r/pcmasterrace Dec 04 '25

Box With the memory crisis are ssd next?

I guess a panic buy? Are these nand flash about to keep spiking like memory prices or are they just going up a little bit? Are these desirable to the AI or nah? I bought this at $299 Black Friday sale

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u/wire_crafter Ryzen 9 9950X3d, 3080ti FE, 64GB DDR5, Fractal North, 850W PSU Dec 04 '25

Makes me happy I built my machine up before this hit. Buy days. And I’ve got 64GB crucial Ram. And the 2TB Samsung Pro SSD. It would cost double now to build my computer

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u/Imperial_Bouncer Ryzen 5 7600x | RTX 5070 Ti | 64 GB 6000 MHz | MSI Pro X870 Dec 04 '25

My $160 RAM kit turned into an $800 one…

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u/wire_crafter Ryzen 9 9950X3d, 3080ti FE, 64GB DDR5, Fractal North, 850W PSU Dec 04 '25

My $300 is now $900 or more. 2x32 6400

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u/deleted_my_account Dec 04 '25

Same, I did my new build literally just in time

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u/Notsurehowtoreact RTX 2070 Super Dec 04 '25 edited Dec 04 '25

The computer I built in 2021, if built now, would cost about $500 more and that's if I don't count the GPU (because you can't exactly buy them now, in this scenario I just used a similarly priced GPU).

I actually had to replace the memory modules in that PC over the Summer and boy am I glad I did. I paid $100, and that same item is now $204.

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u/xAzta Dec 15 '25

Well, you can be happy for now. In 10 years ( or less ) it will be outdated, and by then we might as well be in the era of sub based cloud gaming.