 Pro 4TB (1.7x base)

• Base £260
• £315 in 01/2026
• £440 in 03/2026

Fans

Noctua 140mm x 8

• Base £264
• £264 in 02/2026

Case

NZXT H6 Flow (1.1x base)

• Base £80
• £90 in 02/2026

PSU

Corsair HX1200i Platinum (2025) (1.2x base)

• Base £210
• £245 in 03/2026
• Purchased for £200 new

GPU (1.3x base)

Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XT 20GB (1.3x base)

• Base £700
• £900 in 03/2026
• Purchased for £520 used

Hypothetical:

High Capacity HDD

Seagate Ironwolf Pro 20TB, 7200RPM, CMR (1.3x base)

• Base £480
• £510 in 02/2026
• ST20000NT001

Seagate Ironwolf Pro 24TB

Xbox Expansion SSD

• Seagate 2TB
• £200 in 02/2026 (for standard 2TB Seagate NVME)
• Purchased for £267 new

Notes

base = ~Sep/Oct 2025, just before hell
RAM eBay Sellers ~ 2x base