alt Hacker NewsTo put this in long term relation.
Even current DDR4 3200 DIMM prices are at an all time high.
These are 6+ year old chip specs now!
I even thought stuff was overpriced four years ago in mid-2021 already, but this is a whole new level.
Some sample long term data for those:
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honeycrispy • today at 4:44 AM
Dang, I'm going to have to put my old RAM on ebay. I thought it was worthless, but I was clearly wrong.
PeterStuer • today at 8:28 AM
Now happy I bought that 256GB of DDR4 with the MB/processor combo of ebay last summer.
thescriptkiddie • today at 4:25 AM
anyone want to buy a 2x16 GB DDR4-3200 kit that only fails memtest86 some of the time?
Between inflation generally, and DDR4 being obsolete and unsupported by current desktop or server CPUs, it would be unsurprising for DDR4-3200 DIMMs to be at an all-time high even without the current DRAM price shock. You can never count on old memory types dropping to bargain prices, because the major manufacturers are always eager to migrate the bulk of their production capacity to current-generation memory.