Dont think, just buy DDR5 ram is either not in stock or extremely expensive so if you need ram this maybe your best value option.
Next cheapest CORSAIR Vengeance DDR5 32GB 5200MHz CL40 is $227 on ebay
CamelCamelCamel.
This is a bad deal? Really? what do you call this exact same ram from centercom selling for $359 then?
https://www.centrecom.com.au/corsair-vengeance-32gb-2x16gb-d…
anyways its selling out fast.. Only 5 left in stock (more on the way).
Just HODL and never buy anything
If you need to buy DDR5 ram today there is next no store selling it for under $200 :)… its not fear mongering its just fact.
@vid_ghost: Like I said
There are times for good deals
I just dislike how you're painting this deal to be good due to a supposed scarcity and getting people to pile on it. Eww.
when your good deal is {current price} - $100 you'll never get a good deal bro
Yeah its a bad deal, save yourself $160 and don't buy it.
Already saved it.
Huh yes. RAM shortage is a thing, and it won't resolve for some time yet. SK Hynix have already sold out their entire production capacity through to the end of 2026, and a big majority of that is server/data centre memory modules.
SSDs will also go up further.
shortage is a thing
That's what they always say, along with GPU, CPU and SSD shortage.
I've been in the procurement business long enough to know these things aren't real scarcity.
there was significant dram oversupply just a few years ago
@lachlantula: There was also significantly cheaper housing, cars and much lower interest rates just a couple of years ago. But what makes a good price is relative to the current market. If you're in the market for something now, the current best price is what matters. Top-end GPUs were also less than $2000 just a few years ago.
It doesn't matter in the slightest to the end consumer what shenanigans are being played in the back end. The fact for the end user looking to build/upgrade their PC is that RAM prices are skyrocketing, and new supply is being locked in by AI and data centre customers, which leaves gamers and everyday users getting whatever is made on spare capacity. Which doesn't exist at the moment, with both Samsung and SK Hynix having fully committed fab capacity well into 2026.
The same is the case with GPUs. We can argue till the crows come home that it's "not real scarcity", when the reality is, it is real scarcity for the consumer gaming GPUs, because there's no way consumer products can offer them the same margins as enterprise AI GPUs, and the demand for those is high enough for nVidia to flip a gigantic bird to gamers.
@twister292: But that's my point? GPUs are literally all going on sales week by week. So what scarcity?
@marshmall0w2: The scarcity that has driven the x080 series GPUs to $1700-2k and x090 series close $4,000+.
Scarcity is a relative term. There isn't an absolute scarcity of GPUs, but the volume going into retail relative to data centres is small, and that is an element of scarcity. In the days of the 2000 series, almost the entire fab capacity was dedicated to gaming. Now? 80-90% of nVidia's revenue is from the data centre market.
@twister292: That's not scarcity. That's just NVIDIA being greedy and then claiming scarcity lmao. Also, those so-called xx90 drops like crazy. For example, the RTX 5090 dropped from 5+ ks to 3+ ks. The RTX 4090 dropped all the way to $2.7k.
I have seen the rise and falls of such things. I have heard all the fear-mongering that can come out of a market manipulator's press. In the end, it's a simple "good or bad deal."
@marshmall0w2: That's literally one end of the market being prioritised leading to…checks notes…yep, scarcity in the consumer market.
Whatever rationalisation you place on it, for the moment the fact is prices are increasing and if you need parts now, what is a good deal is relative to current pricing.
Otherwise every GPU is a terrible deal compared to the $1000 flagship that was the 1080Ti.
for the moment the fact is prices are increasing
The ATLs on GPUs, CPUs, and even RAMs on some days speak otherwise.
@marshmall0w2: The 5090 is more expensive than the 4090 by a good chunk. Which was a lot more expensive than the 3090. Which was more expensive than the 2080Ti. Every subsequent generation from the 30 series onwards has seen lesser and lesser supply of the top-end units go to gaming. Sounds a lot like…scarcity of the 80Ti/90 series dies for gaming cards. The current 5080 is a 103 class die, which has half the transistor count of its bigger brother, essentially a rebadged 70 series die.
SSD prices have increased significantly over last year, RAM prices are increasing as well. Only CPUs are the exception at the moment.
Really good price given circumstances. Only wish I wasn't already building a white pc :/
I'm in the same boat but purchased anyway, it's a good deal. White spray paint maybe? 🤔
I considered doing so but don't really want to ruin my warranty + quad channel ddr5 apparently isnt very good if i was to add it to my 32gb that just came today
Damn AI…. the ram shortage is also going to start effecting the price of video cards soon. Nvidia has all but canceled its GTX5000 series super lineup due to the ram cost.
Yep.. holding out till black friday for a white 5070ti but if stock starts disappearing i'll have to pull the trigger on it
https://amzn.asia/d/f8eBpg8
A little more expensive but if you're hell bent on white its probably the best you're going to get?
Saw that but it comes after the new year
oh wow, yea didnt notice that. Probably a bit too long
Usually dispatched within 6 to 7 months
Yeah me too. But with RGB, so I checked out with this one:
Can cancel anytime if it doesn’t ship so we’ll see.
FOMO does not mean its a good deal.
It's not FOMO. It's…ROMO? The reality of missing out? Fundamentally chip/wafer shortages are really starting to ramp up.
nearly bought but i'm hanging out for a 2x32(64gb) deal with slightly better speeds/timings
CL40 5200Mhz… Not great. Given the current circumstances however, if you're not bothered by the additional latency then yeah its probably a decent deal IMO
These can run at CL36 with a little tweaking but agreed - it's not fantastic
Bought the exact same at 159 in october, and now 164 is considered a good deal
Man the spike is crazy
The RAM I bought on mid-september, 2x32GB 6000mhz CL30 G.Skill Flare X5, was $349. Now it's $949 last time I checked. Same price as the last 9070XT that was posted. Insane.
Will wait for black friday sale.
Dude trust me the Black Friday this year isn’t blacking RAM. If you need, buy it now.
wait it's already OOS
Hmm 5200MHz CL40 RAM that's tough to swallow
You can overclock/change the timing easily with these since they are Samsung chip. Mine runs at 36,38,38, 78 timing.
Depends on the mobo
Probably, I'm running it on a Asus ROG Z690-E Gaming MB with an Intel 12900K. I've manually increased the RAM voltage to 1.35V. Running stable for about two years now. I recently added two sticks of a different brand to the motherboard for a total of 64GB, it's stable and running fine for a couple months now.
Careful with that. My PC is currently broken seemingly due to having XMP enabled and running RAM at speeds which the mobo or CPU couldn't sustain. It looks like I burnt out the CPU's internal memory controller, but it's really hard to verify without a substitute CPU to rule out whether it's the motherboard's traces which fried. If it's the motherboard then it looks like you can no longer buy decent DDR4 motherboards anymore, and I'd have to do a full upgrade of CPU/motherboard/DDR5 while prices are currently insane. :(
Just take it to a local PC repair shop and they can find out for you, might cost a little bit but at least you can then maybe see what part you may need… Not sure why you can't buy ddr4 mbs? Pretty sure you can go for a used one once you find out what broke…
Also RAM speeds wouldn't have been what fried whatever is fried… Would have likely been voltages
@scud70: I'm going to ring my local umart and see if they'll allow me to try a spare LGA 1700 CPU before buying another one to rule out the motherboard being broken.
I've looked around and it doesn't seem you can buy anything but the lowest quality micro DDR4 motherboards any more. I've got an RTX 3090, 3 NVMEs, 4 HDDS, etc, and would need a full size motherboard and ideally something fairly high quality to protect against voltage issues a second time. It seems decent DDR4 boards are completely non-existent now which really surprised me.
@Nerfy: Very surprising… Would have thought they'd still be available. Hopefully your MB is all good and just need some ddr4 or CPU
I have been running it at that timing for nearly two years now and have no problem with it.
@HandsomeMonkey: Mine lasted 3.5 years and I was pushing it hard, so it's not surprising that it broke now that I've done some research into it, but I wasn't aware there was any real risk before.
Would you actually notice the difference between this and say 6000MHz CL32 if all you are doing is casually gaming?
For some systems. Maybe. For amd it's probably a few (maybe even several?) fps, but depends on GPU and res as to that margin as well.
if you have a GPU like the 5070ti - 9070XT or FASTER ( RTX 5090 ) yes… anything slower then those NO
Maybe try this kit a bit more https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0CCXSFL9S (sorry out of stock now). I need to build a pc after buying the aliexpress 7500F cpu.
Thank you! $200 for 32gb RAM doesn't seem so bad to me! RGB too!
You can order a bunch of OOS parts online. The problem is when will it be shipped to you
I'd you're using Intel this is probably perfectly fine as it's less RAM dependant for best performance. If you're mostly after amount anyway.
I can't say I recommend this for AMD, though. Quite sad and I'm glad I bought my RAM in August for my new build.. 32gb CL30 team group 6000 for the same price. Insanity
really good idea to buy now ram prices going up up up
Prices are brutal if this is a deal, I bought 48gb of 6000Mhz a couple months ago for this price and it wasn't even that good of a deal at the time.
Ooof can't believe this is a good deal… Lol If you pair it with a X3D CPU it won't be as bad…
Hold out, or buy 16GB of better ram tbh.
Or go generic / OEM 16/32GB these specs are pretty bad..
Just Wait if you can, IMO this time next year should be a LOT lower.
How do you know?
yeah THAT CHECKS out.. AI bubble would have burst by that time :).. 12 months is a long time to wait though
well only in theory, but with openai IPO next year perhaps, you just never know how long micron and friends can keep pumping this whole up
I've just been browsing. There were a few different options like 2x16Gb 6000MHz CL40 for <$200, but they're all "temp out of stock" now.
I managed to snag something though. Now I need a DDR5 to DDR4 adapter for my AM4 mobo :P
sold out already
you can still order and see if they ship it when more stock arrives :) No harm and they dont charge you anything until it ships.. cancel anytime
oh unfortunately it won't let me do that, the buy button is gone altogether
was good deal, cheap and fast, couldn’t find better googling ….
Honestly? Because it sounds cool.
… That's it. Striking names attract people just because 'sah cool' factor.
I mean they had the NIC Killer series.. Because… I dunno. Better ethernet is… Good for online kills? Idk.
Just marketing bs. Just gimme simple, functional names that denote the series, the hierarchy (like high end vs low end kit) and what it is objectively. Lol.
Monke like danger, monke like flashy lights, monke buy!
It's really just marketing hype. You can buy normal green OEM RAM without the flashy lights and heat spreading metal, and it'll perform totally fine if you're not trying to overclock it.
It's because the marketing teams at all the PC parts manufacturers 1) don't speak English as their first language and 2) think gamers are all children
Did I get lucky? On September 26 I got corsair vengeance CL28 6000mhz 32gb kit for $175 not even on sale? I saw lately it went upto like $260??
anyone who purchased any DDR5 ram a few months is lucky :)
woah i just checked the kit i got and its $499 at pc case gear what the (profanity)!? https://www.pccasegear.com/products/70899/corsair-vengeance-…
and mine here: https://imgur.com/a/JKV9dtp
Yep.. thats crazy prices have tripplied
RAMCOIN TO THE MOON!
feels like crypto yes
Yall are basically as dumb as ai if you buy because you believe the market dictates it. Don’t buy this at any stage of inflation. All the ai investors can blow their assets further down the toilet all you need to do is sit back and wait for it all to fall to shit. For all the memory they buy they can’t even learn from history. Do not buy.
If this can happen now it can exponentially rise in price infinitely, as all these ai investors believe there is no sky. Let’s see how far Icarus flies. I promise these prices tumble back down. this is the time to HODL our ground.
I think your missing the point… I'm building PC's for the office today and need DDR5? .. if i dont buy ram how to i build those PC's?.. I also dont know anyone who buys RAM as an investment to try and re-sell later on .. sure if you did that 3 months ago knowing they would tripple in price today you could have made some money but still that tech usually goes down in price over time so its a risky investment.
I’m a system builder. I have income tied to this. I am halting my business currently. If groceries increased by 300% in a week I would rather starve than support an entirely broken system. How can you pretend this is even slightly reasonable. Sometimes you have to stop in life and stand up for what you believe in instead of support a system that is actively raping you.
I think you are missing the point of being rational because this happens 10 years ago and people lose their minds not pretend this is a “deal”. It’s surprising that there are even computers builders on ozb as it was previously an extremely niche thing.
installing SQL on a new accounts PC and replacing a workstation. Business PC's cant wait when its needed now.. some home PC users also have broken computers that need replacing. do you expect them to just live off (gaming and web browsing) using only their mobile phone until prices come down? LOL thats insane
@vid_ghost: Really? I think it's insane you exist because you seem like a mindless nimwit. What do you think happened in medieval times when barons increased taxes marginally? Go read a book.
You are existing with a stick in your ass and big boss man wiggles it and you shake your little man booty for him and say more please. You're even happy when he moves it inside you.
@GrumpyGandalf: Dude.. we don't live in that world anymore… we live in a world were business software subscriptions costs more then the PC itself per year. a hand full of Autodesk Revit + Autodesk cloud access alone is like $30k a year
@vid_ghost: History repeats because of fools like you who cannot ever progress. You will watch your children grow up in a unfair world and you stood by and did nothing. The world can change but the human spirit doesn't. Pretending it doesn't doesn't make you any more human.
Since when do normal average humans even think in terms of this investment bullshit. That’s for Wall Street. All this coin nonsense has turned people into mindless idiots that accept complete perversion of basic economics. Read a book. Assets are tied to reality not some pathetic arbitrary bubble that has no meaning. I’m so over it. No average human should be trying to invest in ram. It’s not feasible. You’re not even trying to be human
PC parts are in no way an investment.. only in the past 6-7 years have GPU prices been propped up by Crypto and now AI.. In the past they only ever went down in value along with all other PC Parts
@vid_ghost: What are you even talking about you're ignoring my entire point. I'm saying the fact you're thinking about it with that lens tells me eventually people will think of components as investments. Which is saying arbitrary bubbles used to make rich richer are being accepted by the common man. You're accepting a framework as if it it had any validity in the first place.
@GrumpyGandalf: components as investments. This already happened with PS5 and Geforce GPU's being scalped online on ebay. But again it was only due to Crypto and now AI sucking up all the supply. Take both Crypto and AI away and prices would drop and we would never need to talk about it. unless something like Covid stuffed up logistics and slowed down supply
@vid_ghost: "PC parts are in no way an investment" and "components a(re?) investments". I wonder if you have a strong opinion? You sound like when I used to test ai back in the day and it would flip flop because it realised it's own reasoning was contradictive..
We don't. But the simple fact is the consumer market is a rounding error right now compared to the demand from data centres, and we get whatever capacity is left over after that. If OEMs like Samsung and SK Hynix have AI/data centre clients willing to pay top dollar and commit their entire fab capacity for 2026, they have zero reason to price consumer parts lower. You want/need parts now, you'll pay a margin that makes sense to sell it to you over enterprise users.
nVidia has 80-90% of the revenue from data centres now. You boycotting them only frees up more fab for them to shift to AI to sell for more. In fact the consumer market is getting only the lower binned/less effective dies. Full dies like the 5090 are almost never in stock, and when they are they have rarely gone below $3,800. You're not getting your $2k flagship GPU in the current market.
The simple economics is that demand from enterprise users is soaking up enough supply that prices are sky-high, and consumer products are only getting leftovers.
I'm building PC's for the office today and need DDR5? .. if i dont buy ram how to i build those PC's?
Build ?
You just order them from Dell, like every other business.
There are many many reasons that businesses don't build their own PCs, and the big one relevant to this thread is that Dell have already locked in their component prices long ago.
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