If you were planning to give your PC a huge memory boost, you've unfortunately missed the boat. The era of sky-high memory prices is here to stay for the foreseeable future.
As VideoCardz reports, some 192GB kits of memory will now cost you over $2,250. We've been tracking the rising price of DDR5 memory over the past few months, and some kits have seen price increases of nearly 200% since the start of summer.
That's usually the case for the smaller 16GB and 32GB kits, which are popular among consumers. However, the price rises are also affecting larger kits. At this point, getting close to 200GB of memory is more expensive than buying the world's most powerful graphics card.
VideoCardz cites Corsair's 4-stick 192GB Vengeance modules (running at a mere 5,200 MT/s) with a price tag of $2,249. That's over $200 more than the MSRP for Nvidia's RTX 5090, although the Nvidia GPU also now sells for between $2,500 and $3,000. It may not be long before RTX graphics cards are consistently che...
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