DDR 5 ram prices are soaring :'(

[Sideshow Bob]

Has anybody noticed the sad fact that DDR memory prices are soaring. And it has happen during the last months. I got my self a DDR-5 6400MTs 32GB kit late July. Now the price for the same kit has almost doubled. It looks like the higher the transfer rate, and the tighter timing. The higher the price hike. It is not funny at all. And who is mainly to blame (drumroll) Of course the tech industry's summer sweetheart, artificial intelligence. To be honest so far the most noticeable result of the AI bubble. Is a steady influx of useless AI slop on YouTube.  

[pickit2]

I got my last employers Lenovo p920, someone had removed the ram. the video card & the hard drives.
I noticed the price had gone up yes over double what it was.
I got 4 sticks of 16GB DD4 from a friend for the price of a few beers.

Looking at the list of Video Cards I have a Nvidia GTX1060 I will use this as it one of the few cards that was supported by Lenovo that have HDMI

only thing is WTF is Note: parts in red text are SBO.  

[Sideshow Bob]

I got my last employers Lenovo p920, someone had removed the ram. the video card & the hard drives.
I noticed the price had gone up yes over double what it was.
I got 4 sticks of 16GB DD4 from a friend for the price of a few beers.

Looking at the list of Video Cards I have a Nvidia GTX1060 I will use this as it one of the few cards that was supported by Lenovo that have HDMI

only thing is WTF is Note: parts in red text are SBO. 

The DDR-4 prices are getting higher because the production of new modules are ramping down. The is that memory manufacturers are shifting production prioritization toward datacenter-focused memory types. That have larger and better margins. I think the AI bubble will burst in a few years. Microsoft push AI in laptop computers very hard. But so far a killer app using a PC NPU unit has not manifested itself to this date. And a NPU is only a thing in laptop CPUs. Desktop CPUs do not have a NPU at all. Technically the AMD 8000 series do have a NPU, but those CPUs are using a laptop die in the CPU 

[Sideshow Bob]

Things are going from bad to worse. My 6400MT/s CL32 kit cost more than four times more than when I bought it in June. And a 64 GB kit is in the range of a Nvidia RTX 5080 GPU. 

[Magnox]

I built myself a new PC in summer last year after watching prices for half a year and procrastinating. 128GB RAM, 5700 TI GPU, 2x4TB nVME. I also upgraded the RAM in my HP mini that I use in the living room from 32GB to 64GB.

The 32GB RAM upgrade is now four times the price I paid. I simply couldn't afford to build the PC at today's prices. At a quick look, it's well over double the price.

For once in my life, I got my timing right on the pricing.

[Xwing]

I'm building a new desktop PC, a Core Ultra 9 285k with an Asus Z-890 motherboard. I paid an exorbitant price for 32GB of 6400 MHz CL32 RAM, essentially triple what it cost a few months ago.
Unfortunately, this situation is set to get worse. SSDs are also rapidly rising in price, and all products that use memory are set to increase significantly.
A few days ago, Raspberry Pi announced its new price list, with a steep increase for the various models based on the RAM installed.

[Sideshow Bob]

I'm building a new desktop PC, a Core Ultra 9 285k with an Asus Z-890 motherboard. I paid an exorbitant price for 32GB of 6400 MHz CL32 RAM, essentially triple what it cost a few months ago.
Unfortunately, this situation is set to get worse. SSDs are also rapidly rising in price, and all products that use memory are set to increase significantly.
A few days ago, Raspberry Pi announced its new price list, with a steep increase for the various models based on the RAM installed.

SSDs are now twice what they was in July and is still rising. I am dual booting my system with two Windows OS. The secondary system set up to never be connected to the net for running Altium and other software that is know for notoriously calling home. I ordered/built my system in July 2025 and the thought was. Why not throw in an extra SATA SSD just to do that. They are so cheap anyway.

[UKFlyer]

I bought a Core 9 Ultra 275HX Minisforum MS-02 Ultra as my main PC late November. I decided to go with the barebones version as I had m2 sticks I could re-use and the price difference between barebones and 32GB RAM/1TB M2 seemed pretty steep. Then I started looking for some DDR5 SODIMM RAM.....
After much searching I finally found a 96GB kit (only 5600 CL46 though) on Amazon UK that seemed to be priced sensibly (£275) but was only for delivery by February 2nd. I've been looking to see if they were going to find a way to cancel the order but got a shipping notice yesterday for delivery this afternoon.
The same kit on Amazon is £699 today!!!!!