The server this Lemmy instance is on was bought in August 2024 with 512G ram. I bought another 8x 64G in April 2025 for £610. That is ~£75 a stick of 64G server ram.
I just bought another server to go along side this and was originally planning to buy the same RAM again. It is now £500 per stick. So I’ve had to instead donate the extra RAM I bought last year to the new ram-less server.
So that’s £75 -> £500. Absolutely ridiculous. Would have cost me £8000 in RAM when the rest of the server was ~£2k.
Indeed. Dude my main pc is just a modest last gen r7 32G with decent gpu. And I’m glad I pulled the trigger for the 16g upgrade last year.
Now I don’t personally believe in higher being, but I’ll be lying if I’m not nervous everytime I power up the thing. If anything breaks even if I go a tier cheaper I couldn’t afford the replacement.
I kept spending my money on food instead of upgrades. Here’s hoping DDR5 drops below 2x its Sept 2025 value in 2027, to coincide with Zen 6.
I tried to get RAM on eBay. 8GB & 16GB kits are not even being auctioned, and when they are sold their price tag is well over 3x their value, often 4x (~GB£170). 32GB sells for 3-4x its value (~£260-£320), almost as much as 64GB, which is often going for >2.5x (~£380-£440). If you’re desperate or are okay with massive financial waste, eBay is often the cheapest place for 64GB kits, but anything lower is relatively more expensive than just buying from distributors
Wish I had gone with the upgrade I planned to do last fall.
I was considering splashing out a bit for some ram upgrades to my laptop from 2018. It’s got 8 gig now, but can support 32. Or maybe just one 16gb stick to start slow, it’s got overheating issues.
I was watching videos from a IT tech about how he gets performance/cooling upgrades from just replacing thermal paste/putty on chips. Oh, I didn’t know about putty on non CPU chips, I guess I’ll get some of the right thickess from a store near me. Oh no, looks like that’s out of stock. Well, I want to replace everything at once.
Oh here’s another place that sells putty, let me get that while I have some time off. Do they have ram too? Oh no, they don’t that’s ok. I can wait, and get it for myself as a treat for achieving some behavioural goals I have for myself.
After all, why not? It’s late October 2025 , I have plenty of time to buy ram whenever I want to.
Late October 2025
Plenty of time to buy ram
October 2025
RAM
Dude’s filthy rich. Wish I had gone with the upgrade I planned to do last fall.
Back in 2021 I accidentally bought a 64 GB kit rather than the 32 GB one I intended to. No regrets now but really felt like an excess back then.
64 still feels like excess on a Linux machine… But I got mine back in like 2023-2024 so I got lucky
holy crap tell me about it.
The server this Lemmy instance is on was bought in August 2024 with 512G ram. I bought another 8x 64G in April 2025 for £610. That is ~£75 a stick of 64G server ram.
I just bought another server to go along side this and was originally planning to buy the same RAM again. It is now £500 per stick. So I’ve had to instead donate the extra RAM I bought last year to the new ram-less server.
So that’s £75 -> £500. Absolutely ridiculous. Would have cost me £8000 in RAM when the rest of the server was ~£2k.
God damn
Indeed. Dude my main pc is just a modest last gen r7 32G with decent gpu. And I’m glad I pulled the trigger for the 16g upgrade last year.
Now I don’t personally believe in higher being, but I’ll be lying if I’m not nervous everytime I power up the thing. If anything breaks even if I go a tier cheaper I couldn’t afford the replacement.
I kept spending my money on food instead of upgrades. Here’s hoping DDR5 drops below 2x its Sept 2025 value in 2027, to coincide with Zen 6.
I tried to get RAM on eBay. 8GB & 16GB kits are not even being auctioned, and when they are sold their price tag is well over 3x their value, often 4x (~GB£170). 32GB sells for 3-4x its value (~£260-£320), almost as much as 64GB, which is often going for >2.5x (~£380-£440). If you’re desperate or are okay with massive financial waste, eBay is often the cheapest place for 64GB kits, but anything lower is relatively more expensive than just buying from distributors
I was considering splashing out a bit for some ram upgrades to my laptop from 2018. It’s got 8 gig now, but can support 32. Or maybe just one 16gb stick to start slow, it’s got overheating issues.
I was watching videos from a IT tech about how he gets performance/cooling upgrades from just replacing thermal paste/putty on chips. Oh, I didn’t know about putty on non CPU chips, I guess I’ll get some of the right thickess from a store near me. Oh no, looks like that’s out of stock. Well, I want to replace everything at once.
Oh here’s another place that sells putty, let me get that while I have some time off. Do they have ram too? Oh no, they don’t that’s ok. I can wait, and get it for myself as a treat for achieving some behavioural goals I have for myself.
After all, why not? It’s late October 2025 , I have plenty of time to buy ram whenever I want to.
Fuckig fUCK FUCKFNGUFKC
A Laptop from 2018 has an older DDR version, than the current ones. So less affected by high RAM prices as current ones.