TBF that is a crucial ram stick in the picture, those are rare shinies now
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2026
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The DDR4 sticks I got 18 months ago now cost 300-400% the price they were, so it's not just DDR5.
... and I just realised the title doesn't actually mean "DDR5 prices", but that was an easy misinterpretation on my part, so I guess I'll post this anyway.
The 64gb memory i bought in june are up 400%
Still cheaper than my macbook air though
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Amazon right now 700+ for two sticks of 32GB DDR5. Crazy
2026 is going to suck for hardware, but 2027 might be better if this nonsense blows over. For one thing, AMD’s RDNA 5 was announced for 2027, which is supposed to be more comparable to Nvidia for compute workloads, including real RTX cores. AMDs recent SoCs have been pretty impressive, so I’m looking forward to AMD SoCs that are competitive with Nvidia discrete GPUs beyond just rasterization, except without artificially constrained VRAM and lower power requirements.
Who produces the chips that make AMD products? They are the bottleneck. If those fabs are already overloaded, a new product won't help in any way.
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I used to scavenge all the ram I needed from the trash, nothing in months