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
In a year, they'll be a glut and prices will have collapsed.
That and some of the free2play games nowadays are actually pretty decent so worst case scenario I can always play those on a budget system.
So I spec'd out a new build and suggested out of it all the CPU/MB/RAM and he could reuse other parts. She looked over the list and said, "Nah. I'll just get it all." She purchased everything at the start of the month and all parts came in about a week ago.
Fast forward to today, the RAM she purchased went from $180 (2x16GB DDR5) to $400.
The 2TB nvme went up a little, about $20 and the GPU went up a little, about $20. Everything else was priced about the same. If she waited the cost would have gone up almost $300.
The RAM prices are stupid insane. Glad my brother got his new parts before prices started really spiking out of control.
When SSD prices went up two years ago, a moderator here went on an explanation of how that's a good thing for consumer sector - that we'll get new fabrication processes, better price per TB, finally larger drives now that revenues will go up for makers, that SSDs were too cheap and they weren't making enough profit.
Well, two years later an look how perfectly correct they were - prices are going up again, and all the companies have basically stopped talking about consumer sector. Previously they bragged about new processes that were just around the corner, just a couple of months away - for years. Now they have stopped even that.
So yeah, I can't wait what the companies will make for us consumers with all that money!