don't remind me i just bought. needed it now.

it feels like back in the day when sdram spiked to $500 for 128meg.

I saw a better than everywhere else black friday deal from PB so pulled the trigger on it. Seems that was the right call.

I thought about getting some more RAM several months ago, decided to put it off, as I usually do. Won't be buying now. 

After reading the comments I was thinking to myself, "It can't be that bad really", so I went online to take a look. Oh boy, it really IS that bad. Those prices are crazy!

Even Raspberry Pi moves price up and introduces a 1G Pi5 RAM option for affordability.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/shopping/raspberry-pi-5-adds-1gb-option-and-raises-prices/ar-AA1RNWkD

The expectation that next years models of laptop, phone, etc will have larger faster RAM, and likewise for GPU ending ?

Slimmed down Chomebookalikes maybe the future, Windows 12 designed for 1G Laptops and PCs. :-) 

These will lean heavily on " Datacenters " doing the heavy lifting. For monthly rental.

Games likewise, no need for local processing apart from a really good codec and a 'Datacenter" rental agreement.

Your power bill just went up as you compete with the " Datacenter " for power.

Ai loves this as its more input to train off. 

Yeh Nah it will never happen.

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A friend of mine bought some ram in august for $206. Now it is $690.

JemS:

 

A friend of mine bought some ram in august for $206. Now it is $690.

 

I have a similar story! ~$200 in Sept... now ~$550. Same kit. Same retailer.

I am interested to see what effect this has on other PC parts. RAM pricing is so crazy that everyone will hold off on any upgrades and new builds (beyond a no alternative option like the PC exploded). That is going to affect retailers quite considerably. Since demand will likely drop out of the market perhaps the drop in prices on other components will offset the rise in RAM costs.

JemS:

 

A friend of mine bought some ram in august for $206. Now it is $690.

 

Having said that, I bought a 32gb kit of DDR5 6400 CL32 TODAY for $378.35... Small local shops are awesome sometimes.

it is going to get worse

https://wccftech.com/memory-ddr5-ddr4-shortages-last-till-q4-2027-higher-prices-throughout-2026/

Crucial has finally stopped supplying the end customer market and now only produces for commercial customers (such as AI data centres).

nzkc:

 

JemS:

 

A friend of mine bought some ram in august for $206. Now it is $690.

 

 

I have a similar story! ~$200 in Sept... now ~$550. Same kit. Same retailer.

 

I am interested to see what effect this has on other PC parts. RAM pricing is so crazy that everyone will hold off on any upgrades and new builds (beyond a no alternative option like the PC exploded). That is going to affect retailers quite considerably. Since demand will likely drop out of the market perhaps the drop in prices on other components will offset the rise in RAM costs.

 

my 64GB RAM kit has gone up more than $1000. $348 in sept, today it's $1372 (G.Skill Ripjaw M5 Neo). That's a 4x price increase in 3 months.

Other stuff also seems to be going up, my nvme drives went up $300, cpu went up $110, motherboard up $35 etc. There was an announcement last week that AMD is increasing it's pricingg. GPU's are also set to go up again very soon. RTX Super series looks like it's postponed indefinitely. Consoles are likely going to go up, and anything else that needs memory, like TV's and virtually every tech product. Tech media are warning that 2026 is going to be a pretty horrible year for tech enthusiasts.

What I'm interested in knowing is what will happen if someone needs to RMA their RAM. Would a supplier replace it or try to choose to refund because it's a significantly lower cost when they can sell the kit for a lot more. Touch wood I won't need to find out.

IronH:

 

What I'm interested in knowing is what will happen if someone needs to RMA their RAM. Would a supplier replace it or try to choose to refund because it's a significantly lower cost when they can sell the kit for a lot more. Touch wood I won't need to find out.

 

I thought the choice of replace or refund was up to the owner, not the seller.

fe31nz:

 

IronH:

 

What I'm interested in knowing is what will happen if someone needs to RMA their RAM. Would a supplier replace it or try to choose to refund because it's a significantly lower cost when they can sell the kit for a lot more. Touch wood I won't need to find out.

 

 

I thought the choice of replace or refund was up to the owner, not the seller.

 

It is.

Early Monday morning I was looking online at a 64gb kit from ExtremePC for $806. When I went back at lunchtime to see if it was still available the price had gone up to $989.

Not cool ExtremePC.

What effect will this have on the smaller computer stores? I suspect there will be a few that just get priced out of the market due to dropping demand and skyrocketing prices of components.