https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/dram-prices-surge-171-percent-year-over-year-ai-demand-drives-a-higher-yoy-price-increase-than-goldDRAM contract prices surged 171.8% year-over-year as of the third quarter of 2025. The increase now exceeds the rate at which gold prices have climbed. ADATA chairman Chen Li Bai stated that the fourth quarter of 2025 will mark the beginning of a major DRAM bull market.>He expects severe shortages to materialize in early 2026.Memory manufacturers had earlied shifted production priorities toward datacenter-focused memory types like RDIMM and HBM. It not home PC compatible. Consumer DDR5 production has declined as a result because partially same production line is used.>A Corsair Vengeance RGB dual-channel DDR5 kit that sold for $91 dollars in July now costs a $183 dollars on Newegg.The pricing trend extends to NAND flash and hard drives.(Hard drives contain 256MB DRAM for cache but such a small amount should be cheap in all circumstances)NAND price increase is easy to explain though, its same material as DRAM.Analysts project the increases>will persist for at least four years,matching the duration of supply contracts that some companies have signed with Samsung and SK Hynix.
>>107113103yes. ai companies also affecting this significantly. on top of that, stockpiles of cheaper memory now running out and now you pay higher prices due to increased taxation ("tariffs"). and yes, the us is affected more than anyone else witht these price surges.
The american economy was bet on AI
yep, I got assraped. I was getting 64gb of ecc ddr4 for about 120$, now can't find below 300. Not helping my startup, really regretting that I didn't spend that 2k earlier for all the sticks I could put in my servers.Should I take the hit now? Could it keep rising more than 200 fucking %
>>107113397ecc ram is cheap because no one wants itcheck used market
>>107113413I need 32gb/stick, I have been checking the used market but even my local hoarded won't sell me any 32gb sticks without the whole blade
>>107113413here's the price+shipping lowest on ebay with 32gb sticks. It's dire
Vibe code world>sloppers needs all the ram>vibe coders will waste all your ram>you'll pay for both sucker
>>107113447ebay is not a valid used market, the prices are extremely high there
>>107113517enlighten me, I live in canuckstan. Nothing on fb marketplace either
>>107113527kijjijj?
>>107113527Canada is fucked sorryMaybe you could take a drive to states though.
>>107113542hey I had checked a lot a while ago and found nothing, but I checked again just now and found some really good deals. THANK YOU
>>107113670Alright have fun.
>>107113103Jesus... I'm so happy that I put 64 GB in the desktop I built at the end of 2020. I'll never have to worry about it.
I voted for this. More tariffs pls.
>>107113873128 GB will not be a requirement for a long time
>>107113103For my build from 2022, I bought two 16GB sticks with the intention of buying another two later for dual-channel. Oh well.
I bought 16gb ddr4 last year at $32 now the same kit costs 80
>>107113920unless you're running local LLMs
What the heck, checked prices again and the 280 euro drr5 6000 96gb I bought in Q1 is now sold out, only 96gb 5600 is available for nearly a grandSomeone is seriously sucking up ram like a vacuum
>>107114740LMAO
>>107114740last week the ram i wanted to buy was 200 now it's 800
>>107113103Next time don't vote for the guy who promises to destroy international trade.
>>107115948Check ebay
What is more strange/funny is the fact that people in my local second hand website have doubled the prices of their e-waste tier ram sticks too.
>>107116400i dont know the ebay prices before
>>107116321we owned the libs doe
