Amazon right now 700+ for two sticks of 32GB DDR5. Crazy
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2026
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32GB of DDR4 3200Mhz cost me $115 in October, now the listing is out of stock and says $392. 240% increase.
Me to my 10 year old gaming pc: "I guess it'll be another couple of years, buddy."
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I can't believe how lucky I was to upgrade my desktop before the surge. This is an outrage!
Me too, I added more than I could use because today's gaming rig is tomorrow's server. Now I'm debating if I should sell a few sticks but who knows when, if ever, I'll be able to replace them.
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Increasing RAM (from 16) and SSD space (from .5TB) on a laptop now is easily +$1k and up.
Apple users:
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Im on Linux and it requires just as much memory as it did in 2018. No problem here.
I upgraded mine from 16GB to 32GB two years ago beacuse RAM was cheap. I didn't really need it, and have probably never hit 16GB usage anyway.
Meanwhile my work Windows laptop uses 16GB at idle after first login.
Windows has always been wasteful computing, and everyone just pays for it.
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Ram is the new Bitcoin.
I was about to say "atleast this is a physical thing not some completely made-up digital thing with no real value"
Then I realized these prices are partially based on speculation... So I guess it's still just a made up digital thingy"