This is a great time to just not upgrade anything unless forced to do so.
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I cant wait for the AI bubble to burst.
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Me crying when my damn 96gb kit ended up having issues. Having random freezing on my proxmox nuc which I thought was due to overheating CPU since it happened after a while at first during handbrake encoding, but after more tests it also happened pretty quickly so ruled out CPU overheating and went and checked with memtest86+ and it reported 2 errors..
Gonna see if i can return this…already ordered another 96gb kit from amazon for 400 usd…
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Exactly this. I actually lucked out on components by buying almost everything earlier in the year, but I didn’t wait long enough to get my GPU and ended up paying well below ceiling prices but not the almost-retail they have dropped to since [for a 5070ti, at least]. I made my purchases based on market trends as they stood since no one has 100% foresight, so I bought in when I thought the value was good enough for what I was getting (and would get enough years out of it to justify the upgrade). My recent M.2 upgrade was because of the forecast that prices for THAT would be exploding like RAM was due to AI blahblahblah panic. I also wanted the increase in space on my primary drive (2tb to 4tb) so it was a long-time coming anyway.
Amen.
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How long has it been, 7-8 years since the DRAM pricing cartel investigations? I don’t think it’s just the AI thing, there’s no indications that builds are going to be significantly greater next year than they were this year.
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https://videocardz.com/newz/chinese-cxmt-to-produce-ddr5-8000-and-lpddr5x-10667-memory
A small light in the dark?
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Got new kit and it boots with both stick!
Praying memtest86+ clears it with zero issues. 
Ghetto ram heatsink mod.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003421838480.html
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000459445136.html
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006702089543.html
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002842166246.html
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CPU temps around 90c during intense cpu work with my nuc (video encoding) and nvme at 62c. Temps dropped to around 81c for the cpu and 42c for the nvme with my 120mm fan aimed at it.
This with TDP at 28W (stock) with the Intel Ultra 125H.
Highly recommend this.
Auto scans your whole network and creates a diagram of it.
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Well after a few months i am finally ready to start fully migrating my hdds over to my unraid nas from the synology.
The restoration speed seems insanely fast testing with my smallest data folder. Considering it is stored in a single HDD and being restored to a single HDD.
supposedly Crucial is getting shut down so Micron can focus on selling RAM to AI companies
Yup…rip ram and nvme.
https://www.reuters.com/business/micron-exit-crucial-consumer-memory-business-2025-12-03/
iirc micron is one of the 3 big producers of ram so…this ramageddon will be going on for a few years i think…
Early estimate I saw is that with Crucial being gone, that’s ~15% of the consumer RAM market wiped out overnight. I agree that things are going to get far dumber before they normalize again…
2026 aint gonna be fun for tech…
Was looking forward to see the AMD Zen 6 vs Intel Panther Lake fight but now im wondering if this ram crisis will affect them.
edit: this will also affect DAPS as well…
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And phones, and consoles and probably anything that uses RAM. It’d be nice if we see another company rise up to handle fab for consumer products but that will take a while assuming that it’s from scratch.
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Yeah, anything with DRAM in it will be affected. Phones will likely see some big price increases since they have RAM and I think their storage is also flash (dram) based…
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Guys give me more context about this, and please correct me if I have some mistakes about it in terms of the information that I got. Apparently Micron the company, with their brand for consumers Crucial, is apparently pulling out now after 30 years. That is just an overall bitch move when they also apparently stated that they are no longer giving us the consumers their products when it comes to their RAMs and SSDs, meaning they are gonna focus selling their stuff on AI slop.
I think it’s safe to say from this point on, I am not buying anything from Crucial ever again, if there’s ever a time that they are like “We’re back everyone, we are here selling our stuff again to you.” Fuck you Micron, you don’t deserve shit after that move. In fact fuck every greedy corporate bootlicker condoning this AI bullshit trend.
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I think its a little harsh but yes its not a great move, It’s not the Crucial folks fault - my guess is that Crucial were told by micron “Hi, So ram is selling for a shit-load of money, so consumer margins arent enough, so all your allocations are going to servers”
What im more worried about is who is gonna cover their warranty….
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Yeah its sad…
If im reading this correctly they have 25% of the market…just gone like that…
yeah that is definitely a good question…
RAMarmageddon aint getting better anytime soon…
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Based on the internal memo that leaked, yep, that’s about what happened:
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