RAM and HDD prices are jumping (2025)

[Kyle Crane]

 

[Sushubh]

I mean a certain amount of ram would have cost more than a PS5 before the current mess as well lol.

 

[Navjot Singh]

Blame AI. There was an article saying that AI is causing ram shortage and making them expensive.

 

[Navjot Singh]

Also RAM in question is not special at all. It shouldn't cost that much.

 

[Kyle Crane]

exactly ,the price history of that ram shows how it costed 15k just a few months ago

and now its more expensive than a ps5

 

[Kyle Crane]

i wish i had gone for a ddr5 build in late 2023 or gone for a full 32gb ddr4 build back then

now im having low ram issues (if you see the ram usage above)

not to mention vram issues but that's something which is due to nvidia being greedy

 

[Kaiju404]

Which application is eating up that much ram? this is strange. Also do you by any chance open up a lot many apps or chrome tabs?

 

[Sushubh]

Ddr4 is also expensive now?

 

[Kyle Crane]

@Sushubh yep

Some ddr4 8gb 3200 non rgb costing 1800₹
Is now 4500₹ or some

 

[Kyle Crane]

@Kaiju404 high vram is usually caused when im using davinci resolve and de noising videos over it
and high ram is usually during adobe lightroom which starts lagging once the ram is completely used