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cknobman "Vendors are likely wary of scaring off potential buyers with higher-than-expected prices ahead of release." What do they think that buyers not finding out the price until release is suddenly going to make want to buy at absurdly high prices? I think they dont want to announce pricing because they know that whatever pricing they announce today will likely not be enough come release time and they will raise prices further. Either way these vendors better realize they are going to be screwed. People are not buying anymore. Pretty telling when I went to Microcenter last week and their shelves were overflowing with RAM, SSD's, and GPU's. Reply
micheal_15 Amazon Alone has over 10 THOUSAND TERABYTES of unsold DDR5 RAM in the UK. But still prices keep being ramped up. I can only imagine how many millions of terabytes of unsold DDR5 there is across the rest of the world. The price increase is 100% a scam. Reply
PEnns Please stop posting such hurtful headlines. We have enough pain already. Reply
Dementoss I bought 32 GB DDR4 last May, because it was cheap, intending to upgrade to AM5 early next year. That upgrade has gone out the window now. I will wait for prices to drop, then just go for AM6. Reply
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