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RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders (arstechnica.com)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I went to a pc building shop and the price of 64 RAM DDR5 was over $1000. I could have built an entire PC with that price a year ago.

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[–] 8 points 7 months ago (1 child)

I got a good deal where it was cheaper than the 32gb I intended to have :D It's DDR4 btw. So it might be worth the whole system soon (1000k for the whole computer in 2017)

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Ah, completely forgot that Intel 6th gen introduced DDR4 - I would’ve sworn it was much more recent than that!

    You’ve certainly gotten your money’s worth out of your system - that’s for sure!

    I went from a 3570K, 16GB, GTX 670 -> GTX 1080 (later SLI’d), to my current rig:

    5950X, 32GB, RTX 3090 -> RX 7900 XTX

    Just before the Ethereum mining rush took off, and with the current pricing due to AI fuckery - I don’t think I’ll be switching up anytime soon.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Gratz! That seems like you got really good timing to upgrade and then hold on for a bit :)

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Yeah, in hindsight it really landed at an opportune time.

    It’s a crying shame how greedy companies like Nvidia & Micron have gotten from back-to-back runs on their products - it feel like it will take a generational downturn for them to pull their heads in, and return to the more modest profit margins of the past (which even then was around 30%, IIRC).

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