128GB DDR4 3080TI rig from 2022 still going strong, I feel I timed this well.
I bought my somewhat high-end PC in late 2025, two months before RAMageddon. Two people advised me against it. They said it wasn’t a good time to buy because prices were already a bit high. I’m glad I didn’t follow their advice.
I bought my machine a week before the true ramocalypse. Prices were high, and 128GB of RAM was like 30% of my budget already, but literally the following week prices rose to the point that I would not have been able to afford any of that
Fuck AI
Decommissioned VM host my company was getting ready to toss out.
It’s all DDR4, but even that shit is expensive now.
This must be what it feels like to have bought a house in the 1970s
And those of us with servers pray every day a stick won’t fail. But at least people can talk to robots and make slop on demand…
My NAS is starting to act up and I have no idea what I’m going to do. I’ve got it all backed up but it’s basically deep cold storage (hard drive at a friend’s house in a different state). When it goes I’m cooked.
Yeah a drive failure is my biggest worry now. 12TB drives aren’t cheap. Luckily I got an extra when prices started going up as a warm backup.
I have a backup R740 that I got in case I needed the extra capacity. It’s my donor now, or could be my retirement plan since it has 256GB in it.
Back in '22 I bought 64gb of ram because I wanted to have all my slots populated. For aesthetic purposes.
Yup that’s pretty much me… “Well I’ve got these ports and RAM isn’t expensive so let’s go!”
Haven’t yet needed it really but it’s nice to know it’s there.
People who built 32+gb ram systems in 2026:
Bought 128GB for €140 a couple years back, amazing deal looking back.
I have three 32gb ddr5 PCs, trying to sell one for $600 but crypto bros keep offering $350 because “Chatgpt said so”
Price is 900 for mentioning ai
This reminds me of the screenshot where ChatGPT doubted a parts list the user gave it, because the RAM cost more than the CPU.
My friend who built 128GB home server in 2024.
256 GB DDR4 here, kinda considering selling some of it now…
Your RAM accidentally became a retirement fund.
Wow, what’d you get all that for? Opening 5+ Chrome tabs?
The pc (server) was used, and the seller asked 100$ to double it from 128 GB to 256 GB.
More space for CFD and path tracing, and for personnal projects. Also it’s fun to install games to a ramdisk for a laugh.
…and to finally install all the Cities Skylines and Rimworld mods.
I’ll bet the seller is kicking themselves right about now for that.
I live in fear one of the memories will stop working
I’ve lost a lot more than one.
I can’t quite figure out the timeline of the jobs I’ve had. Memories of things that happened on those jobs don’t line up with when I think I was on the jobs. I feel like I have the order all mixed up.
Recently, I was trying to remember the name of one of my old girlfriends. I can picture her clearly, but her name is gone. It will probably come to me at some point.
This is shit you think about when you get old. If you want to remember these things, start a journal, and keep it. You think you can’t possibly forget, but you do.
(Yeah, I know you meant memory sticks.)
I got a 12 GB RAM S10…
…not long after, I hear the news that the new flagships will have 12 GB RAM instead of 16 that were planned.
The value sure went up.
As one of those people I am decided not interesting in being represented by that…
I still have 32 GB of DDR in my drawer from when I upgraded to 64. I am too afraid to sell it because my current ram might break.
