RAMageddon knock on effects

[Mr-White]

Anyone know if the RAM and storage prices are affecting sales of other components such as motherboards, PSUs and CPUs and is it also affecting things like game sales too ?

I had a £3k budget start of the year for a new monitor and a new gaming rig. I ended up buying neither nor any new games. Is this a noticeable trend or are people just sucking up the costs ?

 

[BUDFORCE]

I don't know, but I bought an AMD 5800x3d recently on the re release, basically resigned myself to the fact I'm not doing a platform upgrade any time soon.

At some point in the next 6 months I'm probably going buy a new monitor.

Otherwise, unless anything I have breaks I'm not planning on buying any pc hardware for a while.

 

[Zefan]

From my pov anything that doesn't need to be tied to ddr5 is more expensive than it would be otherwise, and stuff that is tied to using ddr5 is cheaper than it would be otherwise. Not sure about generic stuff like games, peripherals/more platform agnostic stuff not tied to a certain ram type.

 

[something daft already!!]

I'm glad I did my upgrade about a year or so ago. The RAM I bought for £99 is now £400.

 

[ED209]

I'm glad I did my upgrade about a year or so ago. The RAM I bought for £99 is now £400.

Same here, I did my upgrade in December 2024, ran was £89.99 for 32GB 6000mhz C30 which is now £500.

Also know people who have put off upgrading their rig due to storage and ram prices being insane

 

[Phemo]

Yeah I was going to go for an AM5 system as I’m still on a 5700X with 64GB of DDR4. But with what it would cost me to go for 64GB of DDR5 I’m out of the game for the foreseeable.

I had seriously considered picking up 64GB of DDR5 just to keep on standby a year or so ago when it would’ve been somewhere around £150, perhaps even cheaper, I can’t remember any more. I so wish I had.

 

[Rroff]

Component prices are all over the place - some stuff like CPUs they seemed to be trying to keep prices down a bit possibly to try and keep sales going to offset the cost of a system a bit i.e. stuff like the 270K relatively keenly priced, though conversely the prices for upgrading older system parts seem to be creeping up.

Ironically I think the price of stuff like RAM will in the longer run impact the market for the people who would be using AI, etc. reducing the market for the AI, etc. companies who are part of the reason for the price increases.