Just went through this today for my daughter- struggled to find an i5 not on pre-order, and the RAM was crippling- ended up going Ryzen 7 for a first time and 2x8Gb DDR5 6000 @ £119 - looking forward to building it with her!

Ryzen is the better choice anyway :)

Props on building a PC with your kid, I have very fond memories of doing that with my dad. Have fun!

Thanks :) very much looking forward to it! Maybe I’ll be a AMD convert after this!

This is really crazy. I built my first computer not too long ago; like I'm talking less than a month maybe, definitely less than 2. I paid $320 for 64GB Kit (CMK64GX5M2B5600C40) at Microcenter. It is now sold out in Chicago store and listed at $530.

$760 on NewEgg! Yeeezus Christ. Literally 50% of what I spent on the entire build just on RAM.

I bought that exact model on 11/1/2024 @ $164.99

Luckily I bought my extra 32G of DDR4 (now have 64G) used a while ago, only paid like 80€ for it. I remember back in like 2018 or so when I originally build this PC I got 4x4G DDR4 for like 160€ when prices were also crazy.

I bought 64GB of DDR5 two weeks ago. That same RAM is now twice the price.

I wish I would have done what you did. Especially since I wanted 128GB. Now I am probably going to settle for 64GB or maybe 96GB.

The better play would've been to buy Bay Area real estate in the 1970s, but what're you gonna do? lights cigarette

I wanted to build a gaming PC around summer, to be able play with my son, but I postponed it for no real reason. I built this PC a 2 weeks ago, so instead of paying 250 pln (~$70 usd) for 32 GB RAM, I paid 899 pln (~$250). Now, exactly the same RAM costs 1099 pln (~$300).

I bought 32GB x 2 of G.SKILL a year ago and paid $204. Now it's $600. Insane

Just checked my invoice from last year, $316 CAD for 2x32GB 5600MHz DDR5 ECC UDIMMs.

I'm now seeing $480 CAD for a single stick.

I just got one of the last beelink ser-8s with 64gb for $750. They sold out by the time my order arrived. The newer ones are starting around 830 for a 32gb machine (admittedly with newer everything)