RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices

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• markz@suppo.fi ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I swear there’s a new gold rush every time I want to upgrade my pc.

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  • notabot@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It wouldn’t be quite so bad if the previous gold rush ended first, but they seem to just be stacking up.

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    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Speak for your self - scored a nice GPU upgrade during the crypto crash, maybe something similar will be achievable after this insanity hits the brakes.

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    • bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This AI bubble needs to explode yesterday, Wall Street be damned.

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    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There was a nice window from about a year or two ago to about 3 months ago where no individual components were noticably inflated. Monitors took the longest to recover since the pandemic shortages so that was arguably around the beginning of this year that they seemed to fully normalize

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    • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s the tariffs, now. GPUs had come down a bit before the dumbass

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  • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is why I’m still running ddr4. Every time I think about upgrading a generation, there’s a run on some integral component.

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    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      AM4 is gonna last until the 2030s at this rate…

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    • Dultas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      DDR4 is expensive as shit too now. I was trying to build out a new rack for my homelab and 256GB of ram went from like $300 6 months ago to $1500.

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    • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Did I tell you about using arch?

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    • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I dki so too - just upgraded my X2600 with a shiny X5950, the nicest cpu my aging mainboard can run. with 16 cores and 64 gigs of ram i see a future when i simply replace the entire machine for daily use and make this one a very nice server.

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  • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s why I started treating computers as commodities — I rarely upgrade anymore; just wait the 5 years and by an entirely new system.

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Same except for me it’s 10 years.

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  • mack@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    because there’s always a gold rush for a specific thing, upgrades have slowed down considerably in the past 10 years, my laptop is 4 years old and still kicks like the first day, I still game on my 8 year old laptop which is permanently attached to the TV and running as a steam machine.

    this wasn’t even thinkable in the 00’s

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  • Hubi@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I feel like the luckiest person because I built my last PC right before the crypto hype and my current one right before the AI bubble.

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  • the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So it’s your fault…

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  • arin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same. Got 3080 for $1,500 usd in late 2020

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• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  First they came for the hard drives, and I did not speak out because I didn’t need a hard drive. Then they came for the GPUs and I did not speak out because I had a pretty dope GPU. Then they came for my 8gb of ram and there was nobody left to speak out for me.

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• demizerone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have 128gb of corsair ddr5 in my closet. IM RICH!

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  • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I also have 128gb of ddr5 ram

    And 64gb of ddr5 ram

    And some laptop ddr5 ram

    I’m going to wrap them all in Saran Wrap and stick them up my ass so my brain works faster

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    • Technikus5@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ah, but you see, if you wrap it in Saran wrap, they won’t be able to make contact. You’d be better off using contact grease for that easy insertion

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    • SparkyBauer44@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      brAIn power.

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  • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is it sitting on top of a pile of beanie babies?

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  • RepleteLocum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If it’s new it genuinely might be worth 2k. Looked at the prices yesterday and corsair had 64gb for ~1k.

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• BD89@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lol pricing computer parts like they do fish in an expensive restaurant.

  What a time to be alive.

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  • comador@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thing is, this isn’t new in the slightest.

    I remember calling around to different PC stores in the 90s and early 00s to find the cheapest RAM and hard drive prices.

    Before that, I remember my grandfather, an IBM employee in the 60s-90s calling places looking for best pricing on 64k-128k SIPP memory for an ibm pizzabox 286.

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    • 3abas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That was the norm before it was so easy to buy online from across the country, local stores set their own prices and a few minutes of calling to find the best deal is like searching on Google for a few minutes to find the best deal… But they weren’t doubling in price in a couple months, that I can recall anyway.

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    • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ll never forget the time someone in my neighborhood found out one of the local PC shops had a deal on 8MB of RAM for like 100 bucks. That’s not a typo kiddies 8 Megabytes. We were so excited, a bunch of us piled into one car and rushed over there before they sold out!

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    • Zink@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah the “shopping around” aspect isn’t even close these days. I remember ~25 years ago using price aggregator sites to pick up individual PC parts from all different websites.

      Today the situation is flipped. It isn’t difficult to find a really good price. If you buy all your parts from the same retailer, you’ll be way closer to the minmaxed optimal price than in the past.

      The problem is that right now the “good” prices are crazy.

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  • SatyrSack@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In paris there was this street “rue Montgallet” selling computer stuff like that around y2000, the prices for the most sold things were printed on a cheap paper daily or you had to ask. Guarantee? Yes, but it stops when you leave the shop, or so was the saying.

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • Xella@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For real. I’ve been building a completely brand new computer for my husband for a couple months now. Buying a new piece each paycheck, then I get paid this week and I discover I can’t buy the RAM… It’s fucking half way finished and the only 2 parts left to buy is GPU and RAM.

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    • InputZero@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Unfortunately those are the most expensive parts right now because they both require memory chips. Perhaps consider buying used, might be tough to find DDR5 DIMMs but used GPUs are plentiful.

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• Dogiedog64@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you want to see a good set of graphs on pricing over time, PC Parts Picker does some good ones. It’s absolutely INSANE how bad it’s getting. The graphs in question.

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  • tatterdemalion@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Here’s some that’s significantly cheaper than the graph would suggest: www.amazon.com/…/B0BSB94VC2

    Not that it’s a good price in general or anything, but if you absolutely must buy now…

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    • mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Currently unavailable.

      Well that didnt last long at all!

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• baatliwala@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ffs I keep delaying a rebuild of my PC because of crap like this. I don’t use it for gaming nowadays since I have a console but even Sony is bringing their stuff to PC so I was looking to upgrade. Now it’s been pushed even more.

  Hang in there my 8 GB ram PC with GTX 960…

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  • kieron115@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    so i switched myself and my parents to arch linux over the past 3-4 months and I can say definitively that those specs are fine for CachyOS (an Arch Linux distro). My mom is using my hand-me-down 970 with its lovely “we charged you for 4gb of vram but actually only 3.5 of it is fast haha sucker” and it runs great paired to an old i7 6700k

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  • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you have 8gb ddr4 you can probably get a decent deal on a used 8gig stick. Even that would be quite aboost.

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  • theterrasque@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you got good internet you could look into GeForce Now as a stopgap / headstart.

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• moonburster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As someone buying load of secondhand tech, you don’t need the latest and greatest

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah but even second hand drives are stupid-priced today. No, I dont want to buy your 2014 1TB drive for 25€ + shipping.

    I can’t wait for this to pop, I mean if it does in a way that produces selloffs.

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No, I dont want to buy your 2014 1TB drive for 25€ + shipping.

      well damn that’s a steal. I’d buy it.

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    • moonburster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A friend of mine lives in Egypt and that would be a steal

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I can never get people to understand this. I’ve got servers running on i7 8th gens, with stock 16GB ram. I could upgrade, but no need. People thinking they need 128GB to plays games are delusional.

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    • Ashiette@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      To run games, you might need at least 32Gb. 64 Gb is sufficient in most cases. Still expensive af

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  • Xella@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My husband and I have been using computers we built 15 years ago and we decided this year we’ll finally build new computers… Lmao sucks to be us :( already built mine, his is almost done but missing a key component… RAM lmaooooo

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    • moonburster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just get the least necessary and hope that prices will drop :(

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• Vandals_handle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lived in the Silicon Valley in the 1990’s, when the price of RAM exploded with the web, armed robberies of manufacturing plants and warehouses for RAM became a thing for a few years.

  Insert <Aw shit, here we go again . meme>

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  • sobchak@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think the RAM manufacturers were found to be guilty of colluding/price-fixing in that case (maybe this case too).

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    • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Altman secretly secured 40 % of the world’s DRAM manufacturing capacity last month. Supposedly Samsung and HK Hynix weren’t aware they were both signing up for it.

      That alone would be enough to call collusion if it wasn’t an obvious play to strangle his competition by literally choking them out of hardware.

      mooreslawisdead.com/…/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-dea…

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  • RobertoOberto@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But now the surveillance capabilities of both the state and large corporations have been ranked up to infinity and beyond. I’m expecting a partnership announcement between Micron and Raytheon any day now, where Raytheon gets free DDR5 and Micron gets armed and autonomous security drones.

    Kind of \s, kind of not

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• kurodriel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is crazy, not displaying the price of an item in a shelf or display is against consumer laws where I live. And if the price on display is not updated the store is required to sell by the price on display.

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  • tmyakal@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s blatant price-gouging. Any stock in the store has already been sold to them at an agreed price. They can set a number and make their set margin.

    Updating prices after each delivery might make sense (if their procurement department is absolute dogshit at negotiating contracts), but updating prices throughout the day is just someone trying to see how hard they can push their margins to drain every cent out of their customers.

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  • stevedice@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s probably one of those toothless laws that can be easily bypassed on a technicality. Like, just say the shelf is for “storage” and not “display”.

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    • kurodriel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Some places try to argue something like that, but if you push back a little they cave. The law estipulates a fine ranging from 74 to 1 000 000 USD for visible products in shelves or display without a visible price tag. And since its a fine, the government is eager to get his piece of the por.

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  • kieron115@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So with things like fish that can change day to day are they required to just update it every day? that sounds nice.

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• Schlemmy@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s crap. They’ve loaded their stock on a certain price and they want to surf the high wave while they can.

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  • Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Almost all retailers inventory on consignment. So, no.

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    • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No they don’t. They purchase at a fixed rate.

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They also need to be able to replenish that stock at current prices. I’ve worked retail many times in my life and arguably kinda-sorta do so now (albeit largely over the Internet) and I’ve never run any store where we did not set our pricing by replacement cost rather than original invoice cost. In my current operation there are some rare exceptions for clearance items and the like, but for the vast majority of products we sell for what it’s going to cost me to get the next one to put back on that shelf, not what it cost me for the one I’m selling you now.

    I don’t have any insider insight into other companies’ operations, but I imagine a lot of other retailers work things the same way. Especially these days.

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  • kieron115@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think what we’re seeing is the result of their stock depleting actually. AI has been buying up supply for a while, and I don’t think the consumer markets are able to compete.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s Free Markets, baby!

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• U7826391786239@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s insane. I literally just got that same kit of memory free in a NewEgg bundle just 2 months ago! And the 32GB kits I was looking at were all priced at around $75-125 for 32GB

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    • U7826391786239@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      yep. i took out a loan early in the year to build my new pc, knowing this ai shit along with the tariffs was going to make prices bonkers af, and i needed an upgrade anyway. 8% interest on a couple grand personal loan is better than paying 4x the price in cash

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• artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Multiple stores are tired of adjusting the prices day to day, and won’t even display them. You find out how much it costs at checkout.

  Someone should tell them about those e-paper price tags…

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• pressedhams@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s not a fucking lobster. Base pricing per unit based on whatever profit margin you need on that item.

  Nope, let’s get as much as we can at all times, like it’s silver bullion.

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• SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Im still running off DDR3

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• Mangoholic@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This bubble cannot burst soon enough

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• SabinStargem@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think that in the long run, the RAM shortage will turn into a glut of much faster and larger DDR5 RAM sticks. Provided if you can wait for the transition to AM6, an AM5 endgame system will have pretty good RAM.

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• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well if you know of a better way to generate pictures of comically obese bearded men gayly dancing, I’d love to hear it.

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• TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If this bubble doesn’t pop soon, I expect a memory card thefts to start making the headlines. Small and easier to carry off while being more expensive than some jewelry of the same size.

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You don’t hate AI slop enough…

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So? Don’t fucking buy it! Has that never occurred to some y’all? If the rest of the world had my purchasing habits we’d already be looking at Depression 2.0.

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• hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Finally set up my proxmox server, been procrastinating for a year. Thought on a whim, “I’m only using 2 of my 4 slots, and I could benefit from a bit more RAM. It’s DDR4, can’t be that expensive”.

  Yeah… It was that expensive. More expensive than when I bought the stuff originally when this computer was new.

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• OldChicoAle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Even in 2025, emerging industries are like “what’s an environment?”

  Can’t blame this on not knowing. It’s all just negligence and evil now.

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• Artisian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  (I know it’s not the point, but a reminder that data center climate impact, including heat, is nowhere near flight, agricultural waste, or construction. Hate it for its own reasons, not for fake ones.)

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As a result there’s a capacity crunch on memory production, shooting the prices for RAM sky high, over 100 percent in the last few months alone

  They said “market price”… What market are you shopping at?!

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KXrQYWbbIs

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• BigDiction@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The 64GB kit I purchased Aug 2024 for $195 is now listing for $540

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• njordomir@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I was told I was probably overdoing it putting 96GB in my PC a year or two ago. Be that true, but if this pricing doesn’t ease up by the time it becomes a server, my ZFS cache will love it!

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• ulterno@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Guess I should have bought the 128GB 3600 kit earlier.
  Are DDR4 also affected?

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• flubba86@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is nothing new. I worked at a small computer shop in a small town between 2005-2007. The owner treated memory as a commodity. He checked national ram module prices daily. Buying low, and selling high. He sometimes adjusted the module price on a per-customer basis.

  I get that it’s much harder to do that with online stores, where prices are published to multiple places, and for chain stores where the price needs to be consistent between locations.

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• zebidiah@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bitch, are you surge pricing ram? Cuz it looks like you’re surge pricing ram…

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