[HN Gopher] Ramtrack.eu - RAM Price Intelligence
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Ramtrack.eu - RAM Price Intelligence
Author : nu11r0ut3
Score : 78 points
Date : 2026-03-19 12:39 UTC (10 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (ramtrack.eu)
| replooda wrote:
| Useful. Which saddens my heart.
| burnt-resistor wrote:
| So I have an NIB sealed Corsair Vengeance 96 GiB (2x48) DDR5-5600
| SO-DIMM and it's looking like $1100 USD would be a reasonable
| price point given comparables and there's zero supply at present.
|
| It's pretty crazy when computer components go tulip bulbs better
| than gold.
| the_biot wrote:
| A quick glance at sold DIMMs on ebay makes clear this is just
| nonsense. What's the source for these numbers?
|
| This is just some vibe-coded crap, isn't it?
| iknownothow wrote:
| I checked the prices for 64GB DDR5. There's some variance based
| on brand/model but the average and trend seems more or less
| right. Did you happen to notice that it is about prices in the
| EU?
| myrmidon wrote:
| This fails a basic smell test: For DDR5, there is only a ~6%
| price difference between 16 and 32GB. Reality is that 2x16GB
| goes for about 400 (so that checks out), but 16GB of DDR5 can
| be had for a bit more than half that (250ish)-- obviously,
| otherwise people would just buy a 32GB dual channel kit and
| sell both 16GB sticks at a huge markup.
| mey wrote:
| While the .eu should make that more obvious, the text is
| pretty small/low contrast. Also specifically indicates it's
| the Dutch market.
|
| https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/ may be more
| interesting to US users.
| chocochunks wrote:
| They seem pretty similar to the values from pcpartpicker.
| (https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/)
|
| Probably not tracking eBay but retail stores..
| myrmidon wrote:
| Pcpartpicker has no plot for the 16GB DDR5 category (2x8GB?),
| which is the one value that makes absolutely no sense in the
| ramtrack plots.
|
| But if you look at individual DDR-2x8GB items on
| pcpartpicker, it becomes obvious that ramtrack is just
| completely off here (why would 16GB be only 6% cheaper than
| 32GB, that is just not credible).
| nu11r0ut3 wrote:
| Source is a Dutch price comparison website. They have a
| undocumented API where I can fetch price history from. I picked
| a kit from each category and that's the prices your seeing.
|
| The rest is vibe-coded crap, yes.
| whalesalad wrote:
| I have 2x32GB DDR4 from Teamgroup that I purchased in 2023 for
| about $100. One of the sticks recently died. The RMA process has
| been a nightmare, so I looked on AMZN to check and see how
| expensive it would be to just re-order and replace them. $600.
| Absolutely insane tbh.
| andix wrote:
| $600 is the reason why the RMA process is a nightmare ;)
| sudo_gopnik wrote:
| Nice - Recommend adding LPDDR variants, info on lead times,
| currency toggle button, and lastly maybe consider adding other
| memories commonly paired (e.g. eMMC, NVMe, etc.) but perhaps is
| out of scope.
|
| This supply crunch is such a fraud - I was on a call with a
| analyst group covering the memory market and they described the
| current situation in hilariously depressing corpo speak:
|
| "Pricing dynamics are reflective of coordinated production
| discipline amongst major suppliers."
|
| I had to give them props, that is one of the most creative ways
| to describe the pricing fixing cartels.
| oystersareyum wrote:
| > production discipline
|
| Is a common phrase in cyclical industries. Increasing
| production requires huge capex (like Micron's new $100 billion
| plant in New York), but the reward for that investment are
| lower prices... A decade ago, during the shale boom people
| started talking about it and you can find plenty of use in the
| early 2000s already.
| omarqureshi wrote:
| very cool - if RDIMMs could be added, that would be swell
| nazgulsenpai wrote:
| In June 2024, for my home gaming PC, instead of platform swapping
| to AM5, I decided to coast on a 5700X3D while they were on sale
| for ~$190 and 32 GB DDR4 3200MHZ for ~$50. Added a 9070XT last
| year for MSRP but don't remember the exact price.
|
| While it was the right idea at the time (for me), I wonder if I
| should have upgraded while the prices were a little more
| "normal"...
|
| No real point here, just complaining to the room.
| Myzel394 wrote:
| I need this for hard drives
| Imustaskforhelp wrote:
| https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/internal-hard-drive/
|
| This is a website I like to use nowadays.
| Havoc wrote:
| Hmm. Maybe I should sell half the ddr4 in my pc.
|
| Don't really need 64gb
| sonar_un wrote:
| Needs to have 48GB SODIMMs
| vardump wrote:
| RAM market havoc is handing Chinese manufacturers an open door.
| They'll generate enough cash to finally catch up with the big
| guys.
|
| This is not going to end well for Samsung, Micron and Hynix.
| tmikaeld wrote:
| Isn't it about time they get some competition?
| surgical_fire wrote:
| Good?
|
| The fact that RAM got so expensive is a market failure.
| vardump wrote:
| Precisely.
| Zardoz84 wrote:
| Adam Smith is laughing from his tomb.
| OJFord wrote:
| Crikey I did not realise how bad it was... 8GB of DDR4 is
| EUR100?!
|
| Is older stuff worth anything? I might be sitting on a
| goldmine... (Quick look at eBay - not a lot - non-ECC DDR3 2x8GB
| selling about PS10.)
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