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RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices (www.pcworld.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Generative “AI” data centers are gobbling up trillions of dollars in capital, not to mention heating up the planet like a microwave. As a result there’s a capacity crunch on memory production, shooting the prices for RAM sky high, over 100 percent in the last few months alone. Multiple stores are tired of adjusting the prices day to day, and won’t even display them. You find out how much it costs at checkout.

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[–] 36 points 10 months ago (14 children)

As someone buying load of secondhand tech, you don't need the latest and greatest

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Yeah but even second hand drives are stupid-priced today. No, I dont want to buy your 2014 1TB drive for 25€ + shipping.

    I can't wait for this to pop, I mean if it does in a way that produces selloffs.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    A friend of mine lives in Egypt and that would be a steal

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Is it difficult to buy stuff trom Europe in Egypt?

    Checking leboncoin (french place where people sell & buy stuff) there are lots of em for 20€ +p&p

    But there are also these kinds, for 10€, I almost want to make a RAID6 with a bunch just to see

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    I can never get people to understand this. I've got servers running on i7 8th gens, with stock 16GB ram. I could upgrade, but no need. People thinking they need 128GB to plays games are delusional.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    To run games, you might need at least 32Gb. 64 Gb is sufficient in most cases. Still expensive af

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    16GB is fine for most games, 32GB is handy if you run a lot of poorly optimized mods, but also memory compression helps with that significantly. 8gb of memory gets pretty cozy for gaming these days though, but again memory compression makes a big difference.

    Both my and my wife's computers have 32GB of RAM because it was cheap enough to not be worth worrying about, but if RAM is expensive you don't need a ton of it to enjoy your games

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, this is my point and experience too. 32 is better, I'd say 16 min. But people crying about needing 128 should rethink their priorities for gaming, were in a recession lol. Save your money.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Are people throwing 128GB in for shits and giggles these days? I'm kinda out of the loop and still used to people arguing about if 32GB is excessive or not. Used to be only needed for media production and honestly it's still debatable for pure gaming systems if more than 16GB is overkill

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    My husband and I have been using computers we built 15 years ago and we decided this year we'll finally build new computers... Lmao sucks to be us :( already built mine, his is almost done but missing a key component... RAM lmaooooo

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