DDR4 prices have nearly tripled in just two months

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Tiflotin@reddit

It's over 10 years old. Wouldn't surprise me if we see ddr6 in a year or two if they keep up the previous lifecycles.

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Randommaggy@reddit

All my DDR4 machines have as much memory as they can fit already.

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Plank_With_A_Nail_In@reddit

Lol at the replies say "Yeah I already got all of 1/4 or 1/2 of what is supported".

AM4 can fir 128GB not 32 or 64.

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Strazdas1@reddit

4 sticks are 4 sticks and noones going to bother upgrading to new DDR4 32 GB sticks.

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Randommaggy@reddit

My ITX machine can run at most 64GB, my hot spare laptop can run 40GB at most (32GB Sodimm+ 8 GB Soldered).

Depending on your usecase 64GB can very well be the max you can reasonably use due to worse timing and frequency when running with interleaved channels.

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Capable-Silver-7436@reddit

yeah the wife and i got 32GB in our gaming rigs. by the time we need more even the 5800x3d we got wont be good enough so we'll be upgrading to probably am6 o rsomething then

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You realise that the CPU, especially X3D ones, will most likely NEVER not be good enough, since games hardly use the CPU these days. Also the 5700X3D only just came out last year, and the difference between it and 7800X3D is about 20%.

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Thrashy@reddit

Same -- I've got 64GB of fast Samsung B-die in my desktop and 128GB of less pricey stuff in my VM host. I'm good for as long as I hold on to either system.

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grumble11@reddit

DDR6 is coming early next year, will spend a year in datacenter and then the year following will come to client, so expect sometime in 2027. It looks like quite an upgrade from DDR5 with lower latency, integrated error checking and significantly higher eventual bandwidth. It looks to also possibly perform better at low voltages.

CPU performance will improve, but it won't be drastic as they don't generally use the bandwidth of the existing DDR. It will be impacted more by latency, and it's possible that improved latency (this one's more speculative, latency figures are pretty up in the air) can help with CPUs. DDR6 is also potentially the rise of CAMM2 to attach it to the motherboard, which is an improved system.

Where I think it'll help a lot will be with APUs or iGPUs which are currently very bandwidth and latency constrained which limits their performance. Strix Halo is the most powerful x86 one and had to implement a lot of custom cache and a fancy memory controller to get there. The M-series uses a very fancy memory controller and on package memory to do the same.

DDR6 APU solutions, will potentially really compete the XX50 series discrete chips. It may compete with the XX60 series as well, though you start running into issues around the cost of the APU and so on. Higher end chips like the XX70 series are likely to remain dedicated due to the cost and the difficulty of putting a huge APU chip together, though you never know.

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mito@reddit

CAMM2 to attach it to the motherboard, which is an improved system

...debatable.

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Strazdas1@reddit

Depends on an angle you take. for upgradability is a downgrade. for signal integrity its undeniable upgrade.

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Vb_33@reddit

Where I think it'll help a lot will be with APUs or iGPUs which are currently very bandwidth and latency constrained which limits their performance. Strix Halo is the most powerful x86 one and had to implement a lot of custom cache and a fancy memory controller to get there. The M-series uses a very fancy memory controller and on package memory to do the same.

It won't be enough, it's never enough. APUs were memory bound since the first one (llano) in 2011, that had a VLIW5 GPU and used DDR3. Generations later we get the much anticipated DDR4 a blessing for APUs and guess what they were still memory bound, then came DDR5 and you get the point. DDR6 will help but bandwidth demands keep increasing for much bigger dGPUs and that need trickles down to igpus as well.

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grumble11@reddit

It will, no doubt but a doubling of bandwidth would still be huge.

For example, strix halo is about 256GB/s. The 4090 is about 1,000. The 4080 is about 720. If you got that 256 to 512, then you get to 4070 bandwidth. It won’t be practical to have an APU at 4080 or 4090 levels, but a desktop 4070 level? That would be huge and it could happen in 3 years.

Given you could use the on board cache tricks to help with bandwidth still, it isn’t crazy to imagine a 4070ti integrated chip someday. In three years maybe that isn’t so great, but I think it would be.

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Puzzleheaded-Suit-67@reddit

Wait isnt the ryzen ai max already 4070 performance?

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Strazdas1@reddit

more like the unreleased 4050.

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Numerous_Row_7533@reddit

Laptop 4070

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Plank_With_A_Nail_In@reddit

Desktop market is going to get really weird with AI focused CPU's needing soldered RAM.

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Strazdas1@reddit

DDR6 is CAMM2 so it wont be an issue.

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grumble11@reddit

They can use CAMM2 do get something ‘close enough’ to probably make soldered ram not needed for a lot of applications. Combine with DDR6 and you’ll likely be okay.

Frankly I think and heavy AI will still be cloud based. It’s just too computationally intensive in my opinion

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Vb_33@reddit

Yes but the point of local AI is not to be "heavy AI".

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Nice_Database_9684@reddit

That integrated error checking, will that be full ECC, as opposed to the half ECC DDR5 has?

For my home server it’s always such a balance finding a power efficient CPU that supports full ECC. I ended up not buying anything and sticking with my current Xeon.

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CrzyJek@reddit

You will more than likely see DDR6 with the AM6 platform.

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Prajwalone@reddit

DDR6 with AM6 along with GTA 6 /s

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BringerOfNuance@reddit

With Nvidia 60 series

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Strazdas1@reddit

So 2027 then?

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Matthijsvdweerd@reddit

AMD said AM5 is supported till atleast 2027. If AMD decides to launch AM6 directly after, that means that the cycle continues.

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Vb_33@reddit

Zen 6 is 2026 so Zen 7 should be late 2027 at the earliest. I expect AMD to support AM5 beyond 2027 just like they still launched am4 CPUs in 2025.

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Leather-Society1404@reddit

Worked IT at a company that designed, monitored, and refurbished gas turbines and blades for the power industry. They had several windows NT machine controlling 3 of the huge milling machines, with IDE drives. It was over a mil to get the "new" stuff. We managed to image the machines and ran them as vm's on a modern pc, w/backups. If i remember w/initially had a bunch of issues w/the serial cables and had to figure a workaround.

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SiteWhole7575@reddit

Same thing happened with DDR, then DDR2 when it moved on to DDR3. Not surprised in the least…

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TheSaifman@reddit

Hey this is how my company works also.

We keep increasing the price of our old products until no one wants it anymore. Surprisingly some people keep buying the old ones. Then it can be phased out when there's no demand.

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BlazinAzn38@reddit

Hey sometimes it’s cheaper to pay a 5X premium on an old part cost rather than have to cough up 100x on a new machine

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Blueberryburntpie@reddit

I’ve seen a Windows NT 3.0 computer still in use at my workplace. IDE hard drives and all of that.

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BlazinAzn38@reddit

My first job out of college 7-8 years ago had two vital pieces of equipment. Both ran on windows 98. The risk of them losing uptime in order upgrade them while they were still functioning wasn’t worth the risk so it was basically “ride this until it dies then we’ll figure it out”

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account312@reddit

That's a crazy way to run a business. The machine will go down. To not plan for it in advance if it's a critical system is irresponsible.

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Background_Sea273@reddit

I know a couple of small businesses still have their main application in Clipper on Dos 6.22

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Lucie-Goosey@reddit

Humans eh? Lol

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PseudonymIncognito@reddit

Reminds me of when. I was in grad school and had to find a new computer of a piece of lab equipment that used an ISA controller card. There was another instrument that couldn't use anything newer that Windows 98 because one of the drivers for it relied on a privilege escalation but for certain aspects of its functionality and the manufacturer wasn't going to rearchitecture the whole thing until it was absolutely necessary.

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quyksilver@reddit

My friend's optics lab uses a sensor that's hooked up to a windows XP laptop. They literally have a stack of old laptops there for when the current one breaks.

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florin9doi@reddit

No, you haven't, because it doesn't exist. NT started from 3.1

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Plank_With_A_Nail_In@reddit

Why did you even included "during the dotcom bubble" let alone bold it? Just write the year 2000 if that's what you meant.

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eleven010@reddit

May I ask which highly regulated industry this is for? Perhaps medical or financial services?

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einmaldrin_alleshin@reddit

I tried getting a RAM upgrade for my first computer when it was around four years old. I looked up what type of memory was inside, looked it up, and realized that I could just buy a new computer for that much money.

It was a Pentium 4 with RAMBUS, a product that existed for a year or so.

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Strazdas1@reddit

pre-DDR memory landscape was a wild west.

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Latter-Dress9429@reddit

For x86 it was pretty standard. You had SDRAM for Pentium though Pentium III (Later they added it to the 486 and eventually the P4) as well as the AMD K6 chips. EDO RAM was usually on boards with 486 or lower processors, and the 486 itself had FPM RAM as well. Mind you there were quite a few memory types vying for the top spot but eventually DDR won.

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Proud_Purchase_8394@reddit

I have some RAMBUS in a drawer, I’ll sell it to you for slightly less than a new computer lol

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SiteWhole7575@reddit

I totally get that… I’ve paid some rather extortionate prices for “New Old Stock” of certain electronics until it came to the point where there wasn’t any left and it was finally time to upgrade my stuff.

When repairing is actually more expensive than just replacing everything it becomes a bit of a conundrum…

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AssCrackBanditHunter@reddit

This. Demand and supply dry up so those who need it have to pay a premium

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Aron_International@reddit

DDR4 production is completely stopping this year. Meanwhile the GOAT AMD are still supporting am4 with the release for the 5500x3d at the end of the summer. It's the perfect storm

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Strazdas1@reddit

releasing a cut down bin from failed chips is hardly supporting.

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mrtnbaker01@reddit

They are newly released, just like the 5700X3D was, I might as well make a consumer claim against them, asking for refund on my motherboard and 5700X3D only just purchased 6 months ago. Regardless how you look at things, the release dates on 5700X3D still states 2024, how is it already obsolete?

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Strazdas1@reddit

does not matter when they are released, they are just salvaged production errors.

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mokkat@reddit

I decided to stay on AM4. Got a 5700X3D while the price was low and the 2x16gb 3600mhz kit was 35€.

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mrtnbaker01@reddit

So did I, got a new MSI 550 with 5700X3D, bunch of MSI Spatiums on sale, and was waiting for the 9060XT 16GB to come out and drop in price. Wish I got the 64GB of RAM too. I just thought I was wasting money since most other components I purchased all dropped in price... except for the RAM.

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Pijany_Matematyk767@reddit

> rapidly widening the gap between DDR4 and DDR5 prices.

Wouldnt an increase in DDR4 prices make the gap between DDR4 and DDR5 pricing smaller, not larger? Or is DDR4 somehow more expensive than DDR5 now?

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TDYDave2@reddit

DDR5 prices are down to what DDR4 was selling 6-9 months ago while DDR4 prices have doubled, so yes DDR4 is now twice the price of DDR5.

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Plank_With_A_Nail_In@reddit

Meanwhile back in the real world.

64Gb DDR4 for £90

64GB DDR5 @ £151

No idea why people lie about so easily checked things.

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mrtnbaker01@reddit

If only you realised that is a 16GB module for £90... but Amazon has it wrongly advertised as 64GB.

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TDYDave2@reddit

There are many truths in the world.
For years the US had some of the best pricing on computer parts.
But now we have a different reality.
Back in October '24 I purchased this memory for $117, which is now going for $210.
The top recommended DDR5 32GB kit is currently going for $120.
Reddit has a strong US user base, so it very much is the 'real' Reddit world.

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Plank_With_A_Nail_In@reddit

Cool story dude.

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full_of_excuses@reddit

Well, firstly, websites change based on the region you're connecting from. That said, when I go to newegg right now and do a "32g ddr4" search compared to a "32g ddr5" search, the cheapest ddr4 (2x16) is $55, and the cheapest ddr5 (2x16) is $105. So ddr5 is half the price of ddr4 in that particular size, today, on that particular website :)

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TDYDave2@reddit

Not made up, I linked the prices I saw.
I was quite surprised to find prices here in Thailand were now lower than the US.
That wasn't the case when I bought the DDR4 kit back in October, which is why I ordered from the US at the time. Experience says the US is a leading indicator, so the rest of the world will likely soon see prices change also.
But we now have some unusual market conditions, so traditional patterns may not apply.

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NetJnkie@reddit

Because the consumer market is much smaller than the B2B market. And has stock sitting there waiting. Go look at the enterprise market for RAM. I can barely quote DDR4 for “older” systems these days.

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Plank_With_A_Nail_In@reddit

Goal posts moved.

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NetJnkie@reddit

That's not moving goalposts. It's explaining different markets and what drives them.

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shroddy@reddit

In Germany, DDR4 is still cheaper by quite a bit.

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TDYDave2@reddit

It is much cheaper here in Thailand now than in the US.
Back in October when I did my upgrade, it was cheaper to order from the US.

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krilltucky@reddit

in South Africa, 2x16 DDR5 is nearly double 2x16 DDR4 and that's not even the cheapest DDR4 3200 vs the cheapest ddr5 4800.

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popop143@reddit

Tbf there are a ton of cheap used DDR4 kits, and RAM is one of the most resilient pc components. Like I sold my 4x8GB kit for half the price of a new kit last year when I "upgraded" to a 2x16GB kit instead.

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Kursem_v2@reddit

my DDR4 RAM somehow broke last year after 5 years of usage. luckily it has "lifetime" warranty support and they did send me a new one.

I wish SSDs also has lifetime warranty. mine already at 81% health after 6 years.

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Strazdas1@reddit

so by that metric your SSD will die after 30 years of usage?

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mrtnbaker01@reddit

Actually when a SSD starts going below 80%, it will start deteriorating much much faster. Sometimes it can just go to 0% in on day, or the controller will go. Either way, if you don't start backing up you are done.

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_Galas@reddit

RAM is actually one of the most fragile PC components.

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marx2k@reddit

Quite honestly, being into computers since the 80s... 16GB of memory for $24 is insanely low to me.

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SausageEggCheese@reddit

I remember wanting to get a new computer when Windows 95 came out (all I had was an old Dos-only computer).

At the time 8 MB RAM was standard, but I wanted to go with 16 MB of RAM to future proof it. If the model I ended up buying only had 8 MB, the plan was to buy an extra 8 MB. IIRC, the 8 MB stick would have been around $350.

And that was in 1995 money, so you're talking around $700-$750 in today's money.

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mrtnbaker01@reddit

forget the RAM, do you remember what 3DFX cards used to cost? And when you could have 2 in "SLI", man that was the pinnacle of gaming... and yes, I worked my butt off doing paper rounds, local shop etc to save up and buy 2 of them. Thing is, I still have them somewhere.

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full_of_excuses@reddit

some of us are old enough to have had less than 640k of ram, when gates famously said computers would never need more than that ;)

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net3x@reddit

sure for older generation is good. i'd say 30-35$ per 16GB is fair price value espeically for DDR4.

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bugleyman@reddit

I clearly remember $50 a MEGAbyte. 🙂

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marx2k@reddit

You don't want to know what I paid for 512k ram expansion on my Amiga 500

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sushimane91@reddit

I do actually

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marx2k@reddit

https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/X1672.99A-E

This says $180. I feel like I paid more, but maybe not.

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EpixKilla@reddit

I mean, inflation is a thing, and the buying power of money was a lot more back then than it is today
So that $180 could actually be more than what you paid (somehow)

anyways im just here to see why I gotta pay upwards of $300 for DDR4 3200Mhz 2x32GB Laptop Memory, and I have found my answer

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Standard_Ad_4392@reddit

same. UNREAL

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mrtnbaker01@reddit

Quite annoying, as the 5700X3D only just came out not even a year ago. In my case, I have the MSI 550, 5700X3D case etc, just never got around to do the pc for the kids. Also wanted to pair it with a Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB version, so that and the RAM were the last things I was going to get. Now I have a useless motherboard and CPU.

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Rosso@reddit

Good thing I got my 32GBs for like 40 euros last year

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TheDreamWoken@reddit

I should had bought more now they are over 100

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Adventurous-Slip9269@reddit

I'm just building my pc little by little, started first by buying my 2x16 3200 ram like 1,5 month ago for 44 bucks, that was an unknowingly good decision, the market sucks, but this Prime Day have seen a few good deals on pc parts, notably my cpu 14400f for 103 bucks, and tuf b760 for 118 bucks. I'm not sure it'll get much better than that, I still have my monitor and gpu to buy, the most expensive pieces of my build.

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gnarlysnowleopard@reddit

same

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InnerAd118@reddit

You can tell this post is a little dated.. first page of "16gb ram ddr4"

Gets you a few 16gb kits a little or a little worse than a single stick..

One 16gb stick for 19.99 plus 4.41 (effectively 26 when tax included)

And another 16gb stick for 29.99 with free delivery (effectively 32). Obviously there's better deals, but you'll have to look deeper into eBay. It's weird though that comparatively laptop ddr4 is way more reasonably priced.

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Green0Photon@reddit

A 128GB kit I got to finally get my 5950x working on non buggy non mismatched 128GB jumped from $235 to $459. And it's just the classic Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200-C18, nothing fancy.

Holy shit.

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ppr_ppr@reddit

Same for me, went from 260-280€ to 520€. I guess I won't update

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BrightCandle@reddit

The stopping of production of DDR4 feels a bit premature to me. We have very recently had releases of CPUs for AM4 and there are a lot of small computers that are utilising it. In the past the transitions have been relatively rapid once prices on the new technology stabilised. I think things are a bit different now due to the general lack of progress in performance we see due to reduced rate of silicon process improvements.

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Latter-Dress9429@reddit

It was, so many companies started producing it again as demand has been high and not waning as fast as initially predicted.

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nevyn28@reddit

The prices just caught me off guard, 1 of my gskill dimms died (purchased end of 2022), and warranty is rubbish with them since I live in Australia. Looking for Kingston, or Crucial instead, but the prices have jumped significantly since June.
It seems like only yesterday that AMD released yet another AM4 cpu on the platform that everyone said was dead years ago. It looks like ram prices will be the real death of it.

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DerpSenpai@reddit

Chinese competitors ran them out of the market

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REV2939@reddit

Then prices would still be down due to said suppliers filling the void. But no, this happens when all generations eventually reach the sunset of their life cycle, just as we saw with DDR3, DDR2, DDR, SDRAM, etc.

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Strazdas1@reddit

I think you dont understand how that works. Dump a lot of cheap products to make competition leave the market, then jack the price up when you are the only supplier. Chinese manufacturers have successfully utilized this tactic many times.

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REV2939@reddit

I don't think you realize this is not the case as this happens every generation once demand dies out.

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Strazdas1@reddit

Yes this happened many times with many different hardware.

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_HOG_@reddit

This is not what happened at all.

The three biggest DDR4 makers - Samsung, SKHynix, and Micron all announced they will discontinue DDR4 production by the end of 2025.

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Zanerax@reddit

And then immediately backed out of the DDR4 market themselves

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Strazdas1@reddit

the major supplies stopped production, but the smaller ones will continue producing it. That being said, the AM4 releases are really just checkbox ticking, they arent actually new arch releases, just some renamed products.

Also people who uses AM4 already have AM4 system and that means almost no chance of RAM upgrade. New builds will go for AM5.

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p90rushb@reddit

I just bought AM4 yesterday. Need new guts for the living room TV computer and didn't want to spend a lot. The 2x16 DDR was bottom-of-the-barrel Silicon Power brand at $50. Been several years since I had a DDR4 purchase so I can't tell if that is good or bad. Seems cheap to me?

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pmth@reddit

Yeah that’s about right, seems like retail prices haven’t actually been affected. There might be enough stock still out there that between that and the used market, prices won’t rise at all.

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Puzzleheaded-Suit-67@reddit

Yea i got the same used at 25$

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imaginary_num6er@reddit

AM4 VEGA drivers were already EOL by AMD the same quarter as AMD selling new APUs or laptop chips with them. AMD does not care whether you can actually use the chips that they are dumping

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Creative-Expert8086@reddit

But Zen3 are still been EIS.

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Concillian@reddit

As someone that works for a company that makes computer hardware, unless it's a "gaming" company, what happens at the 'you and me consumer' level doesn't matter AT ALL. The people buying memory at Newegg or Amazon is likely in the noise... a fraction of a percent of their DRAM sales. All that matters is what is happening B2B demand.

So if you want to know why this is happening, you have to ask what the DDR4 demand is for phones, servers, laptops, and random other stuff that has RAM in it like routers, 'smart devices', etc... When that demand falls off sharply, then the retail prices need to increase, because they were previously subsidized by the large volume of B2B sales that brought efficiency of scale.

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TheBraveGallade@reddit

Its probably the suppliers realising that if they switch to ddr5 they'll make more money

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Sadukar09@reddit

Its probably the suppliers realising that if they switch to ddr5 they'll make more money

DDR4: gottem

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Rockmandash12@reddit

The Chinese market started dumping DDR4 at the end of last year so all the bigger players are getting out of the market. It's way too soon though, there's a lot of people and industries that haven't made the switch to DDR5 yet.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/chinese-ddr4-producers-are-undercutting-south-korean-rivals-pricing-by-50-percent

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Meowz1945@reddit

Speciality of our good RAM chip manufacturers. Been caught price fixing what ... just like 4 times? Pffff

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NBPEL@reddit

Capitalism literally

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FlakyParticular5964@reddit

donde vivo ya subio de 600 a 900 la ram 16gb pero aun con ese precio incluso hay de 16gb en 1k mx, y aun asi se me hace rentable para am4 con cpus apus a 2200 ,1800 un 4600g q comprarme un am5 q de minimo cuesta 3500 pesos el cpu mas barato un 8600g y un cpu 7600 esta en 4k cuando hay mobos de am4 por 1k a520 y las ram am5 no bajan de 1200 mx las de 16gb

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trainbrain27@reddit

Your best bet when it gets too high is 'old' computers that are being thrown out.

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Locastor@reddit

Glad I skipped DDR4 completely.

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Ok-Fondant-6998@reddit

Ah, the DRAM cartel strikes again?
Oh wait, it's just DDR5 becoming the new standard, mixed with tariffs(China also makes RAM modules). AM5 released in 2022 so its been 24+ months so it makes sense why they'd slow down manufcaturing.
Hopefully the DDR4 price hike means they're finally shifting focus to DDR5, and those prices can start to drop for once.

Hopefully CAMM2 also sees an uptick in production. I want to see any of the major players adopt it, even in desktop. Like a mother board with 2 CAMM slots in front and 2 in the back for larger RAM capacity. Or 4 front 4 back if the manufacturing allows it.

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BlueSiriusStar@reddit

Feels like a conspiracy against CAMM2.

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TDYDave2@reddit

CAMM2 will likely not be common until the next gen chipsets from Intel/AMD are release with support for DDR6.

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Strazdas1@reddit

i dont expect CAMM2 to be anything but experimental for DDR5. For DDR6 in consumer space it will be mandatory as per DDR6 standard. In server space youll still have DIMMs.

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SunnyCloudyRainy@reddit

It is CXMT doing some of the most unfathomable business decisions imo

Entering a market nearing EOL, driving other players in the market out with low prices to the point it can be considered dumping, and stopping the production because "it is not profitable"

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Strazdas1@reddit

Big manufacturers stopped manufacturing DDR4 (post about this last month here) so the remaining producers might not be making as much as demand is.

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nanogenesis@reddit

Good DDR4 kits have been MIA for a very long time. DDR4 died the moment CL14 3200 was harder to find.

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psiphre@reddit

should not be surprising

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SigsOp@reddit

Right I checked the 64 GB kit I got for my homserver, 160$ cad to nearly 300$ lol, i found one at the previous price soon after localy and snatch it so I could get 128GB and never think anout that again

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WhachYoWanOnDat@reddit

Supply demand. Less supply, higher price. Production is winding down

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nezeta@reddit

It seems that the DDR4 market has entirely been handed over to Taiwan's Nanya and some Chinese vendors. I expect we'll eventually see Chinese companies producing HBM for AI chips after building up capabilities in DDR production.

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Creative-Expert8086@reddit

They do, Some of Huawei Ascend Chips run HBM

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Creative-Expert8086@reddit

AM4 and LGA1700 still dominate the mid to entry-level market today and heavily rely on DDR4. It's crazy for major producers to end-of-life DDR4 this early—it essentially hands over a huge market to Chinese manufacturers.

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Saneless@reddit

Just checked some ram I bought for 47 and 85 last month. 75 and 99 now.

Finally buying stuff because you think it might be expensive later paid off

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ColdAngle1151@reddit

Not seen any bump in prices on the used market. Quite the opposite when it comes to ECC ram at least.

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dynamitejim@reddit

64GB kit I got a month ago for $110 is now $135 on Amazon.

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blackbalt89@reddit

I talk a lot of shit about G.Skill because I have never had a kit last longer than 18 months but their lifetime warranty has already paid off with the 32GB kit they just replaced last month. :)

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MyHonestViews@reddit

I bought a 2x16gb 3600 CL18 for $62.99 just last week and today it's $88.99. This is Canadian pricing. Glad I got them before the sticker shock.

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estusflaskplus5@reddit

wow, i decided to buy a 2x32gb set 2 years ago on a whim. maybe it was a good call.

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chandleya@reddit

I’m sitting on 4x 32GB DDR4 SODIMMs. HODL

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Capable-Silver-7436@reddit

yeah they stopped making it and people looking for one last upgrade on the ddr4 platforms are grabbing it.

In a year or two it'll go down like ddr, ddr2, and ddr3 did at theri end.

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niknarcotic@reddit

Really glad I bought my 128GB kit in february lmao

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shroddy@reddit

Wake me up when DDR5 is cheaper than DDR4

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scardeal@reddit

Welp. There goes building a cheap AI box...

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Soulphie@reddit

the odd thing is you can get new ddr 4 at 3200 mhz 2x8gb for 22€, cheapest its ever been, the high prices havent hit germany yet

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shtoops@reddit

OEMs no longer use ddr4. No reason to keep production running.

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reallynotnick@reddit

I figured this was coming so I ended up buying a used 32GB 4000Mhz kit for $50 a couple months ago, that way I never have to worry aboutRAM again until I upgrade my CPU.

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billythygoat@reddit

cool, I just bought some ddr4 32gb used like a month and half ago so I can sell my 16 gb used now haha

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privaterbok@reddit

Nice time to sell used D4 and upgrade to D5

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propagandhi45@reddit

1 dollar cheaper for the 16gb kit I bought a year ago.

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binge-worthy-gamer@reddit

Tripled would be a 300% increase, not 40%

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only_r3ad_the_titl3@reddit

Tripled -> 200% increase

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binge-worthy-gamer@reddit

Fixed

Still not 40%

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Shadow647@reddit

200% if we're being smartass over here :))

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defchris@reddit

40% in the last week, tripled in two months.

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got-trunks@reddit

Sad, I really don't need more RAM but enjoy having cheap options haha.

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