When the new gen of Framework 16 came out, I made the uneducated decision to buy RAM and storage later.
Now RAM prices are getting gouged and I’m set to receive a laptop with no RAM. Framework’s high density RAM sticks are also not available for purchase.
What do?
RAM parts are mostly out of stock on Framework marketplace, but it’s still available to configure when buying a laptop. If all other sources have unavailable or much expensive RAM sticks, you can at least return this laptop within the 30-day window and buy another one configured with RAM
Well i pre ordered the FW 16 without RAM and as we all was not expecting the massive price bump.
I was searching for 48 Gigs 5600 Mhz and found it on Amazon last week for 65€ a piece. So my tipp: look for single sticks because for some reason they are sometimes cheaper by a lot (with the uped prices)
But you have to look long enough. Sorry for not having better advice other than something luck based 
Edit: Crucial has sometimes random prices on Amazon
In 99% of cases that would have been the better move. Who had openai going around with some imaginary money and buying all the ram on their bingo card XD.
Honestly, not RAM, but I did have the GPU market being eaten up by AI and I mean it kinda is true as well
And in that note openai buying up all the hbm or gddr7/6 would make sense but not just going around buying everything vaguely ram.
Ram and storage prices were steadily falling even during the ai craze, untill they didn’t.
I do kind of regret not impulse buying that 2x64GB kit when it was 240bucks XD.
Same 
I’ve heard somewhere that it’s the manufacturers stockpiling the chips in anticipation of big data centers being built.
If true, we might see even cheaper ram once the bubble inevitably bursts
That is likely but probably not in a form useful to most of us at least if it doesn’t burtst before the ram actually gets used. Of course a lot of it is also everyone else panic hoarding which may calm down over time, it could also get worse so it’s really hard to make calls. It may well be the cheapest it is going to be for years right now or the prices may crash below all time low in a couple months.
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent XD
Yeah, like the frickin GPU market. I’m still waiting to buy something at a good price after my 1080 Ti 
I jumped the gun and got a 7900xtx, should have waited another generation in hindsight.
MicroCenter has stock. Prices have increased, but less than on other platforms. I had to go in-person to get any, but I suppose that makes sense.
I’m afraid that since AI is kinda holding up the economy (or at least a large part of it), a burst may make it even less possible to buy RAM, or anything to be quite frank. Hopefully, things in the market or really in the economy in general calm down before things get too crazy.
Calm up is 100x worse than collapse. Everyone loses is still better than letting them win.
TBH if things gets worse we could at least just stop buying new computers. There are tons, literally tons, old but working computer being thrown away due to windows 10’s EOL thanks to those people being paranoid into believing EOL equals unusable
I will never not upvote Stargate. In other news, have you heard about the new series that has been greenlit by Amazon?!
I’m glad I got my 96GB when I did.
You can chalk it up to pure paranoia in my case, but I’m glad to say that I bought my ram and storage ahead of time for fear that it would go up in price. But I certainly didn’t expect by this much, and if you had asked me I would’ve bet the SSDs would be the thing that jumped if anything.
Got an idea, what if we make a ddr3 to ddr5 adapter? (besides sparky sparky boom boom)
Appart from the sparky issues (ddr5 uses on board regulation and gets fed 5v while ddr3 wants like 1.8v) the memory controller won’t know how to deal with it. And even if it did it would be extremely slow.
So around mid September I was talking to a family member about a massive project I wanted to undertake over the next year or so; a few weeks removed from that I was surprised when they basically said “do it now” and provided the means to get the stuff..
That (around mid to late october now)was when I discovered the Ram prices were a bit higher then I expected, I put it off a few days planning to put it off entirely until black friday… Then on a lucky whim when in 2 days I say the price go up further I googled the situation and discovered what was going on…
I then immediately bought what I needed for my project as it was more then what I wanted to pay sure, but not more then I //COULD// pay, but it was clear it soon would be beyond what I could pay if I didn’t act fast.
Now I have 3 96Gig kits sitting in a box waiting for my turn in the mainboard pre-order line to come due upon which I intend to turn 3 FW16 mainboards and their associated accessories (like this ram) into a blade server setup. I plan for the chassis the “blades” fit into to have a NAS (already purchased and functional; there were issues there and a return for a new unit had to be had, but that’s now resolved) and 10Gig networking between the blades themselves and also that aforementioned NAS.
The case situation for this idea is still in flux, I have a minds eye view of what I want, and a brand new 3d printer and multiple types of high strength filaments to try for this… but Modeling such things and printing them; I have never done before so not sure how that will play out.
Tangent aside (sorry for the ramble) I got lucky I googled why the price was going up when I did and was able to buy the Ram and Storage I needed when the upward trend was clear but not yet far along; the kits I bought had gone up about 50~100 from their lowest when I purchased them, but sense I purchased them they have about double (maybe more) from the price I paid.
