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How to survive the memory shortage crisis: a PC owner's guide
📰 Jon Martindale
👤 Jon Martindale
🕒 2026-06-26 23:02:19
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文章指出DDR5内存和显卡VRAM价格高企，导致Steam Machine、手持PC及下一代VR头显面临严重涨价压力。提及2018年显卡挖矿热潮、2011年泰国洪水引发的硬盘短缺等历史硬件价格波动事件。
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Urgh. Have you seen memory prices lately? If you somehow haven’t, make sure to look through your fingers, as they are truly terrifying. DDR5 RAM sticks are
ungodly expensive
, older DDR4's not much better, high VRAM
graphics cards
are ridiculous, and any PC hardware that includes at least one of these (which is a lot) is suffering ludicrous price hikes in turn. That
includes the new Steam Machine
, while handheld PCs are being
stripped of affordable options
, and next-gen,
standalone VR headsets
are unlikely to do much better.
But we’re been here before, right? We made it through the crypto-mining-induced GPU price spikes of 2018, the 2011 hard drive shortages caused by
flooding in Thailand
, and the pandemic-driven PC surge. Remember the Discord stock alerts? The retailer lotteries? The waiting lines for
websites?
We can do this. We can weather the storm of new memory price hikes. But we don’t have to do it in silence. We don’t need to damn our enthusiasm for the PCs that play our PC games. There are ways to still upgrade and improve your rig, and its gaming prowess, even with memory prices as ridiculous as they are.
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ungodly expensive
, older DDR4's not much better, high VRAM
graphics cards
are ridiculous, and any PC hardware that includes at least one of these (which is a lot) is suffering ludicrous price hikes in turn. That
includes the new Steam Machine
, while handheld PCs are being
stripped of affordable options
, and next-gen,
standalone VR headsets
are unlikely to do much better.
But we’re been here before, right? We made it through the crypto-mining-induced GPU price spikes of 2018, the 2011 hard drive shortages caused by
flooding in Thailand
, and the pandemic-driven PC surge. Remember the Discord stock alerts? The retailer lotteries? The waiting lines for
websites?
We can do this. We can weather the storm of new memory price hikes. But we don’t have to do it in silence. We don’t need to damn our enthusiasm for the PCs that play our PC games. There are ways to still upgrade and improve your rig, and its gaming prowess, even with memory prices as ridiculous as they are.
Read more