RAM prices going absolutely crazy has tanked motherboard sales by like 40 to 50 percent compared to last year, and the big vendors like ASUS and MSI are getting wrecked during what should be their best season. DDR5 kits are selling for two to four times what they used to cost, which means people who were planning builds or upgrades are just sitting on their hands instead of buying anything.
The whole industry shifted to DDR5-only platforms with the latest AMD and Intel chips, and that worked fine when memory was cheap earlier in the year. But anyone trying to grab more RAM or build a fresh rig is either waiting it out or settling for old hardware that sucks by comparison. CPU sales are probably tanking alongside motherboards since nobody wants to buy a processor without the memory to go with it, and this mess looks like it's just getting started.
The whole industry shifted to DDR5-only platforms with the latest AMD and Intel chips, and that worked fine when memory was cheap earlier in the year. But anyone trying to grab more RAM or build a fresh rig is either waiting it out or settling for old hardware that sucks by comparison. CPU sales are probably tanking alongside motherboards since nobody wants to buy a processor without the memory to go with it, and this mess looks like it's just getting started.
