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