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RAM Price Guides

In progress — publishing soon

DDR4 is mature, abundant, and cheap. DDR5 prices have dropped but the sweet spot is still used DDR4 at 3200–3600MHz. We'll track the market and tell you when to buy and when to wait.

// coming up

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RAM · DDR4 Live
DDR4-2666 16GB
The budget floor. eBay floor $43. FBMP floor $40. Runs at spec on every LGA1700 board.
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RAM · DDR4 Live
DDR4-3200 16GB
The single-stick strategy wins. Two 8GB sticks at $25 each beats every kit listing on eBay.
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// live now

Start here while you wait

GPU · Pascal · 2017
GTX 1080 Ti
11GB VRAM at ~$97 used. Current eBay listings, Linux driver guide, and Ollama benchmarks. Our first live hero page.
~$85–110 used · 🟢 BUY · CUDA · 535.xx LTS
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Why good enough hardware, owned outright, running open software beats anything you rent from someone else.
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