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devmortoday at 4:27 PM1 replyview on HN

I built my current PC the day that the AM5 platform released, for about $6k not including the 3090 I moved over from the previous rig.

If I sold just the two sticks of RAM in it right now, it’d pay for nearly half of the total cost.


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raegistoday at 7:05 PM

I bought a motherboard from Newegg in late 2024. It came with 16GB of RAM as a free "gift". The same RAM goes for $534 on Newegg today. It was $437 in January. Prices are still creeping up for this "throwaway" memory.

I still have it, but never installed it because I only use ECC memory in my desktops. I'm saving it for a future Desktop in case memory prices never fall again.