I’m really glad I met my memory needs last year. The price is completely unjustifiable. AI will blow over (revert to reasonable expectations) and when it does, hopefully there will be something left of the market so that we still have companies left to sell us RAM.

Fucking sucks. Literally just started building a computer for my husband. We already bought the case, motherboard, PSU, HD, liquid cooling kit and CPU... All that's left is GPU and RAM 😭 fuckin half way ass done computer now on the verge of never being built. At least it's pretty.

I wonder how long I can keep going with my Ryzen 5 3600, 1660 Super and 16GB of RAM... 🤔

Great timing of two of my DDR4 RAM modules to die - I have never seen more errors in memtest+

Luckily they are still under warranty but the vendor simply gave a refund without any option to get a replacement...

When the bubble pops on ai, will there then be all those parts up for offer?

I got 64GB (kit of 2) ddr4 for 150€ In January, now it is almost 400€ or more. I thought of buying another kit of 64 later to max out my mobo to 128GB and now I'm totally kicking myself for not going for 128GB straight away. And last month it got announced they no longer will make ddr4 so I'm out of luck anyway now even if prices stabilize.

As for why I need that much ram, I'm a tab hoarder and like to run VMs

Never thought I'd have to time the market to buy my next laptop, but here we are.

Damn I am so happy I upgraded when I did, had the same computer for upwards of a decade before finally upgrading a couple years ago, got my 7900xt with 20gb vram for like 650 and it doubled in price over a couple months(it's back down now but whatevs), 32gb ddr5 ram for like nothing compared to these current prices lmao, I should hopefully be good for another decade

A couple months ago I decides to buy another set of RAM to get up to 64 GB on a whim. So damn glad I decided to treat myself for once, no way I'd do it now.

You don't hate genAI enough!

Memory prices have jumped a lot recently. Anecdotally, I bought some RAM off a website almost exactly half a year ago. Back then the price was 14 euro, now it is 41 euro, and the product I bought is still the cheapest for 8GB SO-DIMM 3.2GHz on the website.

Granted, there are two other possible reasons:

1. It could have been a good offer back then.
2. It is black friday tomorrow, so they might need a high price now to put it on "sale" tomorrow.