While us mere mortals are stuck facing the aftermath of the AI boom with soaring DDR5 prices and dwindling inventoriesa chance hunter on Reddit has bagged possibly the best deal we’ve seen in a while. A fully-fledged, high-end custom gaming PC with all the bells and whistles — including, most importantly, 64 GB of DDR5 RAM — that would cost at least $2,500 to build right now. Our lucky buyer? They got it for just $600 at a pawn shop in Portugal, and that’s negotiated down from $750!
This win was posted by u/uneektnt on the r/pcmasterrace subreddit, where they unwittingly hoped it’s “decent enough for some games,” not knowing the beast they’d just acquired. Specs-wise, we’re looking at a Core i9-14900KS processor, the best consumer chip Intel has made to date (yes, it beats Arrow Lake). That’s paired with Nvidia’s RTX 4070 Ti Super, a proper 4K-capable GPU that churns through 1440p-Ultra gaming like butter.
If that weren’t already crazy enough, the PC also came with 64 GB (32GB x 2) of T-Force Delta RGB 6000 MT/s memory that’s sitting at a casual $689.99 on Newegg right now — so, the entire PC was cheaper than just the cost of the RAM. To put that into perspective, this exact same kit cost less than $200 a few months ago. Aside from RAM, storage has also seen massive surges but, unfortunately, u/uneektnt didn’t disclose that info, though we can at least see an M.2 SSD mounted in the pictures.
Taking to PC Part Picker, kitting out a similar system turned up a value of about $1,800 without a GPU, which we left out since most RTX 4070 Ti Super variants are overpriced right now. Generally, street pricing for this card floats around the $800 mark, and the cheapest we could find was a $979 PNY model. Regardless, you’re looking at over $2,500 of parts that this lucky buyer was able to snag for almost one-fifth of its worth.
With that, the duology is complete: both a PS5 and, somehow, a high-end PC are cheaper than 64 GB of DDR5 RAM. Even if memory prices weren’t in a doozy, this is an incredible deal that would’ve cost at least twice as much in routine times. It also serves as a nice contrast to a previous story where someone traded 192 GB of memory for an RTX 5070 Tiwhich is a worse deal than it sounds.
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