I got rather lucky with my purchase timing, tho I was just getting more RAM to deal with my 1300 Firefox tabs.

My friend who built 128GB home server in 2024.

I did my rebuild before January 2025 cause I thought DJT was going to fuck up world trade, I underestimated how shitty the AI Bros are.

I have 16GB of VRAM too, baybee.

I live in fear one of the memories will stop working

I just bought 24gb of ram (I work in IT and it’s always good to have some extra 8gb sticks).

it got stolen since the USPS delivery person couldn’t be bothered to follow directions and leave it inside. and I can’t get my money back :(

Now i feel poor

My 2023 framework 16 is rocking 64gb.

2024 I built my NAS with 2 x 16gb sticks, 2 x 32gb sticks for 94?gb of RAM. I got lucky.

Same with drives 14tb ironwolf pros, £200-220 each now £400+ each and I need 5 more of the fuckers.

I’m currently in the middle of building a ITX machine for my partner so she can play games with me. Ran into a mate of mine the other night who due to a mix up at the retailer had a spare 16gb kit of brand new DDR5-5200 and was looking at selling it on Marketplace. He fucking hates Meta (good bloke) and said for mates rates he’d give it to me for AUD $200 just so he didn’t have to reinstall Facebook.

Fucking sold. Same kit is currently “on special” for $369 on the site he bought it from. Prices are fucked.

For me it was just concidence that I got my work laptop before the prices went up. I cannot imagine what I would be using for the same budget a couple of months later.

I bought a macbook pro m5 max with 128gb ram in June before the most recent 20% price increase

Decided to go for it at that time as I wanted to experiment with running LLMs locally and as a hedge against rising RAM prices

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

64Gb gang shout out!

Edit: Its now an investment!