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When you’ve been waiting to build a new PC and you see tech stocks crashing (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 1 point 2 days ago (2 children)

yep lots of deceptive listings. Yeah saw that, and the best modules are outrageous atm often getting up to 100 dollars

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    That's the exact same experience I had when I wanted to upgrade with a legacy type of RAM like a decade ago, and back then I was already told that it's always like that. Legacy sticks don't get produced anymore and if you need them, the sellers have you by the balls - hence older is more expensive in this situation

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    The original simns and dimms definitely have always been a bit more pricey and rare.They come from a pre-internet era before the big explosion and computing that happened in the early 2000s.

    DDR2 was everywhere and dirt cheap for a time. Well, if you knew the places to look. DDR3 was getting close to joining if before all this bullshit started to happen. Hell even DDR4 a couple of years ago. I got ahold of a HP elitebook with a ryzen 7 2000 series and 8GB of ram. I wanted 16GB so I just needed another 8. But looking at the price, for a similarly specced kit to what was in it. It was 20 to 30 dollars more for some 32GB kits. Needless to say. That laptop has a ridiculous 32GB kit in it now. If only things were still that cheap.

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