Why is this so expensive in the current year?

Because people buy it for the price it's offered at.

limited parts and parts manufacturers
mobile devices hogging up supply

was wondering this last night

>Try to buy 8Gb of DDR4
>Literally nobody sells 8 gigs of fast DDR4 for some reason
>Ended up having to get 16GB

I wish they wouldn't keep forcing 16GBs, it's really not necessary 99.9% of the time and the times that you would need it aren't worth the extra $50-60

>>60965134
Actually RAM manufactures have stopped competing with each other. Openly stating that they're in a cabal.

I got 32GB of DDR4 for $100 last year. Now it's fucking triple that price and I'm furious because I need another 32

>>60965173
where

>>60965158
Inb4 another tsunami destroys a ram factory

>>60965187
Newegg US.

>>60965045
Price fixing by NAND makers, this has been a known problem for a year now.

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>>60965237
The free market will solve this.

>>60965173
8GB is enough you stupid nigger

Realistically, how can we as consumers force it down?

The in demand and no supply shit is a lie.

>>60965261
If you seriously think everyone's use case is exactly like yours, you're a myopic twat.

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>>60965045
Fuck them all. RAM is expensive, SSD is expensive. Not falling again for that "HDD deficit because of flood" meme.

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>>60965045
Price Fixing between DRAM manufacturers. They aren't even trying to hide it anymore.

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>mfw I purchased another 16GB when it was at it lowest price 1 ago year today

>>60965045
Manufacturers don't want to engage in a price war again. DDR3 RAM was really fucking cheap 4 years ago...

>>60965364

Why doesn't the us gov step in and stop this shit

i bought 4 16gb sticks of ddr4 crucial ram for 84 bucks off amazon last year after black friday i really didnt need 64gb but whatever

A) Smartphone adoption
B) 3D NAND production slow to ramp up.

>>60965045
>Why is this so expensive in the current year?
Expensive?
In 1990 a 4meg SIMM was ~$120. That's in pre-GFC dollars.

>>60965500
>Why doesn't the us gov step in and stop this shit
The US government believes in competition and self-regulation. Governments should not interfere in business.
Get ready for another GFC.

>>60965326
He's still going strong for whatever reason. At least some baits are actually funny and ironically those threads don't contain shitposting rampages.

Don't these retards see this is bad for pc builds

Why wouldn't someone just get a console vs buying overpriced ram that puts a build over 500

>>60965444
thats when i upgraded to ecc though

>Did a upgrade last year on misc. stuff.
>Decided to upgrade the RAM I had and sell off the old sticks that were in there.
>Ram was so cheap that I was able to get 32GB for $100.

Granted it was DDR3, but still.

>>60965173
>32 GB DDR$ for $100
Fuck I remember that too, I hate myself for not moving to DRR4 when I had the chance

>>60965614
on the flipside, DDR3 ECC can practically be bought by the bucket now

>>60965045
SSD price also increased by 50% in a year.