DRAM Prices Surge 172% YoY with No Signs of Slowing Down

littlepuppy said:
Thanks gibbo.

The only issue I have with this - if I do that - I preordered when prices were not mental and if I now change I’m doubling my cost for an in stock kit. So sort of thinking wait it out?!
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If you let me know what alternative in stock kit you’d like I can see what’s possible as we’re sat on a lot of old stock so can probably sort it at a price they were when you ordered. Let me know what kit you ordered and price you paid and I’m sure we can sort an equivalent kit at same price and get your order despatched.

We’re stopping taking pre orders as we expect most manufacturers to not ship any for potentially months and maybe never as they will simply kill off all the fancy SKUs for a reduced more simple range to boost production. A case of if you can only make 1000 available a month it’s best to do that in my 2-3 flavours instead of the usual 30+ flavours.
 
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I’ve been completely out of the loop on all things computing for most of the year due to work etc. just had a friend ask me to build his son a PC and holy moly, was not expecting 32gb DDR5 to be £300! Ouch!
 
£734.95 for Black C30 64GB Corsair Vengeance from elsewhere :cry:
No-one is going to fall for that amount of greed.
 
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Gibbo said:
If you let me know what alternative in stock kit you’d like I can see what’s possible as we’re sat on a lot of old stock so can probably sort it at a price they were when you ordered. Let me know what kit you ordered and price you paid and I’m sure we can sort an equivalent kit at same price and get your order despatched.

We’re stopping taking pre orders as we expect most manufacturers to not ship any for potentially months and maybe never as they will simply kill off all the fancy SKUs for a reduced more simple range to boost production. A case of if you can only make 1000 available a month it’s best to do that in my 2-3 flavours instead of the usual 30+ flavours.
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Gibbo that’s amazing - the same kit is slightly faster so I would be prepared to pay a bit more - just not 100 percent!

I ordered the 7200 in black

The 7600 is in stock now and the 7200 just says out of stock ( from pre order )



If you can do something that would be tremendous.

PS I paid 269.99 for my original kit - I think at the time the above was around 299 to 329 - from memory - can’t remember exactly. That would be acceptable to me.
 
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Gibbo said:
Looks like Amazon have have cheap ram:


32GB 5600MHz for £149, 64G for £319, literally half the cost of replenishment cost.
Shipment time 6-7 months, must be taking thousands of orders......
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Kinda hope this means DDR5 prices will be more chill in a year's time and 2027 they'll get similarly low like a few months ago (£300 for 64GB 8000 MT/s with low latency would be nice). But yeah ridiculous otherwise, and god knows if Sam Altman being a greedy because he wanted to kill the AI Competition by buying gobble tons of Memory.
 
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littlepuppy said:
Gibbo that’s amazing - the same kit is slightly faster so I would be prepared to pay a bit more - just not 100 percent!

I ordered the 7200 in black

The 7600 is in stock now and the 7200 just says out of stock ( from pre order )



If you can do something that would be tremendous.

PS I paid 269.99 for my original kit - I think at the time the above was around 299 to 329 - from memory - can’t remember exactly. That would be acceptable to me.
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Dropped you a PM.
 
Dangerman1337 said:
Kinda hope this means DDR5 prices will be more chill in a year's time and 2027 they'll get similarly low like a few months ago (£300 for 64GB 8000 MT/s with low latency would be nice). But yeah ridiculous otherwise, and god knows if Sam Altman being a greedy because he wanted to kill the AI Competition by buying gobble tons of Memory.
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Doubt we will see those lows again, and probably more increases due before we see a slight retraction of prices.
Best we could ever hope to see now would be 16G kits for £100, 32G for £200 and 64G for £400 in the future, but probably not likely in the next 6-12 months. Won't be getting any better any time soon and more increases incoming I suspect.
 
Gibbo said:
Doubt we will see those lows again, and probably more increases due before we see a slight retraction of prices.
Best we could ever hope to see now would be 16G kits for £100, 32G for £200 and 64G for £400 in the future, but probably not likely in the next 6-12 months. Won't be getting any better any time soon and more increases incoming I suspect.
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Yeah true, I can see DRAM Companies phasing out 6000 MT/s in favour of 8000+ and marking it up accordingly.

Probably hope the looming AI bubble being popped (we're due for another big Economic Downturn next year, 18 year Economic/Business/Land Cycle) will correct some of it. Hope end of 2027 things will be much better, maybe not as good few months ago but close enough.
 
Gibbo said:
Doubt we will see those lows again, and probably more increases due before we see a slight retraction of prices.
Best we could ever hope to see now would be 16G kits for £100, 32G for £200 and 64G for £400 in the future, but probably not likely in the next 6-12 months. Won't be getting any better any time soon and more increases incoming I suspect.
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Oh my, seems to be more grim than I imagined.
So, as always it seems, you might not always realise how good it was, until good is no longer there...!!!
 
If i was buying a complete new PC then a couple of hundred on the RAM wouldnt put me off. however are these prices going to continue to rise... if 32gb in a month or 2 is 500-600... Are there any chinese ram makers that will jump on the PC gaming market to fill the gap...
 
Kurgen said:
@Gibbo are cpu and motherboard prices likley to remain stable?
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Intel are increasing CPU pricing next month.
AMD have made no comment.

Motherboards not seen or heard about any increases.

AMD have confirmed GPU price increases and more incoming.
NVIDIA have not confirmed anything, but rumours are price increases are coming Q1 next year.

In short pray you already have memory / SSD and if you must BUY IT NOW, also get your GPU purchased now if on a sales offer, as bound to increase.

Other stuff like motherboards, cases, coolers all looks fine for now.
 
NAND will be next IMO to go higher - although not as much as the demand is not as intense as for memory - but NAND will likely trend higher as well. My personal view - CPU / MB / PSU will also be broadly flat - i have heard rumours Nvidia may cut some GPU SKU's at lower end where they have a high amount of mem relative to the GPU processing capability.

But how this plays out is anyone's guess - if the AI bubble pops - there could be a glut but I don't see that happening next 6 - 12 months.
 
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