The current price of the RAM inside my PC is higher than the price I bought the whole PC for.
Same here. I had second thoughts about getting 128GB of DDR5 in my new rig in 2024. Thought I was being frivolous and foolish with my money. I mean, I was, but I’ve now got a rig that should carry me through another 10 years
My desktop has 96gb ddr5 and 8tb of nvme, my laptop has 96gb ddr5 and 4tb nvme, my nas has 128gb ddr4 and 16 used 20tb drives that I got for $200 each, my virtualization mini pc has 64gb ddr4… I put excessive amounts of RAM and storage even on my routers. I feel like a silo/bunker owner in a post-apocalyptic movie.
My 64GB I bought August 2025 for $180 (which I cried was high) is now over $1000.
At that point I’d sell it and buy a steam deck and a used laptop.
You must have a huge amount of willpower. I don’t think I would resist the temptation of selling one of the DIMMs if I were in your shoes.
Hell yeah! You could buy so much RAM if you had that money!
itll be like gas. itll never ever come down again.
I remember buying a car in 2005 and considering if I should buy a hybrid or not. I did the calculations on how long it would take to break even upgrading to a hybrid - taking into account the price of gas at the time.
I remember thinking “yeah gas is $2 a gallon now, but there’s NO WAY it stays that high over the life of the vehicle.”
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’m still running the base of my am4 system from 2017. Got some good value used parts for it (CPU&RAM).
But I don’t see me upgrading to am5. I’ll probably just wait for am6.
Same, unless it’s sill flogging AI nonsense.
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.”
Most ram has a lifetime warranty too lol
Old Price: $68
New Price: $267
Change in Price: -29%
Amazon Math.
Obligatory
You know shit’s fucked when the discount is larger than the original price.
What gets me is the misleading -29% in the screenshot
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…
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 was checking for a flush valve I purchased and stumbled over the ram. Big yikes
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.
There was a lot of 512GB OLED Decks that went up for sale in February 2026. I had previously planned to buy a refurb unit, but I had a sneaking suspicion they were going to announce a price hike soon, so I paid for a new unit at the $549 price. Not regretting that one. The price went up to $789 in May