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German DDR5 Memory Prices Explode To 448% Of July 2025 Levels As Every Kit Gets Swept Into RAMpocalypse (wccftech.com)
submitted 12 hours ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
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[–] Wofls@feddit.org 3 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

How hard can it be to make your own RAM at home

[–] zarathustrad@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Just download it from a RAM torrent. Easy.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago

You wouldn't steal a car.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 hours ago

Core memory is probably possible, if you wanted to make modern RAM you'd need to buy hundreds of millions of dollars in equipment

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 13 points 11 hours ago

"explode" = up 2% from January. The explosion happened December 2025.