I swear there's a new gold rush every time I want to upgrade my pc.

First they came for the hard drives, and I did not speak out because I didn't need a hard drive. Then they came for the GPUs and I did not speak out because I had a pretty dope GPU. Then they came for my 8gb of ram and there was nobody left to speak out for me.

I have 128gb of corsair ddr5 in my closet. IM RICH!

Just did a quick check, it's worth double what I paid for it. I'll just let it sit in my closet until it's worthless.

Lol pricing computer parts like they do fish in an expensive restaurant.

What a time to be alive.

If you want to see a good set of graphs on pricing over time, PC Parts Picker does some good ones. It's absolutely INSANE how bad it's getting. The graphs in question.

Ffs I keep delaying a rebuild of my PC because of crap like this every year thinking the bubble will burst, but something new comes up. I don't use it for gaming nowadays, just regular browsing since I have a console but even Sony is bringing their stuff to PC so I was looking to upgrade. Now it's been pushed even more.

Hang in there my 8 GB ram PC with GTX 960...

Lived in the Silicon Valley in the 1990's, when the price of RAM exploded with the web, armed robberies of manufacturing plants and warehouses for RAM became a thing for a few years.

Insert <Aw shit, here we go again . meme>

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

This is crazy, not displaying the price of an item in a shelf or display is against consumer laws where I live. And if the price on display is not updated the store is required to sell by the price on display.

That's crap. They've loaded their stock on a certain price and they want to surf the high wave while they can.

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.

Someone should tell them about those e-paper price tags...

Im still running off DDR3

This bubble cannot burst soon enough

I think that in the long run, the RAM shortage will turn into a glut of much faster and larger DDR5 RAM sticks. Provided if you can wait for the transition to AM6, an AM5 endgame system will have pretty good RAM.

If this bubble doesn't pop soon, I expect a memory card thefts to start making the headlines. Small and easier to carry off while being more expensive than some jewelry of the same size.

It’s not a fucking lobster. Base pricing per unit based on whatever profit margin you need on that item.

Nope, let’s get as much as we can at all times, like it’s silver bullion.

Well if you know of a better way to generate pictures of comically obese bearded men gayly dancing, I'd love to hear it.

Finally set up my proxmox server, been procrastinating for a year. Thought on a whim, "I'm only using 2 of my 4 slots, and I could benefit from a bit more RAM. It's DDR4, can't be that expensive".

Yeah... It was that expensive. More expensive than when I bought the stuff originally when this computer was new.