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Duncan Robertson

DDR5 RAM is on the brink of 2020 GPU-style price inflation, and AI is to blame

XPG Lancer RGB DDR5's RGB lighting inside a gaming PC.

There are already a lot of reasons to hate the AI boom. Take your pick, is it the detrimental and possibly irreversible impacts it's having on the environment? Is it the massive increase in data farming that's happening to train all of the AI models? If it's neither of those, I'm about to give gaming PC enthusiasts a whole new reason to hate AI.

It's taken years for DDR5 RAM to come down in price to the point where gamers feel it's actually worth upgrading to. Yes, new DDR5 RAM means a new motherboard and CPU if you're still stuck on DDR4, but it was finally getting to the point where you could easily find 16GB or 32GB of some of the best RAM for gaming for under $100 / £100.

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