You've somehow gotten two downvotes, but nothing you've really said is incorrect.

Well, I mean, I think $250 for 32gb sys RAM is a bit ridiculous, buuuuut...

Yeah, yeah, for most GPUs, at least in the US?

You scammed yourself if you bought one late last year / early this year.

Nobody (in terms of retailers and GPU mfgers) expected the economy to fucking nuke itself after more or less Trump decided to turn a very, very shaky, almost/maybe "recovery" (really more like 'stabilization'), into a tumbling collapse down a cliffside.

People also just arent't spending anywhere near as much on video games, the things you use the consumer grade GPU to play.

(Expect a lot of AAA publishers/studios to either go very, very big into debt/buyouts, or just utterly collapse in 2026.)

So, the result is, for the large part... demand has cratered, retailers are sitting on too much supply, and storing shit in a warehouse indefinitely costs money, so they've just been ticking down prices to try and induce demand.

Consumer spending in general is collapsing, so uh... yeah, fairly good time to buy now, assuming you're not in the ~60% of Americans who do not have $1,000 set aside for an emergency.

I did not know lenovo just straight up said they're sitting on a 150% of regular parts inventory, but uh yeah, if the entire computer industry basicslly becomes hoarders, yeah, yeah, that'd cause a price spike in system ram alright...

It really is a simple as... system ram is modular and can go into a bunch of shit, GPU ram is already part of the board, and just generally, consumer oriented GPUs are waaaaay more niche than consumer oriented system RAM.