This supply crunch is such a fraud - I was on a call with a analyst group covering the memory market and they described the current situation in hilariously depressing corpo speak:
"Pricing dynamics are reflective of coordinated production discipline amongst major suppliers."
I had to give them props, that is one of the most creative ways to describe the pricing fixing cartels.
Is a common phrase in cyclical industries. Increasing production requires huge capex (like Micron's new $100 billion plant in New York), but the reward for that investment are lower prices... A decade ago, during the shale boom people started talking about it and you can find plenty of use in the early 2000s already.
This is not going to end well for Samsung, Micron and Hynix.
The fact that RAM got so expensive is a market failure.
While it was the right idea at the time (for me), I wonder if I should have upgraded while the prices were a little more "normal"...
No real point here, just complaining to the room.
Enjoy what you have! Play games you like. Think about it again in a few years.
It's pretty crazy when computer components go tulip bulbs better than gold.
Is older stuff worth anything? I might be sitting on a goldmine... (Quick look at eBay - not a lot - non-ECC DDR3 2x8GB selling about £10.)
Don’t really need 64gb
i have 4x48 6400RDIMM, how much it is now ?
This is a website I like to use nowadays.
This is just some vibe-coded crap, isn't it?
https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/ may be more interesting to US users.
Probably not tracking eBay but retail stores..
But if you look at individual DDR-2x8GB items on pcpartpicker, it becomes obvious that ramtrack is just completely off here (why would 16GB be only 6% cheaper than 32GB, that is just not credible).
The rest is vibe-coded crap, yes.
