Comment by Scene_Cast2

5 hours ago

This is the PCPartPicker chart that I monitor: https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/#ram.ddr5.5600.... - $900 for 2x32GB, used to be $200 a year ago.

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ChiperSoft  4 hours ago

Yesterday I did a price check on the PC I built two years ago. It went from $2300 to $3650. The bulk of that increase was that the ram went from $210 to $940. Its now more expensive than when DDR5 was new.

  • wing-_-nuts  1 hour ago

    The value of my desktop pc has almost doubled, my ps5 is worth ~ $150 more than I bought it years ago.

    It's gotten to the point where nvidia doesn't even bother to report their gaming revenue anymore. It's a clear sign that we're back to the bad old days of pc gaming being a 'prosumer' hobby, but don't worry I'm sure nvidia and their ilk are salivating at the idea of making pc gaming into a streaming stadia like solution that you pay for monthly

    • Sohcahtoa82  32 minutes ago

      https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Sohcahtoa82/saved/n76zkL

      I think I paid a total of around $5,500 for the current components of my PC. Hard to say for sure since my PC has been a Ship of Theseus for over 30 years and started as a 486. The link merely reflects its current state.

      At one point, PCPartPicker was showing my PC as worth $11,000. It's now at $7,200 without including the RAM or PSU. That would put it at $9,000.

      > It's a clear sign that we're back to the bad old days of pc gaming being a 'prosumer' hobby

      Yup.

      I think it's especially bad since the gap between budget-grade and mid-grade feels like it's gotten wide. If you wanna play the latest AAA games and not feel like you need to upgrade in 3 years, you can't settle for the budget grade unless you're still gaming at 1080p.

      I wouldn't recommend spending under $3,000 for a gaming PC these days, and that's just an absurd price.

    • davey48016  36 minutes ago

      Nvidia already has a PC gaming streaming service that integrates with your steam library and a couple other launchers' libraries.

  • shepherdjerred  2 hours ago

    Those are rookie numbers

    https://stocks.sjer.red/

    • zargon  1 hour ago

      I thought I read that Samsung SATA SSDs were discontinued, but apparently that was a rumor and Sansung has denied it. I wonder why they exceed NVMe prices. They're the only SATA drives left with DRAM. I guess they could just be milking that fact.

    • tosti  14 minutes ago

      Well boo-hoo. It's about time more people got to know what it's like not to be on the bleeding edge. I've always had second-hand computers and only once bought myself a new laptop, the asus EeePC after the price dropped.

      Ten years from now I'll get to watch inception in 4K.

  • christoph  3 hours ago

    I bought a 5090 12 months ago, just checked - that’s basically up 50%! I used to joke i’d retire on all the old tech in my loft, everyday now it feels less like a joke!

snkline  4 hours ago

The memory in the PC I put together early last year is now worth about three times the total cost of all the parts I used to build the thing. It is absolutely crazy.

  • expedition32  1 hour ago

    You could get a 990pro 2 terabyte Samsung SSD for €150 just last year. Memory had become a commodity product.

    • nradov  1 hour ago

      Memory is still a commodity product, in that there isn't a huge amount of difference between vendors selling products that comply with a certain technical standard. Sometimes the prices of commodities (wheat, silver, crude oil, etc) go way up when supply and demand get out of balance.

fullstop  4 hours ago

I regret not building the PC when I was looking at it. It's not a money thing, at the end of the day, but I can't bring myself to do it.

I had it all priced out, but a bunch of birthdays in my family were coming up and I felt like I shouldn't buy something for myself if it's really their time.

My old laptop will have to cut it for a while. :-)