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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-13T09:28:56.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "RAM Price History | Historical DRAM Prices 1957-Present",
    "https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/"
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  "textContent": "IMO wait a few months for RAM and VRAM prices to go down. Prices went up because the news claimed there were contracts to buy 12 months worth of 90% of production of VRAM and SSDs from major manufacturers. Well, OpenAI did not have a contract, it had a letter of intent, which it has recently broken. In West Virginia monthly power bills are now more than peoples’ mortgages due to a local data center. Cities attract data centers to claim they created jobs but the regular people pay the bill.\n\nI think we’ll see more resistance to data centers, letters of intent will not become contracts for a few companies, and VRAM and SSD prices will come down.\n\nHere are some sites with price histories per unit of RAM/VRAM.\n\n  1. RAM Price History | Historical DRAM Prices 1957-Present\n  2. PC Part Picker. https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/\n  3. RAM Scout. https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/\n\n",
  "title": "GPU advice on 5080"
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