wow a year long wait for a mere ram, what times have now come to
I’m glad to see someone who makes sense. It’s frustrating when people here mock you and then dm you saying they’re building a PC for their brother or that they’re students with limited budgets. If you want to gift someone something, it’s best to buy it with your own money, not mine. Why would I pay for your relatives?
I’ve been a student myself, and I never forced others to sell for low prices because I didn’t have the money. Either pay the market price or buy whatever you can afford.
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I’m not mocking, I’m just waiting for the new pricing to be normalized, I’m ready to transition to agriculture.
Or maybe finally fulfill my off-grid solar dream.
Imagine that, 20kW of solar funded by DDR4.
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Friends, Indians and Countrymen,
Micron is shutting down Crucial Brand. Micron will no longer sell RAM (and SSD) to retail consumers. RAM prices will probably rise 50% after this announcement
May be the beginning of the end…
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They probably arent, many people are saying that we will have 1-2+ year disruption as existing capacity has been shifted towards AI demand. Nand guys had to deal with too much supply just few years back, so they are being more careful and/or they took inspiration from how Nvidia is behaving and raising prices and reducing supply.
But i also find it weird that gpu prices are getting lower in US (9070xt at 600$). These companies were price gouging at every opportunity. Why sell for lower when prices will get higher soon ?
The calm before the the storm? THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM - Cambridge English Dictionary
There’s definitely something strange going on. Q4 has always been the strongest for pc hardware sales so it looks like they’re doing their best to get as much as possible — but why this year vs all the others before?
GN put out a video the other day, every GPU came down in price since six months ago, except for the 5090.
If anything, this is reminiscent of a couple decades ago, where prices did actually come down during the holiday season.
Need an economics professor to explain this one, but instinctively I’d say this is a sign of a good economy?
Maybe nature is finally healing post-covid, post-mining, pre-ai.
Is healing really the word when MSRP = the Black Friday discounted price?
I guess it’s the one season where the immediate revenue potential is worth not overcharging for a brief period. If manufacturing costs have been reined in somewhat by now, then the MSRP may also be more achievable now, although prices are already confirmed to be rising in the immediate future (memory market is an obvious culprit, but unclear if there are other issues too).
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well, we haven’t seen msrp in over 5 years so…it’s a start?
After the 30 series, GPUs have been widely available at MSRP (other than the 4090 and 5090, and pricing at that tier has not normalised). There were supply issues on the Nvidia side with the 50 series at launch, but I don’t think availability has been an issue for months now.
It’s only the 9070 XT whose recent MSRP availability has been notable because that MSRP was generally accepted as having been ‘fake’ to begin with.
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That’s entirely possible, I haven’t followed GPU pricing closely. I’m just repeating what GN said in their video when they started tracking in-stock average pricing in the US.
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Its because they have a huge inventory lying around and inventory cost is a thing to consider. Jay2cents said on his last video that microcenter alone has a room full of GPU. Again its not like they are selling it below MSRP, the price is +/- MSRP
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“Memory crisis and sky-high DRAM prices could run past 2028 as Samsung and SK Hynix opt to ‘minimize the risk of oversupply’”
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Honestly I just check local listings and average it out. Prices bounce all over the place. If someone’s selling DDR4 for new-retail money I just skip immediately.
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But where are the new retail units? Can’t find anything anymore.
Gone under ground
I always wanted to try those things but it was cheaper to sell the sodimm and buy a long-dimm haha
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