Technology

As you can imagine, this is enormous pricing pressure for enthusiasts trying to build gaming PCs or upgrade their rigs in 2026.

Waiting until 2028 for anything involving RAM would be a good idea, if possible. You're likely to get more for your money.

If you've got money burning a hole in your pocket and are determined to spend on gaming computer hardware in 2026/2027, it might be a good idea to consider things like game controllers, displays, or something like that, since those don't have prices driven by memory price.

Devs just need to optimize their software. My i5 750 still works just fine with a 1060 and 16gb ram. Their's thousand of great games to play, fuck the aaa.

Gaming is just going to become a hobby for the rich at this rate. There is no way we can keep up with this.

Going back to the 90s when a few megabytes was hundreds of dollars.

I just had to buy a m.2 drive. It cost more than double the same item I bought in 2022. It also cost more than the entire computer it's being installed into! FML.

Basically we will be buying computer parts in specific decades, like this decade is bad for anything memory, last was bad for anything GPU. Next will be bad for, I don't know, screens or mobos. And so on.

1gb of ram costs more than 1 hour of minimum wage

I guess I'll just stay on am4 until the bubble pops then. DDR4 has also gone up, but at least the prices are reasonable

I just don't think people are buying RAM/other PC parts period. new or used.

I've have a listing selling a couple year old sticks of 16gb (32gb total) of DDR4 ram for $120 for like 4 weeks now and not a peep from anyone. I've seen other listings for ram at similar price points that have also been up for weeks.

So i'm not sure if there's an actual shortage or people just simply aren't buying.

My CostCo is selling a gaming PC for $1,300, with 64gb of DDR5 and a RTX 5060. If that is a decent deal, go pick one up before the oil shocks start to really hit.