Maybe the big 3 are scared that there might be a chance that they are not going to fully win the anti-trust lawsuit and are hiking the prices up, so when they eventually get slapped with a fine of 0.1% of their quarterly profits they can offload that on the customers too.
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Guess I’ll keep using my DDR3 machine for a few more years.
Isn’t ddr4 pretty affordable at this point?
Not really. A lot of regular consumers got priced out of DDR5 so they went back to DDR4 and now it’s insanely priced too. Like $150+ for a 2x8GB sticks
Even ddr3 has gone slightly up, which is insane
Ooooooof. Fuck everything.
No. Even DDR3 prices have skyrocketed.
Hell yeah, another fellow user of DDR3. It’ll live forever!
I don’t really see a reason to upgrade, my i5 from 2009 is still running fine. Damn, now that I’m writing it out, that does sound old
Legit thinking of selling RAM sticks to rich people so that I can pay rent a bit easier lol (not actually loling)
Is RAM finally worth more than a kidney? I have two of those but I have 4 32GB ram sticks, can I keep my kidneys when I need to pay my bills?
You and I, friend.
We’ll recycle A pile of scrapped computers and we’ll be in Belize by winter!
🏝️🍹
Right right, great timing with the class action lawsuit.
Ram demand expected to drop another 40-50% in Q3?
If you’re going to measure demand in a way that makes sense for a demand vs supply formula, you must do it in a way that’s independent of the price.
Prices are increasing because demand is high, and supply is not keeping up.
I wouldn’t say demand is high I would say demand is glitched and infinite. The AI bubble has gotten to such a scale where all the existing parts are already sold but even further they have sold parts that don’t even exist yet for datacenters which haven’t even started construction yet in order to satisfy a projected demand curve the sales people dreamed up in order to somehow promise a slight profitability of this entire mess.
It sounds more and more like planned economy rather than capitalism lol
It’s all of the downsides of a planned economy without the upsides of having a fucking plan.
Planned profit
Fair enough, I meant consumer demand as in not ai and data centers
Also most consumer demand indirect. Few people buy RAM sticks but a lot of people buy laptops, tablets, smartphones, TVs, consoles, cars, fridges, toasters etc.
Thank God my toaster’s had 32GB DDR5 since 2024.
I still demand new RAM, but still caan’t afford it
Just need to sign a few more multi-billion contracts of massive data centers that will totally get built out.
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They were grouping together to all raise prices at once. If everyone who sold food suddenly raised their costs together, would it be fair? There’d be consumers to buy it. Basic economics!
Just because people would pay more for something, doesn’t mean they should have to
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The problem lies in 3 companies owning a monopoly on dram production and all conspiring together to make things shit for everyone who isn’t them
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3 companies can’t all have a monopoly on the same thing lol
If they’re running a price-fixing scheme they sure can
They very much can when they’ve been proven to collude to keep prices up.
If any one of them started making more RAM, they’d make a lot more profit than the other two. If all 3 did, they’d all still make a bunch of profit, but not as much as right now. They have an agreement that nobody ramps up RAM production so everyone gets to keep super high margins.
In the past they’ve literally agreed upon a target price to keep…
You’re alleging that they’re doing this. Zero proof.
3 companies can’t have a monopoly. It’s literally in the definition of the word monopoly.
I guess we should dog in and wait for the AI to come crashing down and all kinds of memory stuff going way down.
My friend, I’m sorry to tell you… That’s not how this is going to go.
After the crash, no matter how you shake it, three truths will be standing between you and affordable ram at home.
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None of the backlog of product that had been fabricated will be useful and adaptable for Consumer equipment. They can’t just repackage any of the HBM products to fit in our computers.
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Every ram MA ufactufer will suddenly be facing a cash flow problem as their principal (and in some cases, ONLY) accounts receivable will be dodging them and checks won’t clear.
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All of the equipment thst MA ufacteres the memory chips will need to be retooled and all of the supply chain paths to packagers and Distributors will need to be spun up and rebuilt.
All of this hurts the memory pricing we pay at the end of the line.
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Let me check…
Yeah, Morrowind still runs fine. I’m cool.
As long as your RAM doesn’t stop working…
Does anyone here know how to get the DDR5 Chinese RAM?
It might end up being cheaper to fly to hong kong and buy a terabyte at this point.
I’m pretty sure they can only make DDR3 so far.
They’re actively producing DDR4 and 5, with Corsair notably having purchased supply from CXMT for use in their Vengance line, just not for North American distribution
Ali express but the prices end up being the same because the demand is still to high for China to match the supply.
I think they’re a bit cheaper if you buy within China, but globally it ends up being better to pick a good OEM with proper warranty.
Hetzner just raised their VPS prices for the second time in two months, 300-400%. Not sure how much more of this I can bear lol
Not my dodge truck! Oh, wait…
Dodge RAM? Fuck yeah! 😃
Oh, that kinda RAM ☹️
Couldn’t even buy a Raspberry Pi nowadays :(
Now it’s paying for RAM with a bonus Pi attached.
Yeah, a RPi 5 16GB is almost at laptop prices now. At least here.
Truly hate this timeline
I’ve been looking at used PCs and usually those are just missing the gpu, but now I’ve been seeing no RAM and no SSD. At least with the gpu only being missing it was semi functional if there was integrated graphics, but now you are just basically buying a brick until you can get 3 components that cost 400 or so USD
Honestly, what’s the point in selling the machine at all at that point. Clearly those components are worth more out of the machine than in.
I started building a RAID before the prices of hard drives popped off, so I got the enclosure and one drive, I was going to buy the other drives when I had some spare cash. Now a single 8tb HDD (not even solid state!) is $450 CAD and there’s no way I can spend $1350 to finish this thing so it’s just sitting there.
I had the exact same plan, luckily I had a couple of other 1TB drives lying around I’ve made a RAID from. but i took a screenshot of the drives I wanted when I bought my first 4TB drive, and then I looked at them again 11 months later…
Lower price is from 06/25 and the other is 05/26.
