How much RAM you got?

[Violator]

96GB of Corsair Vengeance 5600 in my main PC atm.
48GB of Corsair Vengeance 9200 CuDimm for my upcoming build.
Think i have a few sticks of 32GB DDR5 laying around that i need to see if they work. (Put them in the system but had trouble with configuring them)

Liking the flippancy of 'having a few sticks of 32GB DDR5 laying around'

 

[kamxam]

Problem with that is that at the time i had trouble getting them to work, and since RAM was cheap at the time i just got the current RAM i have now and put the sticks in a drawer. Not sure if they are good or bad atm.

 

[MPXx]

16Gb ddr4 on this pc (dell 3050) which is for browsing and main use.
20 Gb ddr3 on storage pc (a88x gamer x4 845 12tb storage)
16Gb ddr3 on back up pc (Lenovo tiny )
and finally 16Gb ddr3 on old X6 1055 with Foxconn m/b.

 

[Violator]

100K views. Nice

Keep up the updates. I was going to say hopefully RAM prices peak and start dropping soon, but then I looked at the last kit I bought -


G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB Series (Intel XMP) 64GB (2 x 32GB), which I bought in October 2023 for £197, is now £847!

 

[revenant]

a grand for this 2x 32G DDR5 CL30 kit ..

CORSAIR VENGEANCE RGB DDR5 64GB (2x32GB) DDR5 6000MHz CL30 AMD EXPO Intel XMP iCUE Compatible Computer Memory – Gray (CMH64GX5M2B6000Z30)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C5M9P5GK

Price Context and Market History

• Pre-Crisis Baseline: Throughout the summer of 2025, this specific low-latency kit could regularly be found on sale for closer to $190 to $210 on platforms like Amazon and Newegg.
• The Subsequent Price Surge: If you are looking at historical prices to cross-reference a current quote, please note that the DRAM market underwent extreme supply shortages later that year. By early 2026, severe component shortages drove the price of this exact kit up drastically, forcing it to peak well over $1,000

 

[ThreeDee]

100K views. Nice

Keep up the updates. I was going to say hopefully RAM prices peak and start dropping soon, but then I looked at the last kit I bought -
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G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB Series (Intel XMP) 64GB (2 x 32GB), which I bought in October 2023 for £197, is now £847!

8/25 I had gotten a 9600x for my wife that came bundled with a free 2x8GB 6000 DDR5 kit that now lists for something like $239'ish

 

[SamirD]

• The Subsequent Price Surge: If you are looking at historical prices to cross-reference a current quote, please note that the DRAM market underwent extreme supply shortages later that year. By early 2026, severe component shortages drove the price of this exact kit up drastically, forcing it to peak well over $1,000

Shortage my a....the prices just jumped overnight--there's no shortage of finding ram at gouging prices...

 

[StevenJamesBorchard]

Ahh computer RAM topics, so fun.

old man time frame: first computer apple macintosh 1992 2-6 MB RAM.

I remember back in the day of 2007 ish. I got a windows XP lenovo laptop to use only 98 MB of RAM sitting on desktop from boot.

Cut to first use of windows 11 and I am flaber gasted on even after de crapifying it and streaming lining with power shell and services GUI W11 still uses over 900 MB RAM on desktop with virtually no start up programs or anything installed.

But then I remembered earlier on windows 10 playing 3 different instances of Video games, a microphone program, music program and 2-3 web browser tabs using about 9-11 GB of RAM active use in each. and was dammm impressed with W10/W11 16 GB of RAM. ( across 2-3 screens)

 

[SamirD]

I remember optimizing the 640k under DOS on our 1MB PS/2 30-286. Got windows 3.1 to work on it after cpu, storage, and ram upgrades--learned a lot from that machine. Still have it, but it's needing restoration now.

Then we made our 486 and built it with 16MB of ram which was crazy overkill. Before we retired the system, we upgraded to 32MB.

Then came our Cyrix P166+. Built it with 128MB of ram. Win 3.1 ran so fast on it.

After that, I realized that all I cared about was my data, so I built storage servers and just used whatever computers to access the data. I realized that systems on the trailing edge that were practically throwaway were great for this, so that's what I've been using for years now after I learned how to lock down xp with windows steadystate. Luckily, XP runs nicely on just 4GB. Win7 is nice with 32GB.

 

[revenant]

Shortage my a....the prices just jumped overnight--there's no shortage of finding ram at gouging prices...

the irony.. there's plenty there if you willing to pay through the ass for it... this is all likely driven out of fear that it could run out due to demand in the enterprise realm.. eh, it's all a bunch of horse shit. I thought the future would be cooler than this.

 

[SamirD]

the irony.. there's plenty there if you willing to pay through the ass for it... this is all likely driven out of fear that it could run out due to demand in the enterprise realm.. eh, it's all a bunch of horse shit. I thought the future would be cooler than this.

Yep, hence the fake shortage aka covid times gouging for no reason. This is why I don't want to be dependent on the third world for all this stuff since these type of shenanigans are 'normal' for that part of the world.

 

[undertaker2k8]

Yep, hence the fake shortage aka covid times gouging for no reason. This is why I don't want to be dependent on the third world for all this stuff since these type of shenanigans are 'normal' for that part of the world.

Except in this case the price fixing is being driven by Scam Altman and Dario Nebulous in SF and being cheered on by their strange political bedfellows in DC, it truly is an American problem end to end, no other country, China included is going this level of ape shit with AI and specifically AI DCs being the only salvation to all problems in the world.

 

[kram182]

Except in this case the price fixing is being driven by Scam Altman and Dario Nebulous in SF and being cheered on by their strange political bedfellows in DC, it truly is an American problem end to end, no other country, China included is going this level of ape shit with AI and specifically AI DCs being the only salvation to all problems in the world.

RAM/physical HW manufactures could increase fabrication/output capacity (especially with all the money they're raking in) but are slow/reluctant to do so anymore than is absolutely necessary to keep up with b2b demand because then they don't want so much HW in the market/being made that things become be so cheap for consumers afterward whenever the AI boom is over/calms down.

 

[undertaker2k8]

RAM/physical HW manufactures could increase fabrication/output capacity (especially with all the money they're raking in) but are slow/reluctant to do so anymore than is absolutely necessary to keep up with b2b demand because then they don't want so much HW in the market/being made that things become be so cheap for consumers afterward whenever the AI boom is over/calms down.

And there in lies the problem with the current AI chips and memory rally, everything is being priced as a long term change in demand but everyone knows it's cyclical and it will likely end sooner than most expect,

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/28/ai-spending-roi-enterprise-costs

Valuations for AMD, MU and especially SNDK/INTC are absurd. Forward PEs have no meaning even if very low since demand will drop off a cliff in 2-3 years, and people are arguing a 9x PE for MU is low, do we expect this to last till 2035???

 

[kram182]

And there in lies the problem with the current AI chips and memory rally, everything is being priced as a long term change in demand but everyone knows it's cyclical and it will likely end sooner than most expect,

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/28/ai-spending-roi-enterprise-costs

Valuations for AMD, MU and especially SNDK/INTC are absurd. Forward PEs have no meaning even if very low since demand will drop off a cliff in 2-3 years, and people are arguing a 9x PE for MU is low, do we expect this to last till 2035???

Its up in the air when/if the boom will actually end/die down - it's entirely possible the only thing that might make it so - is simply more output capacity being built with no b2b demand ever decreasing - but again the HW manufactures would have to be dragged kicking and screaming into doing that, to that degree - as they fear lower profit margins from excess HW supply should (not necessarily if/when) b2b demand ever fall.

 

[undertaker2k8]

Its up in the air when/if the boom will actually end/die down - it's entirely possible the only thing that might make it so - is simply more output capacity being built with no b2b demand ever decreasing - but again the HW manufactures would have to be dragged kicking and screaming into doing that, to that degree - as they fear lower profit margins from excess HW supply should (not necessarily if/when) b2b demand ever fall.

Read that Axios article, there is no ROI from AI besides a couple of things like speeding up software dev, it's a known secret at this point that everyone pretends doesn't exist. How does b2b demand not dry up with a very limited ROI compared to costs incurred?

 

[kram182]

Read that Axios article, there is no ROI from AI besides a couple of things like speeding up software dev, it's a known secret at this point that everyone pretends doesn't exist. How does b2b demand not dry up with a very limited ROI compared to costs incurred?

I don't have a crystal ball to tell you exactly how - all I can say is the possibility for it still remains as of now, the same way everyone says Tesla should not be worth as much as it was 10 years ago, or 5 years ago, or today, or assumedly tomorrow, etc.

 

[SamirD]

Wha-na-na-na-na fake sh....

The price jump mimic the covid supply/demand issue except there really isn't one. Watch the records earnings postings and that will pretty much prove it.

 

[Vengance_01]

Server will have 128GB ram. My Desktop has 32GB's and my Wifes Computer has 16GB. Each of my Kids PCs have a 12GB on the host and 12GB in there Windows 11 VDI(I host these on my server)