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

Rilot said:
I'm kind of in the same position. Running a 7950x3D with 128GB and a 5080. Laptop is a Legion Pro 7i with an Ultra 9 275HX, 64GB, and a 5080. I can weather this storm for a couple of years.
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I have a 9950x3d and was planning on getting another 64GB for a total of 128GB and was to upgrade just before the new year, unfortunately that extra 64GB is going to cost me £1000 lol. I will have to swallow the cost as I need the extra ram. I originally paid £275.99 for that first 64GB and now £1000, my brain still cant adjust to this almost arbitrary increase in price. 2 sticks of ram cost as much as a RTX 5080:confused:

I hate AI:cry:
 
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sadly i feel this will have such a knock on effect to everything.

  • from laptops and desktops new purchase and new builds
  • windows 10 to 11 migrations, unless moving to linux or other os - requiring new hardware because MS Reasons
  • even game development "do we build for future spec or for what people can actually play right now and hardware thats 5-8 years old to make a profit"
  • corporate environments if their contracts are not due for renewal in next 2years should be ok other wise expect a price hick for them fixed for 3years as example.
  • let alone if some ones RAM dies and starts blue screening. - those with 32gb or more ram still arent insulted from the problem, it can still fail.
  • those people which actively need to upgrade because they are using old hardware and cant upgrade.
  • it might encourage developers to be more recourse conscientious.

i'm actually thinking i have enough older game and content i havent played to keep my old i5 gen 4, 16gb ddr4 Its DDR3, 1650 Low Profile (in an optiplex 7010) busy for the next year or so.

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kar said:
I think, until AI goes pop we're all going to have to make do with what we got!

Going to make Graphics card prices truly mad in the next cycle.
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The one sliver lining with the GPU price bubble in 2020 was once crypto values burst and demand for hardware evaporated there was a bunch of cheap 2nd hand consumer grade GPU's flooding the market. When the AI bubble goes pop were going to left with server grade RAM products that have little use or demand outside of the data centre.
 
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Only just catching up with these ram prices. I thought the 300 I paid for mine a years or so ago was crazy. Prices were in free fall at the time.

Unbelievable prices.
 
There was an interesting article doing the rounds on the weekend talking about the 'AI bubble' and (VC types) trying to rather equate it to a wild fire. Typically bushfires are destructive but necessary to get rid of literally dead wood and spread seed.

In our case, the sheer mountain of Cap-Ex going into silicon manufacture will have a net longer term benefit when the fire peters out and everything has to rebuild.

ceodinner.substack.com

The AI Wildfire Is Coming. It's Going to be Very Painful and Incredibly Healthy.

AI won’t crash—it will burn. Like every tech cycle, the fire will clear the brush, redistribute talent, and leave infrastructure to power what comes next. The question is: what kind of plant are you?
ceodinner.substack.com ceodinner.substack.com

It's an interesting read if you have 15 minutes spare.
 
One of my friends used an interesting analogy for the AI bubble.

Two business men are walking down the road when one of them spots a dog turd on the pavement. Man A says to man B, "I'll give you £500k if you eat that dog turd". Man B thinks this is a great deal and eats the turd, Man A gives him the £500k.
A short while later they come across another dog turd and this time man B says to man A "I'll give you £500k if you eat that dog turd". Man A thinks this is a great deal and is keen to get back to his original position. He duly eats the turd and man B pays him the £500k.
A short while later they look at each other and man A says "Did we just eat dog turd for no reason?". Man B says "No, we added £1 million to the economy". They walk off happy.
 
Rilot said:
One of my friends used an interesting analogy for the AI bubble.

Two business men are walking down the road when one of them spots a dog turd on the pavement. Man A says to man B, "I'll give you £500k if you eat that dog turd". Man B thinks this is a great deal and eats the turd, Man A gives him the £500k.
A short while later they come across another dog turd and this time man B says to man A "I'll give you £500k if you eat that dog turd". Man A thinks this is a great deal and is keen to get back to his original position. He duly eats the turd and man B pays him the £500k.
A short while later they look at each other and man A says "Did we just eat dog turd for no reason?". Man B says "No, we added £1 million to the economy". They walk off happy.
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LOL at least we have funny jokes about the AI bubble, this is depressing times. What is happening is that there is a break down of regulations in place to prevent or dampen financial collusion, oligopoly and profiteering. What we get is dog and pony show's and exorbitant prices not only for computer hardware but in America electricity prices have risen considerably because of AI and their datacentres. I am all for AI and future technology but the last few years in the tech industry has shown it really need some kind of oversight.

lets not even talk about where open AI is going to get the projected 500 billion before 2030 to become profitable, I will say this, the tech guys are amazing at pitching their worth. Companies are raising hundred's of billions in short time like its nothing.
 
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kar said:
There was an interesting article doing the rounds on the weekend talking about the 'AI bubble' and (VC types) trying to rather equate it to a wild fire. Typically bushfires are destructive but necessary to get rid of literally dead wood and spread seed.

In our case, the sheer mountain of Cap-Ex going into silicon manufacture will have a net longer term benefit when the fire peters out and everything has to rebuild.

ceodinner.substack.com

The AI Wildfire Is Coming. It's Going to be Very Painful and Incredibly Healthy.

AI won’t crash—it will burn. Like every tech cycle, the fire will clear the brush, redistribute talent, and leave infrastructure to power what comes next. The question is: what kind of plant are you?
ceodinner.substack.com ceodinner.substack.com

It's an interesting read if you have 15 minutes spare.
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Good article but I had to groan when after however many words talking about dead brush for the dotcom bubble they recognise that isn't the situation we're in right now, thus enter, the 'canopy fire' :D
 
LostCorpse said:
sadly i feel this will have such a knock on effect to everything.

  • from laptops and desktops new purchase and new builds
  • windows 10 to 11 migrations, unless moving to linux or other os - requiring new hardware because MS Reasons
  • even game development "do we build for future spec or for what people can actually play right now and hardware thats 5-8 years old to make a profit"
  • corporate environments if their contracts are not due for renewal in next 2years should be ok other wise expect a price hick for them fixed for 3years as example.
  • let alone if some ones RAM dies and starts blue screening. - those with 32gb or more ram still arent insulted from the problem, it can still fail.
  • those people which actively need to upgrade because they are using old hardware and cant upgrade.
  • it might encourage developers to be more recourse conscientious.

i'm actually thinking i have enough older game and content i havent played to keep my old i5 gen 4, 16gb ddr4, 1650 busy for the next year or so.
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I am sure you can find a second had 5700x and motherboard for quite cheap as you already have ddr4 ram and rx 9070xt or 9070 and you have decent system there, if you don't want to spend that then rx 9060xt is still decent performer and 16GB is still adequate for nearly most games apart from that mess star citizen that has cost $900 million to develop till date :eek:
 
AMDPower said:
I am sure you can find a second had 5700x and motherboard for quite cheap as you already have ddr4 ram and rx 9070xt or 9070 and you have decent system there, if you don't want to spend that then rx 9060xt is still decent performer and 16GB is still adequate for nearly most games apart from that mess star citizen that has cost $900 million to develop till date :eek:
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i think you were looking to quote someone else?

i am looking at purchasing an RX 9070XT though and placed an order for ram DDR5 else were but realistically im expecting the pre-order to be cancelled as its meant to be sip January/February

at the moment really better to go for a DDR4 system were prices are sensible at the moment.

I'm team red this year, i'm not paying nvidia prices for graphics been looking to move for a while anyway.

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@AMDPower i checked my system its a DDR3 system. not 4
for context im using an old Dell Optiplex 7010 Small form factor machine (8years old)
it really needs a complete replacement. From Case, PSU (300w), CPU 2core 2 thread, 16gb DDR3, the low profile variant of the 1650 (noisy at load..).

in all fairness its done me proud and doing most of what i want.
now with the extended windows 10 support which is adding breathing room

£240 for
Crucial Pro DDR5 RAM 32GB Kit (2x16GB) 6000MHz CL36 - CP2K16G60C36U5B
at current trends seems reasonable.. assuming it ships
 
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Whoa... so... I can drop to 128GB and have enough money for Christmas...

Do I sell or 'hodl the investment' lol. The world is going a bit mad eh.
 
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