Quick question about RAM prices

[Luke]

I was about to do an AM5 upgrade when the prices increased so I waited to see if they'd drop, and over a year later I'm still typing on my AM4 system with no upgrade in sight.

 

[dcsarge]

Each time a hardware price spike happens it never seems to return to previous levels. High RAM prices are here to stay

Yep, they have seen the profit margins they can achieve and will want to maintain it or close to it.

 

[Armadillo]

I think ram will drop back eventually, maybe not to historic lows, but to £130 or so for 32GB.

It's not like GPUs during mining where people would pay whatever because you could always make it and more back, there's a limit to what most people will pay. We've already seen motherboard sales collapse because people don't want to pay £300 for ram. We are seeing deals where you buy a gpu and get a power supply chucked in, that's not happening unless people aint biting.

Once supply catches up or the arse falls out of AI, price will have to come down if they want to sell anything.

 

[niggyg]

I think ram will drop back eventually, maybe not to historic lows, but to £130 or so for 32GB.

It's not like GPUs during mining where people would pay whatever because you could always make it and more back, there's a limit to what most people will pay. We've already seen motherboard sales collapse because people don't want to pay £300 for ram. We are seeing deals where you buy a gpu and get a power supply chucked in, that's not happening unless people aint biting.

Once supply catches up or the arse falls out of AI, price will have to come down if they want to sell anything.

Do you think the arse will fall out of AI? I think it's got a lot more legs, we are just scratching the surface.

 

[Armadillo]

Do you think the arse will fall out of AI? I think it's got a lot more legs, we are just scratching the surface.

Eventually.

Billions is being pumped into it and for what? Where's the end product that can make that back? From what I read a lot of these companies aren't even making profit, tokens for AI use are less than it actually costs to do whatever. For some reason these companies think "we have X users, when it's unlimited uses for Y per month, they will all stay when we raise the price to what it actually costs". At some point investors will want the money back.

 

[dvinell]

Back in the old days (April 2024) I upgraded the desktop to 128GB DDR4 for £350.

I was looking into boosting my laptop last week, and omg, what has happened.
There is no way I am paying £500 for 64GB of SODIMMS.
Instead I'll just use a remote connection to the desktop.