alt Hacker NewsBuilding 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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Here is some proper data:
https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/
The same site also has price trends for CPUs, video cards, etc.
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.
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.
I paid $150 for a 64GB DDR5 in Jan 2025. That is today $830 representing 5.5x.
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.