Is the cost of RAM going up everywhere?
About 12 months ago, I bought Kingston Fury 8GB DDR4-3200 modules for £15 (UKP) a pop. Now it translates through to £33 (the 8GB module isn't available on its own from my normal supplier, so I divided the price of the 16GB pack by 2).
I've checked around other UK suppliers and there definitely seems to be a trend. There's talk about the demand for AI driving up prices of NAND (which I'm seeing too, just not as drastic), but I would have thought that DDR4 memory chips wouldn't have been affected by that. I checked DDR5 prices this morning in the hope that the rising DDR4 prices were a sign that it was time to move my baseline PC builds onto DDR5 tech, but no, they're higher still.
I've checked around other UK suppliers and there definitely seems to be a trend. There's talk about the demand for AI driving up prices of NAND (which I'm seeing too, just not as drastic), but I would have thought that DDR4 memory chips wouldn't have been affected by that. I checked DDR5 prices this morning in the hope that the rising DDR4 prices were a sign that it was time to move my baseline PC builds onto DDR5 tech, but no, they're higher still.
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