Fuck billionaire techbros hard in the ass with a running chainsaw!

Was that too much?

Budget PC builds? How's about fucking all PC builds? Who's willing to pay that much money for a relatively small amount of RAM?

I was looking at upgrading my system to 2x48GB early 2025. It would have cost me around €300 back then, maybe €350 depending on the clock speed and timing. Which is a lot of money for memory, but a good amount to have for the future. With 32GB becoming the norm and 64GB as the premium option in the DDR4 era, upgrading to 96GB or even 128GB for DDR5 seemed like the next natural progression.

I had some other expenses and I felt my old system was doing just fine, so I postponed the upgrade. It's not like computer hardware is going anywhere right? Wrong as it turns out, the same upgrade would set me back at least €1000 today and might be around €1500 depending on clock speed and timing.

This 3-5x increase in price is crazy and has absolutely killed my willingness to upgrade. I hope my old rig is good for a while yet, as it looks to be possible my last system for a long while.

Was that too much?

Nope, just the beginning.

Fuck SamA specifically (and his cornering of the silicon wafer market) with a rusty chainsaw.

I was very lucky to have bought a new computer last year just before this nonsense. 64 GB is nice but I sure hope it holds for many years now since these prices are ridicc!

Purely out of curiosity, what are you using so much memory for? Do you do cad work or something?

Yes, it was.

We don't want them to die of blood loss so soon in the proccess.

AIs \s

I have 32gb of ram.

I play games like cities skylines 2, stellaris and command and conquer.

I've benchmarked the latest games like battlefield 6 and they all run fine.

I'll hold off upgrading, the only game coming out that I would have considered would have been GTA6. Which considering any pc release won't be for at least a year after console I guess that's the end of that

I will always regret not buying 64GB DDR 5 just before the first spike, could have sold half of it to pay back most of my new pc 😭 oh well I have 32GB it's pretty crazy

Weren't they almost 5x just a few weeks ago? I remember checking whether to stick to ddr4 or upgrade and 32gb of ddr5 5600 was 500€. Seems about the same now. Hardly an explosion ( at least relative to rampocalypse prices )

Sucks, however i've never really needed more than my current 16gb. Albeit I tend to run older games, but even amongst newer ones, never actually run out, though it came close with Beamng. I suppose another factor is my current OS setup only uses around 500mb ram at idle.

One of the things I need the most memory for is actually memory profiling. Running high memory usage workloads, combined with the profiler and all the debug information adds a huge amount of overhead. For profiling workloads of around 24GB you need 64GB in order to comfortably do that.

Man fuck that guy in the ass with a botfly-infested, rusty chainsaw.

That's the spirit.

I caved because I believe these new predictions, and settled last month for 32GB 6000MT/s CL32 at €430 instead of my planned 64. It's a huge speed upgrade at least from my original, but to be fair.. With inflation, €430 is exactly what I paid for 32GB 2400MHz CL16 in 2017

Jesus.

I bought a second laptop for running Linux in fall of 2024, and the timing feels so weirdly fortuitous.

If anything in my PC breaks that's it. There's no way to justify paying those prices.

Yeah it hasn't changed that much in the past month

https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/

https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/