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So I reviewed the UGreen DXP6800 Pro in August, and shortly before it was published I purchased a 64GB DDR5 kit (which wasn't even cheap at the time) because the plan is also to do a review so that it is capable of hardware transcoding using a Nvidia 3050 PCIe card, VMs etc etc but I haven't gotten around to it yet because I've been swamped with other reviews and my duties here at Neowin.

Here's part of my receipt:

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Current pricing:

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Here is the pricing history:

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Hovered over a day before purchase.

Imagine if I had waited until I was going to start the review!

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How I feel right now. 😅

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I just had a server die on me that I bought last year with 32GB OF DDR5, WAS going to put 32GB more in last year but thought prices will go down......

yeah......... Price almost tripled......

 

my desktop has 128GB of DDR5 6000MT RAM... average price for that now is around $1,700 it looks like.... I paid NO where near that... not even close

i read the frontpage article yesterday about a potential increase but i really wasn't expecting it to be so obvious. i just checked Canada Computers here and 16GB DDR5 going for $500-$600.....wtf?! 64GB going for $1200?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!? seriously? 

 

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On 09/12/2025 at 13:58, fintechfooty said:

i read the frontpage article yesterday about a potential increase but i really wasn't expecting it to be so obvious. i just checked Canada Computers here and 16GB DDR5 going for $500-$600.....wtf?! 64GB going for $1200?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!? seriously? 

 

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Yeah, I kinda feel like when RAM costs that much they just want this to be the end of PC's...... put it all in the cloud and have tablets that connect to it BS.......

I built a system last year with parts from my local Micro Center.

Back then I got 64GB of DDR5 RAM for $225

Today that same exact kit of RAM is $900

😲

Totaalbedrag...I need to use that as an insult some time. :p (Edit: It read as total bed rag, I know that isn't what it means)

Jokes aside, it's well known that AI companies are really pushing the prices up. And Crucial getting out of the consumer market? That's going to send everyone into a frenzy.

I was just telling my colleague at work we got super lucky - we ordered 4 TB of memory for 4 servers back in late summer. I don't even want to know the new cost would be. 

On the consumer side, I wish 32 GB would be the new norm. That would future-proof the majority of general users

On 09/12/2025 at 11:33, neufuse said:

Yeah, I kinda feel like when RAM costs that much they just want this to be the end of PC's...... put it all in the cloud and have tablets that connect to it BS.......

funny you say this because this has been on my mind quite a bit. i convince myself it's fanciful but the other part of me looks at our current geopolitical environment and says that going this route would be supported by people with more power than me. i hope this isn't the case. 

 

i was actually thinking about the future of PC gaming as well. so far, the last 5 years has been great in the sense that more developers have been porting their games over to pc. if less people make or buy pc's, it'll go back to where it was 10 years ago with no one wanting to develop major games on pc or releasing ###### unoptimized ports. 

 

anyways, moving past the hypothetical and perhaps slippy slope possibilities above, at least there isn't evidence of a permanent move away from consumer ram. at some point, barring any more "IT revolutions", they'll move back to consumer stuff. i hope we'll have a concentration ratio where only two firms dominate the enterprise grade so the others can quit and move back to consumer stuff. 

I paid like £190 for 64GB of DDR5 a year ago.. I just checked. It's now £675 for the same.

There's no way I would have upgraded if that was the price back then. Phew.

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