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RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders (arstechnica.com)
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I went to a pc building shop and the price of 64 RAM DDR5 was over $1000. I could have built an entire PC with that price a year ago.

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[–] Auth@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (13 children)

Best advice is grab an AM4 motherboard and go for DD4 ram. You wont notice a difference in performance for majority of games. DDR4 ram and AM4 cpu's are cheap.

[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Dont wait too long, retailers are catching on and increasing prices.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

2nd hand its still cheap

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