32GB DDR5 is currently priced at $375. AI shortages continue to put pressure on PC builds.

As the AI requirements continue to consume production capacities at all levels of the PC hardware supply chain, 32 GB DDR5-RAM – generally considered ideal for gaming PCs and enthusiast PCs – are no longer found for less than 375 US dollars. Well, $374.97 to be exact. Tracking RAM prizes up to 2026 will show you that kits that routinely cost less than 100 US dollars a year ago now bring over 240 US dollars (16 GB). As the AI-Rausch has kept in, retailers around the world have increased their RAM prices to an exorbitant level. However, there are so many fluctuations and troubles that the average pricing has become a ridiculous conclusion. The common price for 32 GB DDR5-RAM – the cheapest you can expect – has been around $320 for some time and has risen to over $350 in recent weeks. A price tracking with kind permission from PCPartPicker now shows that the cheapest 32-GB DDR5-RAM you can buy costs 375 US dollars. Specifically, you get back with four XPOWER kits from Silicon Power thanks to an action code 374.97 US dollars. You can view the lists below yourself. - Silicon Power Zenith Gaming DDR5 6000MT/s (PC5-48000) CL36 32GB (2x16GB)

- Silicon Power Zenith RGB DDR5 6000MT/s (PC5-48000) CL36 32GB (2x16GB)

- Silicon Power Pulse Gaming DDR5 6000MT/s (PC5-48000) CL36 32GB (2x16GB)

- Silicon Power Zenith RGB DDR5 6000MT/s (PC5-48000) CL36 32GB (2x16GB)

As you can imagine, this is an enormous price pressure for enthusiasts who want to build or upgrade their systems in 2026 gaming PCs. A component that once cost less than $100 and has been installed later costs almost four times, and that before you have even triggered a neuron for aesthetic, temporal or brand-related reasons. More popular kits from Corsair and Crucial or RGB offers that match the rest of your builds will cost you more than $400. Of course, 32 GB are really the minimum you should strive to build a PC in 2026. If you want more capacity, you pay for 64 GB amazing $679.99. There are 16 GB of RAM as a compromise for 200 US dollars at B&H Photo, but as SK Hynix warns that the production restrictions will stop by 2030, there is no sign that prices will decrease so that you can upgrade the capacity in the foreseeable time. The modest RAM combination offers that we have highlighted in recent months are a small comfort for builders, as they allow you to get RAM for less than $375 if you combine it with a decent motherboard, a processor or even a whole set of PC components. A topic of ongoing Computex 2026 announcements remains the lack of price clarity for many PC hardware, including Nvidias RTX Spark laptops and PCs as well as newly built systems and of course the RAM components themselves. Providers are likely to be cautious to deter potential buyers with prices above expectations before publication. Perhaps it is more likely that prices have not yet been fixed because they are still rising. The memory is not much better because the price tracking of SSDs shows that drives that once cost only 38 US dollars now cost 200 US dollars. AMD makes considerable efforts to keep prices low for PC games, and this week announces the return of its Ryzen 7 5800X3D and the introduction of a new Ryzen 7700X3D. Intel, who warned this week that “something has to yield” when it comes to storage prices, also announced to take some of his legacy products from the program to provide users with more options for older storage technologies, namely Raptor Lake and DDR4. Get the best news and detailed reviews of Tom's hardware right into your inbox. Stephen is the news editor of Tom's Hardware with almost a decade of technology industry experience and has over the years with TechRadar, iMore and even Apple work. He has covered the world of consumer technology from almost all angles, including rumors about the supply chain, patents, litigation and more. If he is not at work, he likes to read about history and plays video games. -

‘Sales are likely to be cautious to deter potential buyers with prices above expectations before publication. “Addresses

What do they think that buyers who do not know the price up to publication suddenly raise the wish to buy at absurdly high prices? I think they do not want to disclose prices, because they know that the prices they give today will probably not be enough at the time of publication and they will increase prices further. Either way, these providers should be better aware that they are being bullied. People don't buy anymore. Quite revealing when I went to the microcenter last week and the shelves with RAM, SSDs and GPUs were overcrowded. -

Amazon In the United Kingdom alone, there are over 10 TAUSEND TERABYTE unsold DDR5 RAM. But prices are still increased.Requests

I can only imagine how many millions of Terabyte unsold DDR5 there are in the rest of the world. The price increase is 100% fraud.