I'm probably going to sound very ungrateful here. A port in a storm, a flashlight in a cave, a spring in a desert; you should always appreciate the small victories in life, but there's a certain degree of irony to Corsair running a 25% sale on its best RAM for gaming right now.We're in the middle of a RAM pricing apocalypse due to AI stealing the world's supply, so prices have inflated by gargantuan margins. Where 16GB of DDR5 would have cost you $65.99 at Amazon before, it'll now set you back a torturous $249.99 at Amazon - a whole 309% pricing increase over what was a very affordable upgrade for your gaming PC.
Corsair is doing what it can to alleviate these stupid, awful, rubbish pricing woes by running a sale that's exclusive to its own website. It offers you a (brace yourself) 25% off any of the RAM available over there, which is both beautifully generous at this particular point in time and also a laughable excuse for anyone to call a "discount". Maybe I'm just bitter at the sheer margins AI infrastructure is impacting all sorts of consumer markets, but come on. 25% off is not going to do an awful lot to make the $1,071 price of 64GB of DDR5 any easier in reality. You still shouldn't consider paying $800 for some computer memory after a 25% reduction. While I'm one of those weirdos who is actually kind of fond of RAM, even I wouldn't argue you're going to notice serious performance increases from that kind of purchase when gaming compared to spending the same amount on a new graphics card or processor.But on balance, a few of these offers aren't a complete waste of time. The one I've highlighted above does help to bring an entry level set of memory sticks down to a somewhat helpful price (by today's standards). I still want to vomit at the thought of recommending you 16GB of DDR5 for over $150, but desperate times call for desperate measures, I guess.
