Dude, even DDR3 sodimm has doubled in price in the last few months
FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The RAM in demand is DDR5. The price of older RAM might be driven up somewhat because more people are buying older computers due to the price increases, but I doubt buying refurbs just to harvest the RAM would be commercially viable.
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
The demand has increased in ddr4 because it increased so much for ddr5. While all the data centers and ai bullshit needs the 5, it’s caused everyone wanting ddr4 to still need ddr4, and now people who wanted ddr5 to settle on getting ddr4 on the higher end speeds and capacitties.
DDR4 is currently like double the price is was 6 months ago.
IronKrill@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Depends. The price of the same DDR4 kit I bought earlier this year are now 4x what they were.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 1 day ago
DDR5 is the latest tech, but it affects everything. Even SO-DIMM DDR4 have had a price hike.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
I bought DDR4 ram a year or two ago for $30 bucks. It’s $70 for the same RAM now.
hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Yep. Annoying. A few weeks ago I didn’t realize all of this was starting, I wanted another 16gb ddr4 for a computer I was converting into a server.
Was annoying to discover the price increase for seemingly no reason.