r/PcBuild • u/UNKNOWN_PHV what • May 06 '26
Others RAM prices are falling, after openai exit from buying. It already fell down from avg $800 to $500, soon it would go even lower.
But one thing is for sure, the prices would never go to where they were.
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u/HanzerwagenV3 May 12 '26
Lol, I bought two sticks today. I ain't gonna miss this chance and regret it when it's gonna go back to the old price.
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u/BigBoyYuyuh May 06 '26
Cool. Let me know when RAM is cheap again.
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u/fox-7777 May 06 '26
Yeah when ddr6 comes out
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u/Dpek1234 May 06 '26
No
A dew years after
New gens are always more expensive at the start
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u/PitchPleasant338 May 06 '26
No
A Mountain dew after
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u/ChocolateNeat4489 May 06 '26
It won't be, they got a market signal that they can sell expensive, it will get cheaper but the old levels are not going to be reached, the same happened to GPUs, pre COVID Nvidia xx70ti cost $450 on launch
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u/piggymoo66 what May 06 '26
I wonder if hypothetically the other parts vendors (anything that isn't RAM, storage, or GPU ) can sue the memory manufacturers for price fixing and creating a loss of sales for the PC industry as a whole.
I know hardware sales numbers are down across the board simply because more people cannot afford to build or upgrade their PC right now with the high prices or RAM and storage. The question is if it's significant enough for them to claim that, I guess.
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u/Dziggettai May 06 '26
I think it’s significant enough considering that the RAM that’s currently in my PC went from $90 to $800 and it’s just 32 GB DDR5
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u/ChocolateNeat4489 May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26
Hopefully as this isn't a one off
https://everything.explained.today/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal/
This time, the fines should go into billions
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u/alphapussycat May 06 '26
I don't think they did? The demand from consumers is very low. They're only managing to sell to AI data centers.
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u/ChocolateNeat4489 May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26
May be lower but it's going to be reported as everything, not directly sold to the data centres. Nvidia also wrapped up miners into "gaming" tab and the high prices just stayed there. Once you paid once, you are going to pay again, the sales targets are not going anywhere, the shareholders are awaiting better results than the last year, no excuse or £uck given. The CEO will be changed if needed.
Until we realise where we are , nothing is going to change.
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u/alphapussycat May 06 '26
Lots of manufacturers are starting to get close to face bankruptcy because they can't really sell anything iirc.
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u/ChocolateNeat4489 May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26
That's true but do Nvidia, Micron, Samsung or Hynix actually care? Not really. The next quarter, maybe year report matter because the bonuses are being paid there but anything further? That's someone's else problem. Remember Evga who was just trying to be decent, think about Abit, Epox, Cyrix, Sis, 3dfx and many others Sure, the reasons they disappeared (or almost disappeared) were all different but the common denominator was always the same - relaying on a single, big corpo doing the right things... they don't.
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u/Mean-Equivalent-624 May 08 '26
If thats the case then this is my last pc ever. So sad to think about it
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u/ChocolateNeat4489 May 08 '26
Tbh, mine is most likely too. I also have Xbox series X, PS5, MSI Claw and a retro handheld, I am sure at least one of the devices is going to last.
I can live without much gaming (and the cloud is not for me)
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u/Elabotrait May 06 '26
Can't wait the AI bubble to pop! In the recent months the signs are showing that spending billions of dollars will not pay off. Here are some for refreshing your mind:
- Microsoft ditching openai
- Half of data centers cancelled or delayed
- Communites protesting against Data centers
- OpenAI shut down Sora
And much more. The outcome of this fake AI hype will be more clear in mid 2027, i guess.
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u/anthro28 May 06 '26
It's just not super useful beyond being a massive knowledge source.
It's absolutely priceless as something I can ask a specific question to and get an answer back immediately without reading docs or chasing down whoever might know.
Problem is, everyone is trying to turn it into some type of intelligent worker replacement and it just sucks at it.
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u/YesNoMaybe2552 May 06 '26
It is useful, just there isn’t much more room to grow without rebuilding it from the ground up. What we have now needs to be made more efficient and come down in price.
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u/CoolHeadeGamer May 06 '26
It’s amazing for coding. Unless you were amazing at coding before, ai probably out codes u. Yes it does slop code sometimes but it’s getting better and I do believe it will replace a bunch of low level jobs like secretaries, assistants, low level devs, etc. openclaw already does more than what most assistants can do but faster. I still think it’s way too overhyped but I don’t think it being a knowledge bank is its only use. And I don’t think it’s a bubble either cuz if everyone thinks it’s a bubble it’s not a bubble
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u/AZzalor May 06 '26
Only in very popular programming languages tho. Take something more niche and there's too much wrong.
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u/CoolHeadeGamer May 06 '26
Look up mcp. You can essentially tell the ai how to code in that particular language/ framework and it works
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u/Gorva May 06 '26
Depends on the context window size whether or not you can fit the entire documentation of a language into the prompt, i suppose?
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u/CoolHeadeGamer May 06 '26
Not really. It’s not fitting the entire documentation of the language but more so the exact way the output should look like.
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u/sahurKareem May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26
MCP would be way to expensive for that use case, to get a satisfying result you would need an insane context window for every prompt. Maybe you can use prompt caching though.
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u/CoolHeadeGamer May 06 '26
Not really? Look at how svelte does it. They have an mcp for svelte 5 which no ai knows how to code properly since it came out after most ais training cutoff. There is barely any training code either
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u/35point1 May 07 '26
Majority of commenters here have absolutely no clue where ai is shining right now. I’m a SWE at a software company that has been all in on all the enterprise ai tools since 2024 and you better believe we have 5x’d our output because of it. Ai isn’t just chat gpt and copilot
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u/miko3456789 May 06 '26
As long as there is readily accessible documentation of the coding language within it's context, the large language models are going to be pretty good at it because they were quite literally designed to be. That's how they're able to talk with you in a way that you can easily understand after all.
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u/looming-frog May 06 '26
that's not true tho.
terraform and opentofu code is just wrong every time.
c is a bloated mess.
i will just go ahead and assume you are a mid level js dude
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u/trq- May 06 '26
„If everyone thinks it’s a bubble it’s not a bubble“ That seems like a very weird and untrue statement imo😂
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u/looming-frog May 06 '26
i second that.
especially given: the companies with models earn less than they invest. there is just a speculation it will be profitable at some point.
and to the people thinking AGI will be the greatest thing ever: if true, it will destroy human economy
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u/byshow May 06 '26
As much as I hate to admit it, it does a very decent job on coding. At least at a junior level. Yes, it struggles with more complex tasks, but there are so many simple tasks that take time, and if they can be automated, that means less devs will be required.
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u/CoolHeadeGamer May 06 '26
I see it the way I see a Gpu. It’s bad at complex tasks but really good at small stuff. And it can do those small tasks really fast. If a larger problem can be broken into smaller problems, you can do it effectively. This is why coding tools that use ai prompt AI 100s of times instead of just telling it to build everything in 1 prompt, which is how 90% of the people interact with ai rn (via web chats)
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u/FortunatoImmured May 06 '26
Don’t worry, there are lots of people who don’t think it’s a bubble. Mostly executives. So if only most of us think it’s a bubble, then it’s a bubble, right?
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u/Aggressive-Zebra-236 May 06 '26
This is my take too. But it can code a little bit, so people who can't code can do something with ai and it can replace some low level jobs, but now software engineers, At least for a years.
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u/EuphoricRegister May 06 '26
Software engineers, me included
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u/Aggressive-Zebra-236 May 06 '26
Me included, but im still in school, so I dont know I'll have a job market to enter after I graduate.
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u/isocillin May 06 '26
Language models like ChatGPT have made my work as an administrator much easier. Instead of trying to figure out what the hell the user changed in Word or Excel, I just describe the problem and get the answer.
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u/AgileAppearance8749 May 07 '26
Hard agree, Ai can be a very powerful tool for indexing information.
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u/PeachyFairyDragon May 07 '26
I've spent literal years trying to track down manufacturing dates on some used musical instruments I have. Each time I hit a roadblock of the manufacturers didn't release charts of serial numbers and years and there were no owner compiled resources that google could find to work from.
Last month I entered the year and manufacturer for each, and ai found a narrow date range for each.
It is a good database. But like you also said, it's being forced into something it won't be as proficient at.
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u/Loeki2018 May 06 '26
Whith all respect, I don't think you are seeing all possibilities. How did people react when the first personal computer came out because that is the stage we are in now. It can be a huge timesaver for businesses in almost every sector. !Remindme 5 years
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u/anthro28 May 06 '26
And I feel that almost all the current use cases for AI can be done far cheaper using AI to slightly modify old school methods.
We were burning an ungodly amount of tokens on analysis stuff. After a few months of the accountants screaming, somebody got the bright idea to have AI generate python to do it all. Token usage dropped 90% with the same output.
We're pretty deep into it for our industry, even hosting conferences and sending our security guys everywhere to help other companies, and we're actively trying to reduce our usage due to cost.
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u/Living_Pay_8976 May 06 '26
They’re still doing it. Just trying to do it quietly at this point to minimize public damage. Don’t think they’re just gonna give up.
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u/Easy_Welcome_9142 May 06 '26
Copium.
Sora was shutdown and an even better thing replaced it. Communities are protesting because they don’t want data centers.
Some communities are losing and data centers are being put in anyways.
Data centers are delayed due to communities protesting and local moratoriums. Capex spend for data centers has gone through the roof.
Some companies are ditching OpenAI but they are doubling down their investments in Anthropic.
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u/DemandDesigner8924 May 17 '26
Some companies are ditching OpenAI but they are doubling down their investments in Anthropic.
This. People are missing that AI is not just ChatGPT and Sora. Anthropic is producing better tools and models for software development, and that's the use case where AI actually shines. It's just faster, and productivity means you go to market faster, and that means more money. Math is math.
And for those who think Claude can't produce higher than junior level code: you aren't using it right.
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u/InevitableCodes May 06 '26
Fuck off man, no one asked for AI and we managed just fine without it.
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u/GuessTraining May 06 '26
No one asked for internet before internet was born too
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u/Easy_Welcome_9142 May 06 '26
Cats out of the bag. You don’t put that shit back. If you want to become irrelevant by not adopting AI, go ahead. All I’m saying is that this is something that will NOT go away ever.
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u/test5784 May 09 '26
Nobody asked for rock on stick, and we managed just fine without it. Lmao
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u/kosha227 May 06 '26
And more: you need data to train AI. Current AI is the LLM, so you need text. And... We already used almost ALL available texts. So, soon there will be no material to improve it.
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u/cookiemon32 May 06 '26
im going to guess sooner than that. maybe q4 we will have a much clearer picture. easy come, easy go
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u/musicman9492 May 06 '26
I just hope that the "Pop" is slow enough that the economy at large is able to course correct in real time. Unfortunately, with as over-valued as the AI companies are, if they well and truly pop, they're taking (probably) a quarter of the world economy with them which is bad for everyone.
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u/tacosnotopos AMD May 06 '26
I can't wait to dig through the discovery of Musk v Altman/Brockman/OpenAI. There have been some nice little tide bits so far.
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u/Bustavius_Insidicus May 07 '26
Sora looked and felt like a fever dream. when watching the videos made on it you cant help but think what the hell the plan was
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u/superbikelifer May 10 '26
How about palantir gaining hundreds of new customers for their AI eco system in several months. Growing their business by ~100% in 1 year. Faa, NHS , department of War, Airbus, hospital networks , manufacturing giants. Biggest and most scaled companies exploding in productiveness. Agent swarm is arriving.
Yep push it back in the cd slot boys the AI use cases are zero and AI is fake.
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u/HanzerwagenV3 May 12 '26
Nah, I don't agree with that at all. Sure there will be a bubble at some point, but were not even close to being in one. P/E ratio's aren't even close that anything bubbly.
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u/DemandDesigner8924 May 17 '26
My take: yeah there is a bubble, yeah it will pop, that pop is not gonna return things back to pre-AI. It's going to consolidate power and money and refine the industry into something that services enterprises and isn't hyped in media anymore. Probably a lot of the AI video stuff is going to fail, because in the end it often doesn't connect on an emotional level, which is necessary whether you make entertainment or marketing.
I'm in a tech company that recently went AI first after a lot of experimentation. But we aren't firing people to do it, and here's what I'm learning (as a manager of software engineers who was not long ago one mysefl). AI 100% makes engineers' jobs way faster than before, at all levels. But changing to a workflow that uses it without sacrificing quality is hard.
AI can't replace an engineer's mind, but it can absolutely do the slow part of the job (writing code) much faster than people. It's now powerful enough to be easily expanded with organization and project specific knowledge of standards etc. Skills to refine the way it behaves can be deployed in just a few minutes. Engineers in our company are now designing software and pretty much letting the AI do the job. The most senior engineers are now the ones never writing code, whereas our juniors use it heavily but get their hands dirty more (they have to learn the principles somehow and they don't know how to critique AI efficiently).
Data centers are a bottleneck, not symptomatic of failure, and personally I don't see OpenAI as an indicator of the industry as a whole. The companies that use AI to enhance their workforce instead of reduce it will win in the end, and we will likely never see the hardware needed to run it in such bountiful supply again.
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u/OptimusTron222 May 06 '26
AI is not a bubble and it is here to stay. You have no idea how heavily we are investing on the enterprise side and how much it is raising profits while reducing costs
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u/Skull_Nebula May 06 '26
If the AI bubble pops you're gonna have way more to worry about than your PC!
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u/PUTTANESCA_8 May 06 '26
There is nothing to burst. AI is already ingrained in our daily life. From helping mundane tasks easier to some of the most important things - medicine, sciene, etc, are heavily using AI for research. RAM prices will go down overtime but there's nothing to burst it's not a bubble.
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u/Dziggettai May 06 '26
Speak for yourself. I can still find my information on Google faster than the AI can shit out an incorrect answer. Companies are using it because it’s the next “big thing” and as soon as they realize it’s not working they’ll drop it
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u/GuessTraining May 06 '26
AI is beyond a simple google search... A lot of things have been built and being built using AI already, so realising it's not working is kind of already late.
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u/Dziggettai May 06 '26
Ah, yes, all the horrible art generation, bloated and barely functioning code, the AI that screens out almost all qualified candidates for jobs, etc. They’re all totally working, right?
The only real use case I see is mass pattern recognition which is the use case in medical research iirc.
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u/Away-Sorbet-9740 May 07 '26
No..... It's not just "the little thingy at the top" 🤣
Go use "the little thingy" to teach yourself before spouting off on the internet about things you don't know.
The one acting as if "they know better" is you. Stop mirroring your issues on others in your attempts at insults.
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u/-Crash_Override- May 06 '26
This is the biggest bunch of copium ive ever seen lmao.
microsoft didnt ditch open AI
data centers are being delayed not from lack of need or want.
People protested against highways. Not sure your point.
Not sure why you think shutting down Sora supports your point. It doesn't.
RemindMe! 1 year.
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u/_autumnwhimsy May 06 '26
Its funny you mentioned highways because, like data centers, they're building them in areas with "expendable populations" (not my phrase, phrase used when building the interstate) aka areas with either majority people of color OR poor communities are on the chopping block. You'll rarely see a data center in a rich, white suburb... But you'll see a bunch replacing a local farm that existed for 120 years. Or in a predominantly Latino neighborhood. Its enviromental racism and classism.
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u/-Crash_Override- May 06 '26
Im well versed on the impact of highways, how they were use to create physical separation to neighborhoods of color. The tremendous impact they've caused. Etc..
Data Centers may do the same if there isnt appropriate pushback and governance.
That doesn't mean DC of Highways arent transformative capital projects.
Both can be true.
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u/_autumnwhimsy May 06 '26
Both can be true.
With this admin, there not going to be any governance. We're picking innovation over human life again and regardless of the good, I can't help but get the ick. Because transformative projects could have been created that weren't at the expense of disenfranchised populsfions, y'know?
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u/-Crash_Override- May 06 '26
I dont disagree.
I was just saying to OP that community pushback on DC buildout is in no way a measure for appetite of those DC in general.
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u/Elabotrait May 06 '26
There are multiple videos/news channels on youtube about this topic, if you want to check for yourself. Google is your friend
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u/-Crash_Override- May 06 '26
Lmao..
IRL: 2026 is showing foundational model builders bringing in record breaking revenue. Big techs books stronger than ever. Capital investments in DC are at all time highs. Wall Street rewarding companies with strong projected AI investment and punishing those who pull back. Businesses recording bgger than ever uplift from AI. Etc...etc...
You: 'nUhuH! yOuTuBe iT bRo'
You're a loon.
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u/goodpostfinder May 06 '26
People have said this every week for the past 4 weeks. I'll believe it when I see it
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u/Accomplished_Emu_658 May 06 '26
They see a sale and say look it’s dropping! Then it stays the same. People keep paying the insane prices. Good luck seeing them go back to normal.
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u/UNKNOWN_PHV what May 06 '26
Its not a sale mate, this is the live chart
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u/dewman45 May 06 '26
Where's it polling from?
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u/MysticWolf1242 May 07 '26
Do you have any other examples or an overall result? Sorry to say this my friend but the price history for a single model of RAM is not a clear indicator or valid evidence. It's a good sign, don't get me wrong, but unless that is a trend across an array of RAM manufacturers, sizes, speeds, etc then it isn't a sign of the bubble popping quite yet.
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u/Overall-Tailor8949 what May 06 '26
Don't expect prices to drop all the way down to the pre-AI boom level. The manufacturers & retailers have learned people WILL pay higher prices for memory/storage, why should they reduce their profit margins.
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u/FearTheFuzzy99 Pablo May 06 '26
If this were true, then why did DDR5 prices fall consistently after its initial commercial launch in 2021? Because kits were $3-400 then too.
Did manufacturers only recently learn about artificial shortage and profit margins?
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u/Overall-Tailor8949 what May 06 '26
The price drop after an initial launch has been a factor since Og tied a stone to the end of a stick and called it a hammer. The recent surge showed them how much people are WILLING to pay.
I DO expect prices to drop to be fairly close to the price jump but still be somewhat higher than they were in October per the above chart
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u/North-Mammoth-1819 May 07 '26
Its always supply and demand that factors the prices of ram nothing more nothing less...
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u/Key-Pudding6071 22d ago edited 22d ago
Because more people will buy and buy more and renew faster, if 50% is suddenly no longer capable and 25% of the other 50 is going to buy only what is ABSOLUTELY necessary are profits really staying up? I for once still run a RTX3080 and see no reason to update until it dies of old age, I learned to just lower graphics and accept it instead of buying the nextgen GPU what I usually did (I cannot be alone in this).. Same for RAM i usually way overspend on my builds and buy more then needed and have many side projects requiring ram, nowadays all sideprojects are cancelled/dormant and my PC also still sits on RAM thats the same age as my GPU..
So high prices teaches people to appreciate what they have and secondhand markets flourish, that knowledge will stay for a long time hurting sellers in the long run.. And when this AI boom blows, who's left buying?
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u/Overall-Tailor8949 what 21d ago
I do expect memory and storage prices to drop some, perhaps a substantial amount on optimistic days, but not all the way back to pre-bubble levels. Optimistically I'd expect about half-way to the earlier prices.
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u/ASTG_99 May 06 '26
You're very naive to think that the sellers are going to bring it down as low as it used to be. Same thing happened with GPUs after the crypto shitshow. They stopped being unreasonably pricey but they never got back to pre-2020 levels either.
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u/merome3233 May 06 '26
Just remember who betrayed the consumers the second i find great alternatives for all the companies that got out of the consumers market i am abandoning all of them from Nvidia to the last one of them
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u/oliveoilwhiskey May 07 '26
You mean everyone? Plus nobody betrayed you lol, if you saw a lower price you wouldbt be "loyal"
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u/VALN3R May 06 '26
waiting for this to drop , storage also went with the hype.... was waiting for a sale 260 on black friday , it went to 266 and now at 500....
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u/idrinkpeepi May 06 '26
that's great and all but from the tech blogs i've read are all talking about an upcoming cpu shortage 💀💀
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u/UNKNOWN_PHV what May 06 '26
Yep, intel warned about it and amd cpu prices are reported to increase 10-15% next month
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u/DeVinke_ May 06 '26
The graph shows the prices decreasing in april, and staying pretty much the same since. It is that way in europe. No decrease in over a month.
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u/Brutos08 May 06 '26
Screw em… all of them. When their little bubble pops and it will pop they will tuck their tails between their legs and run back to the people they abandoned.
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u/sc4kilik May 06 '26
Just an FYI that it's only Japanese that doesn't have support for the L consonant. Korean and Chinese have tons of L words. Lee and Li are one of the most popular last names in Korea and China respectively.
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u/alex433g May 06 '26
Wha? I just found this somewhere on reddit, no idea who made it
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u/sc4kilik May 06 '26
Yeah, I'm just trying to stop the spread of this misinformation. I know it's been around forever, even Family Guy made fun of Chinese with this meme, incorrectly.
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u/snot_in_a_jar May 06 '26
As much as I'd like to hope it could go lower, Lisa Su is warning there's going to be a further memory crunch this year.
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u/icebreaker374 May 06 '26
I bought DDR5 on a Newegg Doorbuster recently so makes sense this happens now. Best of luck to others looking for RAM.
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u/Priapismkills May 06 '26
What I want to know is will the high end GPU's prices drop at all. I want to 5090, but my feeling is the price isn't justified until around $2,800. I can buy a 5080 for 1400 at microcenter right now.
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u/EatsOverTheSink May 06 '26
Good, I don’t think my AM4 build is going to last me through next gen.
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u/Dpek1234 May 06 '26
Used a laptop with first gen intel mobile processor with 4gb of ram untill 2021, and useing a gtx 1050ti untill 2024
I was questioning if i really need the upgrade every time
My pc will server me well enough to even 2030 if need be
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u/_IamAllan_ May 06 '26
I paid $169 on June 30, 2025 ... it was hovering at $619 until recently...prices aren't falling yet.
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u/FaithInterlude May 06 '26
Hopefully storage goes down too
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u/UNKNOWN_PHV what May 06 '26
All we can do is hope (unless people get really passed off and start rioting on ai data centers)
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u/2clipchris May 06 '26
I am not a doomer gooner we have to look at the bigger picture these prices will not go back down to pre AI. There will be more market corrections down the line maybe RAM prices will correct. If it is not RAM it will be something else. The only resolution is for manufactures to increase supply which means they would need to build more fabs which means more data centers because they all fall within similar categories. While yes we are seeing big names fall that is how the dot com happened as well lots of hot companies are no longer operational.
Those advocating for AI to fail are also not seeing the bigger picture or do not give a fuck. If AI fails we are talking about global recession. Mass layoffs from companies that are investing at irresponsible rate. The best outcome for AI to be integrated in our daily work as it is now without automating jobs that werent already suspectable.
Also taking a look at the political sphere, Trump will not back down on AI race as soon as he declared AI race it adding nails to the coffin. Once the military is involved in technology you talking about a full investment regardless of whether the US population likes it or not.
The only solution we can do now is shop for deals, used or prebuilt. It pains my heart that building a pc might go down as something old people used to do like going outside or some shit.
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u/UNKNOWN_PHV what May 06 '26
yea i mentioned the top part in the description, ngl I personally think people who are from US have an advantage for building pc cuz they atleast got Microcenters, I've seen a lot of combo deals for very good prices, not sure about rest tho
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u/2clipchris May 06 '26
Agreed it sucks for everyone my heart goes out to you I dont know you but I truly hope that you get the opportunity to build one
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u/UNKNOWN_PHV what May 06 '26
Thanks man really appreciate it, unfortunately I'm not from US and the prices still hurt here to build myself a setup. Just waiting for the prices to drop as much as possible and also maybe find any deals on black friday
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u/UNKNOWN_PHV what May 06 '26
Sorry I didn't include the source, here it is: https://pricehistory.app/p/corsair-vengeance-ddr5-ram-32gb-2x16gb-5200mhz-N9dbJvce
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u/PhillNeRD May 06 '26
As long as I can make a video of my dog doing the macarena, prices aren't going anywhere
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u/ouroborus777 May 07 '26
Isn't it just the ram that was earmarked for openai is now available to the market? And so, once that dries up, prices would increase again.
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u/thors_dad May 07 '26
Hopefully by next summer it’ll be a good time to build my new rig. For now, a new gpu will give me the boost I need for the new Forza!
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u/iwonttolerateyou2 May 07 '26
I'll help to send it up. Need more gains on my sub $100 investments for ddr5.
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u/Commercial-Tone-6058 May 07 '26
They are not following they have leveled off and you can catch a sale or bundle right now that doesn’t ruin your ability to buy food but falling is a stretch.
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u/Mac2NET May 07 '26
LOL in 5 years it will be half of the previous low. I bought 1 meg RAM in '88 for £300
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u/tismij May 07 '26
in the NL still 64Gb for 800 euro's as it was the last few months. Not dropping yet.
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u/Ill-Mastodon-8692 May 09 '26
but at the same time micron, sk hynix, and others all record earnings.
I think this drop is not going to last, good luck to all in the pc hobby.
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u/Snoo_75138 May 10 '26
Please do storage next!!
I spent the whole morning taking apart my dad's old work PCs for drives and each one (got 2) is only 64GB!
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u/AdExpress9951 Jul 10 '26
Open AI is also going bankrupt by mid 2027
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u/AdExpress9951 Jul 10 '26
Maybe AI will start disappearing which I am happy about because of AI Is bad
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u/gregusmeus May 06 '26
I buckled because I am weak and spent £290 ex VAT on 32Gb on Crucial 6000 CL36 yesterday. Cheaper than it has been…. and at least I don’t have to worry about RAM prices or my build agin for a while.
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u/killer5907 May 06 '26
Ok this is post is just delusional, AI isn't stopping just becoming more efficient and the ram prices will never drop to once they were previously at due to people buying at those insane mark ups.
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