Stop whining, in 1985 I paid $400 for 256 kilobyte RAM for my Amiga 1000, AND I WAS HAPPY!
You kids nowadays are spoiled, with 100,000 times more RAM if you have an average build with 16 GB RAM and 8 GB VRAM.
But the Amiga was still more fun than modern computers.

Is it me? Or is it the kids that are wrong?
Hmmm... 🤔 ...
It must be the kids. 😋

Not that it matters anymore. GN summarised it best stating that we're already long past the point where the extortionate prices matter to even enthusiast consumers who wouldn't buy this shit at 3x MSRP anyway. Even prebuilts are selling empty case 'kits' to keep inventory moving.

Personal ownership was so pre-2020s anyways.

I can spend $800 on something I can use for years and resell, gift, or repurpose. Or, I can instead spend $180 annually under the threat of my data being destroyed if I stop giving into the extortion. Easy choice, really. /s

i am so ready for this to be over. i've been on the market for an upgrade for a while now but i refuse to let myself get scammed. this is pure disgust.

Idc I want those companies begging for my dollar on ten plus years.

To the data centers! Liberate RAM, for the people!

Note that this is specific to Germany (or, probably, the EU, but they're using Germany as a benchmark). German DDR5 prices had started coming back down slightly earlier in the year

I remember articles earlier in the year commenting on that. According to this article, they're now drifting back up again, albeit slowly.

I don't know if "explode" is really the right term. The price changes since the initial increase around late 2025 and early 2026 haven't really been dramatic.

I bought 128gb of DDR5 RDIMMs, cost about $4,200 or so. Considering that all new DDR5 for 2027 has already been bought by the corpos, odds are that this is going to be relatively cheap until the bubble pops.

On the...positive?...side, odds are that I can sell my old 128gb DDR4 machine for quite a few pennies.

Dram spot prices have been going up for a long while now, it has just slowed down a liitle bit, but you can view them here: https://www.dramexchange.com/

Had AI inflation not taken hold, I think most budget builders would still be opting for DDR4, so this headline feels like a non-sequitur to me.