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Re:AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren'... by SirMaster on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @10:11AM (#46513250)
Building a PC price is not double lol and RAM is nowhere near up 6-8x

https://www.bestbuy.com/product/crucial-pro-overclocking-32g...

That 32GB for $274 was not $34-$45 in the summer. RAM is up like 3x, but RAM is one of the cheaper parts of the PC.

RAM that was $100 in summer is like $300 now when I look. So that's an extra $200 maybe $300, on say a $1500 build.

GPUs are not up, they are still at MSRP:

https://www.bestbuy.com/product/asus-prime-nvidia-geforce-rt...

SSDs are up marginally, maybe $50 more lets say for a 2TB.

So from summer you are looking at like a $250-350 increase on say a $1500 PC

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Re:AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren'... by kalap_ur on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @12:12PM (#46515135)
I paid $150 for a 64GB DDR5 in Jan 2025. That is today $830 representing 5.5x.
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Re:AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren'... by SirMaster on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @12:15PM (#46515194)
What are the specs of the kit?
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Re:AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren'... by arcanemachiner on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @11:17AM (#46514274)
Here is some proper data:

https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/

The same site also has price trends for CPUs, video cards, etc.

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Re:AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren'... by SirMaster on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @11:22AM (#46514352)
It's OK data, but the average can be skewed high by some vastly inflated options that nobody cares about.

Most people will pick a ram spec and buy whatever is the cheapest kit for that spec at the time.

I think the best data view would be what is the cheapest available kit for each spec over time rather than the average price of each kit.

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Re:AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren'... by Jeremy1026 on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @12:09PM (#46515057)
Wouldn't historical data also be inflated by the gold plated Monster branded RAM sticks too though? Making the now to then comparison, well, comparable.
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Re:AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren'... by happymellon on Thursday January 08, 2026 @07:10AM (#46540149)
Not sure I agree with this.

Something that skewed the market in the past, which is unrelated the the reasons the market is skewed now doesn't make a compelling comparison.

The reasons would lead to differing levels of market skew.

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Re:AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren'... by TrackerFF on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @10:53AM (#46513879)
Where I live, a pair of Kingston FURY Beast Black RGB DDR5 6000MHz 32GB (2x16GB) has literally gone up from what is equivalent to $125 this summer, to currently selling for what is equivalent to $850.

Obviously this depends on where you live.

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Re:AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren'... by SirMaster on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @11:20AM (#46514323)
I think looking at the same exact product from the same retailer is not really the full story. Personally I would accept looking at the same exact spec ram across retailers in your region. Maybe its still a lot more for you, but in the US it's not as bad as I see people say.

Realistically people normally buy whatever ram is the cheapest for the specs they want at the time of purchase, so that's the realistic cost increase IMO.

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Re:AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren'... by slavik81 on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @11:23AM (#46514372)
Corsair Vengeance 128 GB (2 x 64 GB) DDR5-6400. $339 in Sept 2025. $1599 in Jan 3026. 4.7x increase. https://pcpartpicker.com/product/LPvscf/corsair-vengeance-12...

I cancelled my plans to upgrade my workstation, as the price of 256 GB of RAM became ridiculous.

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Re:AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren'... by Sander_Marechal on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @10:33AM (#46513562)
The MRSP for those GPUs is already inflated. There's a reason Nvidia is going to start making more RTX 3060 GPUs. Because people (and system builders) can't afford 40XX and 50XX GPUs.
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