“I’ve been saving for months to get the Corsair Dominator 64GB CL30 kit,” one beleagured PC builder wrote on Reddit. “It was about $280 when I looked,” said u/RaidriarT, “Fast forward today on PCPartPicker, they want $547 for the same kit? A nearly 100% increase in a couple months?”

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    2 months ago

    What?

    You think this is the first ram crunch?

    It’s not even the first one in this decade…

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      2 months ago

      Well, I was aware RAM prices fluctuate.

      I’ve never been so unfortunate when buying larger RAM, or building a new system with a new DDR version.

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        2 months ago

        They don’t real fluctuate, it’s more oscillating.

        Sometimes it’s “normal” but due to a wide range of issues that can change quickly and stay that way for months because everyone waits till prices go down. So as they go down, people stop waiting,