These price hikes do fun things to the whole market.

In one of the last GPU booms I sold some ancient video card (recovered from a PC they were literally going to put in the trash) for $50.

And it wasn’t because it was special for running vintage games. The people that usually went for 1st rate gpus went to 2nd rate. Pushing the 2nd rate buyers to 3rd rate, creating a market for my 4th rate gpu.

I was looking att filling my EPYC servers empty slots, what I paid $90/stick 2-3 years ago is now $430

I picked a really bad time to start working on a DIY mini-NAS. A ram upgrade is more than what I paid for the whole Thinkcentre M720q.