I purchased 192 GB of DDR5 ram last year on black Friday
The price today
I can’t believe I made this much money on my purchase.
If we don’t bankrupt the entire economy to achieve datacenter Skynet, then China will win. These prices are reversible, and you should boycott for now instead of hoping to resell to a bigger sucker later.
NVIDIA high inventory levels are most likely responsible for this. They keep ordering more HBM. At same time, they aren’t selling that much more, and giving big accounts receivable delays to their concentrated big customers. Hourly H100 rental prices are down 33% since august, and so even without price hikes on datacenter cards (which is certain due to massive ram, and ram prices that have to affect AI cards too) actual demand may be going down which is what will shift memory production to more useful categories.
The case for total US collapse, is government policy that steps in to buy all of the datacenter time for Skynet goals. Already, make NVIDIA richer by increasing their sales to Zionist allies and China is to make every American poorer. The unanimity of evil in US political/media establishment stays quiet on the heads, destruction of America through bankruptcy; tails, Skynet slavery and genocide.
Well shit, I’ve needed a new pc for a year.
Originally my brother in law who works in IT said wait until new gpus release and the 40 series will come down.
That didn’t happen
Now this, and I have a baby coming at the end of January so I think I’ll have to limp my old pc for the next 18 years now haha
Tired of my hobbies being ruined by tech monopolies.
It’s the crypto boom, when it isn’t, it’s AI.
Wonder what bullshit it’ll be when I decide to buy my next upgrade. Maybe rare metal eating tape worms.And when it’s not AI, and not crypto, it’s a “sorry the rain kinda fucked up our DRAM factory, limited capacity for a year” or “sorry COVID kinda fucked up our resource pipelines, reduced capacity for a year”.
There’s always an excuse to pump up the prices, and never a reason to lower them. I do hope DRAM manufacturers get bitten in the ass for it though, have the AI bubble pop, leaving them with a bunch of orders that can’t be fulfilled because the buyers no longer exist…
The worms sound more useful for society.
I needed to upgrade my GPU in 2020 and now I need to upgrade my RAM, fuck me
Same. I always pick the wrong lane in traffic or the supermarket too. It’s like I was cursed.
See a bubble. Globally suppress wages. Lower staffing. Lower production (and production quality which is a overall circulation decay as units fail). Increase prices. Massive profits. Buy back own stock essentially fellating oneself. Mass layoffs. Endure the bubble burst with massive coffers (real or fake who cares). Rinse repeat.
Cheer up guys. All that trickle down economy will fix everything right up.
Just have some patience.
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I bought my Crucial pro 2x16gb kit at the beginning of October and while it isn’t the best ddr5 i managed to get it for 89,99€ from Amazon and have been keeping an eye on it’s price, it costs 230,99€ now and frikkin Amazon put it on “sale” yesterday 9% discount from 252,99€, 3 days before that it’s “normal” price was 230,99€, Black Friday sales my ass these are shameless cash grabs.
For a few years now, my favorite hobby for black friday is picking a bunch of items on amazon a couple of weeks before black friday, take screenshots of the items pages and then check them back on black friday to see how much they are overcharging compared to two weeks ago. Of course I never buy shit during these “sales” out of principle.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
Thank you data centers!
Just bought a new pc ago, im so Glad I didn’t wait for black Friday
Well PS5 only has 16 GB RAM
This has to be speculation. No way the supplies dired up so fast in a month
Not really speculation. DRAM manufacturing capacity is split between like, 4 major manufacturers, and all of them already contracted out their full capacity for the next year - all the sales going towards AI hardware, B2B sales (because B2B is guaranteed big contract vs B2C where you’re literally relying on every buyer and every sale separately). Which means little to no capacity for RAM module manufacturers, which means little to no supplies after current stocks run out.
Of course current stock being upmarked is end seller greed, and to prevent a sudden rush (just like with TP during COVID, if people hear about something being in limited supply, they panic buy, FOMO is a dangerous drug after all).
Of course current stock being upmarked is end seller greed
So, speculation. They read that the supply was going to be limited and they’re trying to cash in as quick as possible.
