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"I've been saving for months to get the Corsair Dominator 64GB CL30 kit," one beleagured PC builder wrote on Reddit. "It was about $280 when I looked," said u/RaidriarT, "Fast forward today on PCPartPicker, they want $547 for the same kit? A nearly 100% increase in a couple months?"

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[–] tabular@lemmy.world 69 points 1 day ago (2 children)

People buying RAM: oh no, what do we do?

People buying GPUs: first time?

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 24 points 22 hours ago

Those are the same people.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What?

You think this is the first ram crunch?

It's not even the first one in this decade...

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, I was aware RAM prices fluctuate.

I've never been so unfortunate when buying larger RAM, or building a new system with a new DDR version.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

They don't real fluctuate, it's more oscillating.

Sometimes it's "normal" but due to a wide range of issues that can change quickly and stay that way for months because everyone waits till prices go down. So as they go down, people stop waiting,