And those of us with servers pray every day a stick won't fail. But at least people can talk to robots and make slop on demand...

This must be what it feels like to have bought a house in the 1970s

People who built 32+gb ram systems in 2026:

256 GB DDR4 here, kinda considering selling some of it now...

Bought 128 gb DDR4 and a 7900 XT... that system quite literally sits in my basement as my main driver is a Linux laptop with an external monitor. So busy with work and school that gaming took a backseat.

I bought a 22 tb drive the very day that dumb orangutan first threatened tarrifs. The price has more than doubled since then.

Grieve with me, I just lost a ram stick so it's down to 24. Possibly less depending on my Asrock's ability to manage 3 instead of 2 pairs

64Gb gang shout out!

Edit: Its now an investment!

64GB DDR5 and a Rx 7800 xt and 2TB m.2 for less than 1k before windows cut off win10 support. I use it for streaming and factorio and arch isos

I live in fear one of the memories will stop working

My friend who built 128GB home server in 2024.

Yeah... I built my wife a machine with 64 GB of RAM in ~October of 25 right before the prices spiked. Really kicking myself for not going all in and building a NAS setup at that same time. I can't realistically bring myself to purchase 4tb hard drives or ram at this point - it's too damn expensive.

(She's running fedora silver blue)

Decommissioned VM host my company was getting ready to toss out.

It's all DDR4, but even that shit is expensive now.

128GB DDR4 3080TI rig from 2022 still going strong, I feel I timed this well.

I did my rebuild before January 2025 cause I thought DJT was going to fuck up world trade, I underestimated how shitty the AI Bros are.

I have 16GB of VRAM too, baybee.

I bought my somewhat high-end PC in late 2025, two months before RAMageddon. Two people advised me against it. They said it wasn't a good time to buy because prices were already a bit high. I'm glad I didn't follow their advice.

Shit fam, i got 64gb of corsair DDR 3 dimms I ain't even using

Back in '22 I bought 64gb of ram because I wanted to have all my slots populated. For aesthetic purposes.

I got rather lucky with my purchase timing, tho I was just getting more RAM to deal with my 1300 Firefox tabs.

Bought a new laptop in 2022 and the upgrade from 32 to 64gb was laughably cheap compared to the rest of the laptop, so I just did it for the fun of it

Nowadays I think I could buy most of the laptop just from the resale price of the ram

I know it. Super wish I had more than 16GB these days. I even added enough to max out my system to my Amazon wish list back when it was cheap. Should have pulled the trigger when I had the chance. Not doing so will be my greatest deathbed regret.

I just bought 24gb of ram (I work in IT and it's always good to have some extra 8gb sticks).

it got stolen since the USPS delivery person couldn't be bothered to follow directions and leave it inside. and I can't get my money back :(

My friend always had our hand me down pc's and parts. One day he texted me, saying he wants to build his own pc and send me some infos. I said it looks fine and all. He asked if he should wait for black friday. I told him no, because we're not in amerikkka and it doesn't make a big difference if all. I thought i should build a new pc too, because mine was just as outdated, and bought my parts. By the time i have ordered and picked them up, the guy behind the counter was already like: ufff holy shit, saved some mobey there huh?

Bought 128GB for €140 a couple years back, amazing deal looking back.

not nearly that pasty, but ding ding ding

As one of those people I am decided not interesting in being represented by that...

Being in IT, post server build eyeing up the left over ecc

256GB of DDR5 and a 80TB NAS back in 2025 - although recently my NAS dropped a drive and I had to replace it, which was expensive.

My 2023 framework 16 is rocking 64gb.

I'm in this image!

I hate myself for thinking that "no, I don't need an upgrade just because, I'm fine with what I have" one year ago (and I was also hesitant because of the dying CPUs on AM5). 32 ain't cutting it for me any more, I'm aiming for 96 or 128, but definitely not before this whole thing blows over.

I got a 12 GB RAM S10...

...not long after, I hear the news that the new flagships will have 12 GB RAM instead of 16 that were planned.

The value sure went up.

I have a glorious 32GB of overclocked DDR3, how lucky am I.

I still have 32 GB of DDR in my drawer from when I upgraded to 64. I am too afraid to sell it because my current ram might break.

Now i feel poor

Ugh I have 16 GB and I decided to look uo how much it was cost to fill the other 2 slots, it is almost double.

I bought a macbook pro m5 max with 128gb ram in June before the most recent 20% price increase

Decided to go for it at that time as I wanted to experiment with running LLMs locally and as a hedge against rising RAM prices

I'm currently in the middle of building a ITX machine for my partner so she can play games with me. Ran into a mate of mine the other night who due to a mix up at the retailer had a spare 16gb kit of brand new DDR5-5200 and was looking at selling it on Marketplace. He fucking hates Meta (good bloke) and said for mates rates he'd give it to me for AUD $200 just so he didn't have to reinstall Facebook.

Fucking sold. Same kit is currently "on special" for $369 on the site he bought it from. Prices are fucked.

I've always been so poor that I always cannibalized old PCs for components

Before the rampocolypse I replaced 2x32GB sticks in my home server with 2x64GB sticks. I recently found I kept those 2x32GB sticks so I have 64GB of RAM sitting in my closet. I'm not sure if I should sell, or build something around that because I already have the most expensive piece now.

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."

64GB, just because it was cheap enough. Also, back when I used Photoshop, it would take advantage of however much RAM you threw at it.

Bought new computer in September 2024, to play cities skylines 2.

So, thanks you CS2

2024 I built my NAS with 2 x 16gb sticks, 2 x 32gb sticks for 94?gb of RAM. I got lucky.

Same with drives 14tb ironwolf pros, £200-220 each now £400+ each and I need 5 more of the fuckers.

Lucky me bought 768GB shortly before it went up. For my server and gaming-rig. Now the ram alone would nearly have paid the whole 2 PCs. Jeez. Fuck you all.