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MP 7,1 Memory prices increasing dramatically
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mattspace
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Non-Euclidean
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More good news!
www.tomshardware.com
PC hardware vendor PNY suspends Black Friday storage deals — cites rising NAND costs
PC hardware vendor PNY suspends Black Friday storage deals — cites rising NAND costs
A sign of things to come?
tsialex
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I've been following memory prices pratically daily since this insane rise started, even long obsolete DDR3-1600 almost doubled the price and one interesting thing, distributors went back to sell 4GB DIMMs after years with 8GB DIMMs being the smallest module available.
Who would imagine one year ago that 4GB DIMMs would return from the grave back in 2025 and low cost PCs are now being sold with just 4GB of RAM. Windows can barely run Windows Update with just 4GB…
DDR5 prices are so prohibitive right now, no frills 16GB 5600MHz DIMMs from no-name brands are now around US $100, that AM4 motherboards are now selling 5x more than AM5 since the DDR4 rise was not so absurd and Ryzen 5xxx CPUs are a lot more afordable and still have good performance.
Who would imagine one year ago that 4GB DIMMs would return from the grave back in 2025 and low cost PCs are now being sold with just 4GB of RAM. Windows can barely run Windows Update with just 4GB…
DDR5 prices are so prohibitive right now, no frills 16GB 5600MHz DIMMs from no-name brands are now around US $100, that AM4 motherboards are now selling 5x more than AM5 since the DDR4 rise was not so absurd and Ryzen 5xxx CPUs are a lot more afordable and still have good performance.
RetroDan
macrumors regular
I was watching a 256GB 2933 kit from Nemix around June - should have picked it up at $385, but right before I was going to buy, it jumped to $550. Decided not to buy it, and wait it out.
It is now over $1750.
What. The. Actual. ****.
It is now over $1750.
What. The. Actual. ****.
What the... 😱
This is nonsense.🙁
I should have purchased 768GB and not installed it, then resold at a monster profit. 🙁
A friend of mine had a fairly basic Windows PC with 8GB ram and my goodness the thing just struggled so badly. I tried cleaning up all the bloat-ware pre-installed (and the nonsense from the printer manufacturers) and it was somewhat better, but still way slow. You just waited and waited for it even just to start windows. It had an SSD but even with that, still sluggish.
I ended up convincing him to go to Apple M4 Mac Mini - miles better. It works!
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It is truly a bad situation. But would anyone purchase the kit at these price levels?
I have been following RAM prices for well over a year. The price was approaching reasonable levels, still didn't see many kits sold on ebay. With the prices going through the stratosphere, it is an even harder sell.
I have quite a bit of RAM in my old 5,1 Mac Pros, all good and working. Maybe I could pull it out and sell it for a hefty profit. Just a matter of waiting for the price to be right.
192GB in total of that. Sigh... No, I wouldn't do profiteering. 🙁
I feel bad for the folks who do need to buy RAM, eg to replace RAM that is faulty or need to build a new computer.
192GB in total of that. Sigh... No, I wouldn't do profiteering. 🙁
I feel bad for the folks who do need to buy RAM, eg to replace RAM that is faulty or need to build a new computer.
I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment here.
I am trying to sell the last 8-core Mac Pro I purchased, after I upgraded it to make it more rounded.
Got two offers at 15000 Sek or less 😵
Now I am starting to reconsider the offer, and will probably remove it from the market.
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edit: sold to an academic at Oslo University 🙂
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I kept a link saved to macperformanceguide. I have not looked at it for a long time, so decided to go back and revisit it.
There is a memory bandwidth issue with the low memory spec.
Quote:
"The more interesting 'find' here is that the Apple 48GB memory kit has about 1/3 less memory bandwidth than the OWC 6 X 32GB 192GB memory kit! Moreover, mixed sizes not matched up drop things even more (4 X 8 GB + 2 X 32GB). Anyone buying this class of machine would thus be well advised to pay attention to matched sets of memory, and not just any memory."
There is a memory bandwidth issue with the low memory spec.
Quote:
"The more interesting 'find' here is that the Apple 48GB memory kit has about 1/3 less memory bandwidth than the OWC 6 X 32GB 192GB memory kit! Moreover, mixed sizes not matched up drop things even more (4 X 8 GB + 2 X 32GB). Anyone buying this class of machine would thus be well advised to pay attention to matched sets of memory, and not just any memory."
2019 Mac Pro: Memory Bandwidth
macperformanceguide.com
Rimmsi
macrumors regular
We have to accept that the prices of MP 7.1 are falling and will continue to fall. I recently bought one brand new in the specification 16 core, 4TB, 96GB, 580X for 2000 Euro incl. shipping costs to my country.
Non-Euclidean
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Hardware Unboxed had the NA PR Manager from Sapphire on as a guest on their podcast a couple of weeks ago.
It touches base on the issue(s). There are chapter markers.
It touches base on the issue(s). There are chapter markers.
Flint Ironstag
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I think it was around $3.7k or so for 1.5TB MP 2019 kit back when I was building - now it's $9k +. No way in hell I'm paying that. Good thing I don't need it.
The 12x 128GB 1.5TB DDR4 ECC LRDIMM RAM 2933MHz kit price is now €6.999.
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I placed a bid on a 96GB (6x 16GB) kit. The seller cancelled the auction when he realised he was not going to make a large profit 🙄
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I posted this to show that there is barely any demand for the memory sticks.
Like it has been pointed out many times in different discussions about the Mac Pro. Most people never upgrade the machines, but prefer to upgrade to a new Mac Studio, or PC.
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I posted this to show that there is barely any demand for the memory sticks.
Like it has been pointed out many times in different discussions about the Mac Pro. Most people never upgrade the machines, but prefer to upgrade to a new Mac Studio, or PC.
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Flint Ironstag
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Hoping this AI boom goes bust soon! I need both of my machines to have 1.5TB!
Well I don't, but it would be fun to have it. 😀
Just recently, I bought 96 GB (6x 16GB) for my cMP for $72 shipped. Used sticks, server pulls I believe. Didn't actually need the upgrade, but what the heck.
Long Live the 4,1 and 5,1. At least we can still remember a good amount, for a price you can afford. 🙂
Long Live the 4,1 and 5,1. At least we can still remember a good amount, for a price you can afford. 🙂
keksikuningas
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did something similar recently. I was well served already with 32GB for stuff I do on my cMP, but I wanted to have matching sticks for everything at higher speed (1366 vs 1066) and the 6x16gb samsung ECC sticks I found were perfect for this
It’s not only memory kits. Graphics cards are said to be affected as well.
The latest seems to be hard drives 😳
www.tomshardware.com
Perhaps Apple made a good call, with the Mac Studios. Time will tell
The latest seems to be hard drives 😳
Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 — chief says some long-term agreements for 2027 and 2028 already in place
Will HDDs follow RAM and SSDs when it comes to price increases?
Perhaps Apple made a good call, with the Mac Studios. Time will tell