Tuesday, November 25th 2025
Skyrocketing DRAM Prices Hit CyberPower Prebuilt PCs
It's no secret that DRAM prices have recently skyrocketed thanks to supply chain and fulfillment issues, and the effects of those price increases have already started to echo across the consumer market, with brands like Framework already pausing direct-to-consumer RAM sales. Now, however, CyberPowerPC has announced that it will be increasing prices of its pre-built desktop PCs as a result of increasing component costs. The exact price increase that will be applied when the increase happens is unclear, although, as we have pointed out before, prices for AMD's GPUs are also slated to increase by as much as 10%.
According to CyberPowerPC's post on X, the system integrator will effectuate a price increase across all of its SKUs on December 7, 2025. CyberPowerPC blames not only RAM prices, which it says have increased by 500%, but also cites a 100% increase in SSD prices. CyberPowerPC says these increased costs have been a factor for prebuilt PCs since October 1, 2025. Another common culprit for the increase in DRAM price and lack of availability is the demand for AI compute—a theory substantiated by recent CounterPoints Research projections. Currently, prices of server DRAM and LPDDR5X, commonly found in laptops, mini PCs, and gaming handhelds, are expected to double in 2026.
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CyberPowerPC on X
According to CyberPowerPC's post on X, the system integrator will effectuate a price increase across all of its SKUs on December 7, 2025. CyberPowerPC blames not only RAM prices, which it says have increased by 500%, but also cites a 100% increase in SSD prices. CyberPowerPC says these increased costs have been a factor for prebuilt PCs since October 1, 2025. Another common culprit for the increase in DRAM price and lack of availability is the demand for AI compute—a theory substantiated by recent CounterPoints Research projections. Currently, prices of server DRAM and LPDDR5X, commonly found in laptops, mini PCs, and gaming handhelds, are expected to double in 2026.
34 Comments on Skyrocketing DRAM Prices Hit CyberPower Prebuilt PCs
Big oof...
That being said, I also have fun putting together older systems from scrap parts. You never know what hardware your local recycling center may have laying around or what you could do with it.Anyone who hasnt should play the PS2 catalog. There are nearly 80 years worth of content, only maybe 20 if you played the most popular ones.
honestly i really am set for life at this point, its kind of wild.
Maybe enough for a shiny GPU to sit on till DDR7 :laugh:
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Most people don’t do memory upgrade, and total PC shipment growth is modest compared to COVID days. Besides, PCs aren’t the primary consumer electronics for memory demand, that title goes to smartphones.
The timing is just bad overall. Steam machine may end up being the best valued way to play pc games afterall.
go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/11/26/dell_q3_2026/
2026 is gonna be ugly.
Doubt it though.
So expect every type of memory to become more expensive eventually, it doesn't natter if it's used in AI servers or how old it is.
There won't be stabilisation for a long time after the potential AI bubble burst (which I think might not even happen, no matter the downsides - we're planning our whole society around it).
Cryptomadness was short and low value compared to this, and it raised the cost of x80 Nvidia card from $700 to $1200 after the burst. And we got reviewers telling us this is a good deal, because the prices were higher during cryptocraze.
Shareholders will demand as high revenue as possible, there won't be "now the capacities are free, we can offer large quantities of cheap items again".