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

LostCorpse said:
im actually considering it :D as the same ram is listed for over 500 notes elsewear! seen some sites lsited for over 12k but i might just be the out of stock price.
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:D
If you do, don't forget my commission ;)
Or alternatively, just give me the spare room in your new villa :P
 
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Brutos said:
I can see the wider impact on PC hardware vendors (cooling,cases,PSU, etc) who will now be looking at significantly lower sales if as expected consumers stop refreshing their builds and new users move to consoles for gaming instead due to these high costs.
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im guessing they will be already gearing up to build the dumb terminals or whatever it is your going to be calling them for running our cloud rented computer with im guessing they will be doing the gearing up to make and sell those when it happens as i type this reply
i know this end game is a while away as such right now but id be shocked if they are not already working on this behind the scenes so when it happens they at least have the bits to sell us that we will be buying and using
 
Brutos said:
I can see the wider impact on PC hardware vendors (cooling,cases,PSU, etc) who will now be looking at significantly lower sales if as expected consumers stop refreshing their builds and new users move to consoles for gaming instead due to these high costs.
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Yep. Proper put off having to pay 4 times as much for RAM. I personally would feel rammed if I paid these prices.
 
mark 11:11 said:
im guessing they will be already gearing up to build the dumb terminals or whatever it is your going to be calling them for running our cloud rented computer with im guessing they will be doing the gearing up to make and sell those when it happens as i type this reply
i know this end game is a while away as such right now but id be shocked if they are not already working on this behind the scenes so when it happens they at least have the bits to sell us that we will be buying and using
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Can you imagine that. They sell you a dumb terminal and your whole pc is in the cloud. Lol. **** that.

If prices stay as they are I will just keep my current hardware, get a steam deck 2 when it is out and that will be that.
 
yes laptops , consoles , handhelds will be where it`s at going forwards just like 2020 all over again. Personally i like the good old fashion board games with out all the tech.
 
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shamus21 said:
yes laptops , consoles , handhelds will be where it`s at going forwards just like 2020 all over again. Personally i like the good old fashion board games with out all the tech.
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Yep. We love board games. Got loads of them, many still unopened as not got round to playing them yet.

There are so many things via for my attention, but one only has so much time. If manufacturers/retailers want to **** about with pricing, it is not ideal, but also huge problem for me :D
 
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shamus21 said:
yes laptops , consoles , handhelds will be where it`s at going forwards just like 2020 all over again.
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that doesnt mean games arent reliant on cloud though, you could sson find games are subscription based for full features.
we already see some of that at the moment, so dont think handheld and consoles are the way forward.
"Allways on connectons requirements"

your old tech may soon be gold as a woking PC or hand held with offline game support.


i to have board games unopened, and know were some gaming cafes are or considering meetups.
 
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do we think its mostly just gaming they are going to try and push us all onto the cloud with or computing in general?
i really cant see my music making efforts working out at all well using cloud computing style setup as the latency is
going to be way too much to be able to play an instrument cleanly and accurately enough well not with the internet
connection im usually using atm. way too much latency to be able to play tightly enough as it stands right now........
im guessing this is just going to mean all the pro studios will be paying trough the nose for high end internet services
and having to just deal with terrible latency and thus a really bad end product and a much harder more stressful
experience in actual use and in the process leaving us armatures that just do it at home for our own amusement
basically up the creek without a paddle type thing. I guess my new machine once its up and running I need to make
the decision shes staying for the long term no big upgrade in a couple of years i need to keep her running as long as I
physically can I guess
 
mark 11:11 said:
do we think its mostly just gaming they are going to try and push us all onto the cloud with or computing in general?
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I'd say computing in general, aren't services like Office 365 and modern Adobe apps already cloud based?

Easier to harvest your data/feed into the AI models that way too, or at least, less controversial or visible to the user.

Not sure yet what impact there will be on mass market office machines though, since I'd assume they will still get priority access to parts versus DIY/retail.
 
true and they are also using much lower end hardware well some are anyway
looks like il be hanging onto my one day legacy am5 pc as still in service museum piece one day then sad times :-/
 
Looks like OEM builders will now ship PCs without ram

What a **** show, you go to a PC builder they sell you a PC that can't even boot windows because it has no ram
 
Space Monkey said:
I see some PC shops in Japan have stopped taking orders now due to the RAM prices etc...

Once the snowball starts rolling!
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So many were quick to dismiss the doom and gloom, but the price was only the start of the badness. It’s physically not being able to get RAM that’s going to cause the real problems.
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
So many were quick to dismiss the doom and gloom, but the price was only the start of the badness. It’s physically not being able to get RAM that’s going to cause the real problems.
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Agreed. I'm sure that the shockwave of this is going to hit hard in 2026. GPU prices increase across the board; NVIDIA kill off their mid range 16 GB cards; AMD may do the same. RAM in smartphones is going to half at best, quarter even; sales of PCs collapse; car component shortages (remember that one a few years ago). It's not going to be a fun ride if you had any plans of buying anything that needs RAM in 2026.
 
aaronyuri said:
Agreed. I'm sure that the shockwave of this is going to hit hard in 2026. GPU prices increase across the board; NVIDIA kill off their mid range 16 GB cards; AMD may do the same. RAM in smartphones is going to half at best, quarter even; sales of PCs collapse; car component shortages (remember that one a few years ago). It's not going to be a fun ride if you had any plans of buying anything that needs RAM in 2026.
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There is the potential of bigger issues in other areas that require chips / wafer etc . It will be a very interesting year to watch how events unfold.
 
aaronyuri said:
Agreed. I'm sure that the shockwave of this is going to hit hard in 2026. GPU prices increase across the board; NVIDIA kill off their mid range 16 GB cards; AMD may do the same. RAM in smartphones is going to half at best, quarter even; sales of PCs collapse; car component shortages (remember that one a few years ago). It's not going to be a fun ride if you had any plans of buying anything that needs RAM in 2026.
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rumours are NVidia is set to reduce GPU production by 40% next year and would not surprise me AMD is going to do likewise. GPU prices are going to go through the roof if this is true and CPU sales could tank for both companies. This could affect PC sales substantially for few years, the whole PC market is going to be turned upside down.

Steve is not happy that's for sure :D
 
AMDPower said:
rumours are NVidia is set to reduce GPU production by 40% next year and would not surprise me AMD is going to do likewise. GPU prices are going to go through the roof if this is true and CPU sales could tank for both companies. This could affect PC sales substantially for few years, the whole PC market is going to be turned upside down.

Steve is not happy that's for sure :D
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They can keep them.
 
AMDPower said:
rumours are NVidia is set to reduce GPU production by 40% next year and would not surprise me AMD is going to do likewise. GPU prices are going to go through the roof if this is true and CPU sales could tank for both companies. This could affect PC sales substantially for few years, the whole PC market is going to be turned upside down.

Steve is not happy that's for sure :D
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yer that was the video i was referencing earlier. but didnt link it due to the unhappyness :D
hes really unhappy :D
big shift in com;uters over next few years thats for sure. OCUK will likely pull back on various projects also
 
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