I would avoid building a PC right now, but if you can’t, here’s our best advice.

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.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
    181·
    23 hours ago

    IMO, the pricing is an extortion scam rather than a real shortage. People are falling for it because of AI hype narrative. Best to wait it out.

    • dil@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      They are manufacturing only 35% of consumer ram compared to what they were before? The supply is really going down?

      • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        57 minutes ago

        It’s by choice. Samsung did announce recently that they are going back to consumer ram production instead of trying to compete for low margin big contracts on current gen hbm. At half of current prices, ddr5 is more profitable than HBM even for hynix (leader).