I’m in the exact opposite position… hoarding bits on the cheap, all I need is ram and psu but ram now costs more than I paid for everything else put together and scavenging sources have dried up completely
Last I looked — which was, admittedly, a few days ago — Google Shopping still has some retailers that have stock and haven’t yet jacked their price up. Mostly dinky little companies.
Never heard of these guys, can’t vouch for their reputability, but they have 2x32GB of DDR5 for $159.99 listed as being in stock.
The University of Virginia Bookstore — which I imagine is reputable — appears to be selling 2x32GB DDR5 for $245.95, and it looks like one can buy as a guest, so one presumably doesn’t need to be a University of Virginia student or staff.
EDIT: I would advise, though, that if you plan to get memory in the near future, that you’re probably better-off getting it ASAP, since I’m sure that there are going to be scalpers combing over all those small retailers before too long if they haven’t gotten to someone yet.
You are an absolute legend and I cannot overstate how much I appreciate this. Unfortunately I am broke as hell and scavenging was not hyperbole. My parts list so far is an intel 11700 from a Dell a hospital was throwing out, a b560 motherboard for ~$40, a friend’s old 1080ti, 2tb 2.5" ssd from a dead laptop, pretty nice wood paneled case for another ~$40 (this one was a steal). 16gb ddr4 was expensive to me at ~$40 and I was patiently waiting to either stumble across some or for some money to fall into my lap. At this point it seems like that’s increasingly unlikely, but hey! I found 10 bags of bagels and a nice coat yesterday, that’s a comeup :)
No kidding! I postponed replacing my old Sandybridge in 2020 because of pandemic prices and then jumped on building my new rig in early 2024 when prices were the lowest I’d seen in some time. Also, grabbing a couple more sticks of 32 Gb DDR4 for my homelab this spring now seems like it was a good choice.
So glad I built my computer earlier this year. RAM prices now are triple what I paid for.
I’m in the exact opposite position… hoarding bits on the cheap, all I need is ram and psu but ram now costs more than I paid for everything else put together and scavenging sources have dried up completely
Last I looked — which was, admittedly, a few days ago — Google Shopping still has some retailers that have stock and haven’t yet jacked their price up. Mostly dinky little companies.
https://shopping.google.com/
searches
https://hssl.us/silicon-power-64gb-ddr5-5600-mhz-udimm-desktop-memory-kit-2-x-32gb-5600-mhz-clock-speed-sp064gblvu560fd2ad/
Never heard of these guys, can’t vouch for their reputability, but they have 2x32GB of DDR5 for $159.99 listed as being in stock.
The University of Virginia Bookstore — which I imagine is reputable — appears to be selling 2x32GB DDR5 for $245.95, and it looks like one can buy as a guest, so one presumably doesn’t need to be a University of Virginia student or staff.
https://www.uvabookstores.com/product/829320?quantity=1
EDIT: I would advise, though, that if you plan to get memory in the near future, that you’re probably better-off getting it ASAP, since I’m sure that there are going to be scalpers combing over all those small retailers before too long if they haven’t gotten to someone yet.
You are an absolute legend and I cannot overstate how much I appreciate this. Unfortunately I am broke as hell and scavenging was not hyperbole. My parts list so far is an intel 11700 from a Dell a hospital was throwing out, a b560 motherboard for ~$40, a friend’s old 1080ti, 2tb 2.5" ssd from a dead laptop, pretty nice wood paneled case for another ~$40 (this one was a steal). 16gb ddr4 was expensive to me at ~$40 and I was patiently waiting to either stumble across some or for some money to fall into my lap. At this point it seems like that’s increasingly unlikely, but hey! I found 10 bags of bagels and a nice coat yesterday, that’s a comeup :)
No kidding! I postponed replacing my old Sandybridge in 2020 because of pandemic prices and then jumped on building my new rig in early 2024 when prices were the lowest I’d seen in some time. Also, grabbing a couple more sticks of 32 Gb DDR4 for my homelab this spring now seems like it was a good choice.