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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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[–] 18 points 7 months ago* (6 children)

Best advice is grab an AM4 motherboard and go for DD4 ram. You wont notice a difference in performance for majority of games. DDR4 ram and AM4 cpu's are cheap.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    As soon as I saw the prices of ram shoot up a couple weeks ago I started looking into am4 chips and so did everyone else I guess lol. Now I don’t even see the 5800/5700x3d for sale at all in my local used market.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah but who needs a 5800X3D? a 5500 or 5600x will be fine for most. If you can afford to get a 5800x3d dont worry about the price and just buy it money clearly aint an issue.

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

    Lol what?? 5800X3D was like $250 when I bought mine. I wouldn't say it was cheap but its defintely not a "money is no issue" kind of number.

    Edit: alright rereading your comment, you were probably talking about people who want to buy a 5800X3D right now with today's price, and not just anyone who was ever in the market for 5800X3D-level CPUs

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    $250 is a steal but i've not seen it below $500 which is a lot to spend on a cpu.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago*

    I think I must have got it on sale or a very low point. Definitely was a nice upgrade! I had been non-seriously looking at 5950X or 5900XT as a sidegrade but I can't really justify that cost for something that is not a substantial upgrade, and now they seem to be totally out of stock anywhere I look. Oh well!

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    No. Ddr4 ram prices have been tripling this year.

    I needed ddr4 ecc, but couldnt justify paying 3x the price that I paid last year.

    Also wanted to buy ddr4 sodimm for my wife's laptop, you guessed it, 3x the price.

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