Associate
- Joined
- 19 May 2011
- Posts
- 27
I waited too long and should have bought last week. Kits I'm looking at are now £200+. It's insane out there.
DRAM Prices Surge 172% YoY with No Signs of Slowing Down
- Thread starter Nelly
- Start date
Bloody hell, that RAM seems to be going up £50 per day. I wish I bought another 64GB earlier now. Guess 64GB its going to be for a while.my
DOMINATOR® PLATINUM RGB 64GB (2x32GB) DDR5 DRAM 6000MT/s CL30 AMD EXPO & Intel XMP Memory Kit — Grey
is now £900and I was planning on buying another set, I can make do with 64gb. Will wait for prices to drop in few years time. I have a feeling this is going to last a long time as many companies AI and Non AI are going to be rushing to buy wafers now to secure future supply. Companies like, Sony, Xbox(microsoft), dell, Lenovo, hp, ect , might all be rushing to make deals, if this happens then thing could get even worse. I hope not but I have come to expect the worst with pc related stuff.
my
DOMINATOR® PLATINUM RGB 64GB (2x32GB) DDR5 DRAM 6000MT/s CL30 AMD EXPO & Intel XMP Memory Kit — Grey
is now £900
To think I begrudged paying £300 for the FE kit of that when I wanted 64gb, just looked and it's now £920
Associate
- Joined
- 25 Nov 2025
- Posts
- 2
- Location
- UK
Hello, ordered Friday, price has increased since. For piece of mind has there been some official comment about honouring prices? Thanks in advance.
If you ordered an in stock item, you should get it any day.
If you pre-ordered an item, we have no ETA could be upto three month wait.
Associate
- Joined
- 25 Nov 2025
- Posts
- 2
- Location
- UK
Thank you sir.
Deleted member 280263
Deleted member 280263
That's a very nice suit, Mr Takagi. It would be a shame to ruin it.
Ram I bought for
Had to upgrade my home insurance cover for my PC as it's now above the significantly above the 5k single item limit!
Now $2339 :-O
Had to upgrade my home insurance cover for my PC as it's now above the significantly above the 5k single item limit!
TechPowerUP: Read full storyTechPowerUp | Posted: 26 November 2025 said:Global DRAM Revenue Jumps 30.9% in 3Q25, Micron's Market Share Climbs by 3.7 Percentage Points
TrendForce's latest research shows that significant increases in conventional DRAM contract prices, higher bit shipments, and growing HBM volumes drove the global DRAM industry revenue to US$41.4 billion in 3Q25, marking a strong 30.9% QoQ growth.
Looking ahead to Q4 2025, DRAM suppliers' inventories are almost depleted, and growth in bit shipments will decrease substantially. Regarding pricing, CSPs continue to be relatively flexible with procurement costs, which causes other applications to also increase their prices to secure supply. Consequently, contract prices for both advanced and legacy nodes, as well as across all major applications, are anticipated to increase rapidly. TrendForce predicts that conventional DRAM contract prices will rise by 45-50% QoQ, and total contract prices (including DRAM and HBM) will increase by 50-55%.
Source: TrendForce
Last edited:
$40 billion per quarter? So maybe $160 billion per year.
Well, at that rate my earlier estimate of current gen DRAM fabs (circa $250 billion), would pay for itself in 2 years or so? Not that $300 billion of infrastructure can just magic itself in that timeframe.
While currently all three have said they have no big plans to increase production, there is no honour amount thieves so if one could they would enjoy these high prices.
Also, they have to be careful that the PRC players aren't able to ramp up their production and gain significant market share.
Nah, they'd just ban them from importing to protect profits.
Soldato
- Joined
- 17 Jun 2005
- Posts
- 6,515
- Location
- Near Brighton
I've been considering moving to 9800X3D for some time, guess I wont bother for some time now that RAM has gone silly high price wise. I'll make do with my current CPU
Micron might be able to, the other two less so.
Hence my earlier comment that the Koreans might be reluctant to go for the jugular when prices were low and Micron's efficiency is worse: Samsung and Hynix might reason that Micron would quickly run to Uncle Sam.
Caporegime
- Joined
- 9 Nov 2009
- Posts
- 25,910
- Location
- Planet Earth
Imagine if all those sanctions on Chinese NAND and DRAM manufacturers wasn't there,we would have far more supply on the market.
Associate
- Joined
- 10 Sep 2006
- Posts
- 2,009
- Location
- UK
And here was me flirting with the idea of upgrading to 64GB. 
2026 is going to be the worst year in PC market since I can remember. The only time prices were so crazy was most likely in 80's lol. The prices of everything has skyrocketed and I have a feeling we are not over the worst.
if the console companies can keep the cost down which they most probably can by ordering bulk then I don't see the point of PC gaming for most people anymore, might has well buy a ps5 pro for £600 and you get reliability and graphics not far from pc because most of these games are made for consoles in the first place, just the ram for you pc cost almost the price of a ps5 base console. Sony still releasing games for the PS4 and they look decent enough for most average folks, that is almost 15 years after release.
Where I think the console companies will really make money is if they allowed to install window or linux as dual boot on their system, then you get the best of both worlds. Since the consoles are all practically using pc hardware, this will open them up to compete with pc even more, you get the best of both worlds, you get a reliability of console and flexibility of pc. I believe this is the direction next X box magnus is taking and spurred on with valves steam machine. The only thing they need to think about is how to upgrade the hard drive space more than RAM. I am sure they can think around that easily and even leave a spot for those who want to upgrade their ram. They can do all this with minimal cost increase, its crazy nobody as attempted this yet.
the pc market I see becoming something only for hardcore enthusiasts or those with specific performance requirements. I could be totally wrong but this is definitely one direction.
if the console companies can keep the cost down which they most probably can by ordering bulk then I don't see the point of PC gaming for most people anymore, might has well buy a ps5 pro for £600 and you get reliability and graphics not far from pc because most of these games are made for consoles in the first place, just the ram for you pc cost almost the price of a ps5 base console. Sony still releasing games for the PS4 and they look decent enough for most average folks, that is almost 15 years after release.
Where I think the console companies will really make money is if they allowed to install window or linux as dual boot on their system, then you get the best of both worlds. Since the consoles are all practically using pc hardware, this will open them up to compete with pc even more, you get the best of both worlds, you get a reliability of console and flexibility of pc. I believe this is the direction next X box magnus is taking and spurred on with valves steam machine. The only thing they need to think about is how to upgrade the hard drive space more than RAM. I am sure they can think around that easily and even leave a spot for those who want to upgrade their ram. They can do all this with minimal cost increase, its crazy nobody as attempted this yet.
the pc market I see becoming something only for hardcore enthusiasts or those with specific performance requirements. I could be totally wrong but this is definitely one direction.
Remember the days back then when all deign studios / news media office's were being broken into and all the Apple Mac`s being taken a part and having the memory chip stolen .