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#3440817 6-Dec-2025 20:37

Well, this got even worse.

You gotta give it to the shops here - they are reaming everyones a**holes with pricing.

They are x3, x4 pricing RAM even though they bought it at the prices pre-pricespike.

Also, ain't no AI giants buying RAM from PB Tech or whatever anyway. Who do they think will buy 64GB ram kits that cost $1900?

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#3440820 6-Dec-2025 20:46

I paid $515 for my DDR5 kit which is the 2x32 G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB 6400 CL32 (F5-6400J3239G32GX2-TZ5RK)

You can't get this kit anymore.

And if you go CL34... it's $1500.

Jesus f*ing christ please do not buy. Boycott. Reject. Nobody should be OK with this.

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#3440821 6-Dec-2025 20:51

MaxineN:

I paid $515 for my DDR5 kit which is the 2x32 G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB 6400 CL32 (F5-6400J3239G32GX2-TZ5RK)

You can't get this kit anymore.

And if you go CL34... it's $1500.

Jesus f*ing christ please do not buy. Boycott. Reject. Nobody should be OK with this.

Yeah its wild. I got a DDR5 32gb kit for $230 or so back at the start of the year - its over $800 now.

This pricing on RAM alone will destroy the premade and self built pc ecosystem. They cost more that the GPU's! And those will go up soon when it hits VRAM. I do not see how anyone could sell a PC that doesnt cost a fortune now.

I am just very curious who they think will buy this stuff?

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#3440822 6-Dec-2025 21:07

MaxineN:

Jesus f*ing christ please do not buy. Boycott. Reject. Nobody should be OK with this.

A "boycott" will not achieve anything,

The retail market is cooked, and TBH the manufacturers don't care, they've got the Datacentre builders lining up around the block, so unless you're buying RAM by the GW they are simply not interested...

The fact that Crucial have/are closing down their consumer retail business is a pretty big signpost when they're the third largest RAM producer globally

This Ars arcticle notes DDR5 prices have increased by a factor of over 4 since August ($80 to $310 now)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/after-nearly-30-years-crucial-will-stop-selling-ram-to-consumers/

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#3440824 6-Dec-2025 21:16

wellygary:

MaxineN:

Jesus f*ing christ please do not buy. Boycott. Reject. Nobody should be OK with this.

A "boycott" will not achieve anything,

The retail market is cooked, and TBH the manufacturers don't care, they've got the Datacentre builders lining up around the block, so unless you're buying RAM by the GW they are simply not interested...

The fact that Crucial have/are closing down their consumer retail business is a pretty big signpost when they're the third largest RAM producer globally

This Ars arcticle notes DDR5 prices have increased by a factor of over 4 since August ($80 to $310 now)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/after-nearly-30-years-crucial-will-stop-selling-ram-to-consumers/

Misunderstanding who to boycott.

We know the retail market is beyond saving because everyone "needs* AI. But it's also a cartel as well. For once I don't think CL or PBTech are that much at fault.... Bubble needs to pop.

Everybody knows exactly who is at fault and nobody did a god damn thing.

If its not obvious. I am beyond furious. We should be waking up and doing something about this.

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#3440829 6-Dec-2025 22:32

Do what about what? It’s supply and demand. When there was bountiful supply prices are cheap, when there is massive demand it gets expensive. When the AI companies got tits up it’ll be cheap again.

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#3440830 6-Dec-2025 23:10

I got a CL30 6000MHZ 2x16GB Ram stick a year ago for 230 nzd. It's wild.

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#3440831 6-Dec-2025 23:16

Insane brought DDR5 ram in September 2023 $215 now $722 wth

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#3440885 7-Dec-2025 10:13

I have to say, I am struggling to not believe this isn't a manafactured 'shortage' to help reset the price of comodity memory.

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#3440962 7-Dec-2025 14:33

networkn:

I have to say, I am struggling to not believe this isn't a manafactured 'shortage' to help reset the price of comodity memory.

Shops here might as well remove it from sale at these prices - no one will buy it.

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#3441144 7-Dec-2025 21:04

I paid $350 for 64GB DDR5-6000 in Sept, same kit now costs $1370! $1000 increase in 3 months!

I didn't need 64GB but it seemed relatively cheap, little did I know how right that sentiment would end up being.

Also bought 2x nvme drives for $600, now costs $900.

I'm sorry for anyone trying to build or upgrade in the current market, it's horrible, and it seems like it's only going to get worse.

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#3441145 7-Dec-2025 21:17

Handle9:

Do what about what? It’s supply and demand. When there was bountiful supply prices are cheap, when there is massive demand it gets expensive. When the AI companies got tits up it’ll be cheap again.

So based on my analysis, not that it's probably worth alot, but seems, cheap RAM is not far away.

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#3441199 8-Dec-2025 00:55

networkn:

I have to say, I am struggling to not believe this isn't a manafactured 'shortage' to help reset the price of comodity memory.

If you have had any involvement in global data centre construction you'd know it's not a manufactured shortage. The demand is insane.

At work we are very involved in the electrical side and the demand was huge during covid but now it's extreme. Jacobs are reporting a 5X increase in their backlog.

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#3441283 8-Dec-2025 08:55

It’s not manufactured in a traditional sense. But it is the result of chasing AI $$$, so much so that dropping an entire market segment is worth it to Crucial.

Yes it will drop again when AI runs into a roadblock but that may take a while…

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#3441852 8-Dec-2025 21:20

I bought some ram a few months ago.. and no the price has just gone mental.. at least 2x.

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