The current price of the RAM inside my PC is higher than the price I bought the whole PC for.

My 64GB I bought August 2025 for $180 (which I cried was high) is now over $1000.

I put my pc together back in 2019 with the plan to upgrade individual parts over the next 5 years. Time rolls around to get a graphics card and they skyrocket. Time rolls around to extend the ram and they skyrocket. I'm so fucking pissed that this extremely reasonable and well thought out plan that I managed to make, one of very few that I managed to make before getting medicated, has been upended by forces that are both far beyond my control and also stupid.

I feel like a jackass. I built my son's PC with 32 GBs of RAM a couple years ago. My buddy built a new PC and gave me his old 32 GBs, which was the exact same brand and spec of the RAM in my son's PC.

I tried putting in the new RAM but got a boot error immediately. Rather than taking the time to troubleshoot properly and get it working, I just pulled it out and threw it away. I was like "meh, RAM is cheap and always getting cheaper. If I want to upgrade later, I'll just buy more."

itll be like gas. itll never ever come down again.

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You know shit's fucked when the discount is larger than the original price.

yeah.. i bought a system a little bit less than two years ago, now one ssd broke. fortunately still within warranty... they reimbursed me the original price...

Old Price: $68

New Price: $267

Change in Price: -29%

Amazon Math.

What gets me is the misleading -29% in the screenshot

I priced it out and I could sell my RAM, buy an AR-15, and use the AR-15 to get more RAM.

267€? What are those, 4GB sticks?

I rebuilt my entire setup less than a year before the spike. Also pre-ordered the Steam Deck. I regularly count my blessings with those. I realize just how lucky my timing really was.

I was checking for a flush valve I purchased and stumbled over the ram. Big yikes

Yeah I think it's time for another Skyrim playthrough, maybe I'll revamp the old PC for new stuff after the crash

Amazon???????

I checked what I bought. I got a 64GB pack of RAM (2x32GB) in late 2024 for $119. It is now selling on Amazon for $1,079...

I have the non rgb variant in ddr4 as a 32GB set I picked up a couple years ago from a Bin Store for like $6. :-\

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Hold your horses until the second half of 2027.

31st of May 2025, I spent $500 on upgrading to a 7800x3d, which was the cost of the CPU and motherboard. The RAM was just thrown in with the motherboard (X870 AYM Gaming, not like it didn't make me buy an expensive board to get it, but still). That 32 GB 6000 CL36 RAM is now $500 just on its own.

I don't think I could have possibly gotten luckier on the timing of that purchase

Can you share the template?

Time to consider unconventional memory usage techniques.

I went "overkill" on my build 10 years ago with 32GB of RAM for $170. Now they're going for $350.

Q4 2025 I bought 2x 128gb for my servers. For 800 moneyz. Now it's between 4400 and 6600...If I'd sell them now i could buy a shitty used car for it. Or even a rtx5090. Jeez. It's not fun anymore.

I just sold 2x8Gb of G.Skill DDR4 RAM for only 60€ so I guess I was way below market. I don't really mind because I mostly wanted to get rid of it and help someone get cheaper RAM in doing so. Hopefully the buyer won't try to speculate to make a lot of money off of someone else…

WD Red Plus 10TB NAS HDD in January 2022 cost 229 each. Today they are 640 new, or 500 new for the 10TB Red Pro. I had intended to upgrade size around now or before long, but the now largest 26TB Red Pro are 1150 each!

I bought 32GB of DDR4 RAM for cheap (even for the time) just before the prices really started skyrocketing. They only had a few extras in stock and I strongly considered buying them out and trying to resell them. If I'd done so I could probably retire by now.

Heheh yep. I just RMAd a Corsair set of 2x16s and saw the same when I had to pull up the receipt.

My 32gb kit went from 107 to 599 😭

I've been building my own PCs since the late 80's. This is the first time I've had hardware appreciate in value.

Hold and hope that nothing breaks. In a couple of years there will be no more bubble and Chinese overcapacity on the memory market.

I just got two 16 mb ddr5 sticks for $200 off a dude on Craigslist. Feels like I win the damn lottery. Pain in my entire ass to put it in my steam machine. Do not recommend.

The cheapest someone can get an upgrade is generally now for years now, to my knowledge. I've been seeing prices going up since before any pandemics, major ongoing wars, crypto, NFTs, LLMs or datacenters, so seems to be a general tendency.

Wasn't normal before this current mess? I don't remember trying to buy the same RAM again a few years later ever being easy.

Only a 500% increase? Lucky

Upgrade ? =/= Same RAM?