Is RAM the new Bitcoin? DDR4 memory prices are rising so fast, some tracker graphs are running out of space - and I fear 2026 could well see a 10x price rise

Memory trend charts from PCPartPicker show how much has changed in a relatively short time. For much of 2025, DDR4 pricing ...
Network World

What’s causing the memory shortage?

The memory industry faced shortage issues in the past but those were partially due to the changing of memory format. When the ...
TweakTown

As RAM crisis intensifies, DDR3 motherboards are making an improbable comeback

Here's one way to avoid paying an absolute fortune for RAM - forget DDR5 or even DDR4 memory, switch back to DDR3, as some ...
PCMag Australia

DDR4 Prices Jump 10% in One Week. Some Buyers Are Even Looking at DDR3

TrendForce notes a 12% increase in some 8GB DDR4 memory kits and an 8% rise in the cost of 16GB kits over the past week.

Good news! RAM prices seem to have finally stabilized - bad news, it's probably because memory prices are so high, that it's forcing most of us to give up buying an…

DDR5 prices went from boring to brutal as 64GB kits exploded during the late 2025 global memory market shockwave ...

DDR3 is making an unexpected comeback now that DDR4 is also too expensive

According to a post on the China-based PC hardware forum Board Channels, people looking to build relatively affordable workstations with lots of memory are buying old ...

Seeing the absolute state of memory pricing, Chinese DIY community opts for DDR3 motherboards instead

To be clear, DDR4 memory pricing isn't much more sensible than DDR5; according to TrendForce's latest report, "the average ...

Amazon Offers 16GB RAM Mini PC at Almost 40% Off, Now an Affordable Mac Mini Alternative

Right now, you can pick up the AceMagic K1 Mini PC while it’s a whopping 37% off. That means that instead of the usual price ...
XDA Developers on MSN

DDR5 prices killed my upgrade plans, so I overclocked my DDR4 RAM instead

My existing PC has a Ryzen 7 5700X, RTX 3080, and 32GB of DDR4-3600 RAM on a B550 motherboard. It has served me well over the ...

Thrifty modder salvages laptop RAM for custom desktop DIMM

According to VideoCardz.com, a penny-pinching PC user in Russia bought up much older, cheaper DDR4 RAM in laptop SO-DIMMs, ...

With memory in short supply, Gigabyte unveils high-capacity set-up that can support up to 256 GB of DDR5-7200 and is bound to cost the prettiest of pennies

Gigabyte has a track record of pushing DDR5 memory to its limits but, generally speaking, that much DDR5-7200 memory is ...