Question DDR5 Availability

[TechFan1]

Anyone know when DDR5 will actually be available to buy. It almost seems like nobody is manufacturing DDR5. I'm assuming RAM manufacturers can't use the same equipment to make DDR5 as DDR4, otherwise I'm not sure why they wouldn't be increasing DDR5 production with the premium they would get.

 

[dlerious]

My two 16GB (8GB x 2) where $100 each when buying them along with my Z690 motherboard and 12900K on release day Nov. 4th.

I bought them late in the day at 6PM. Had scalpers known about them I'm sure they would have been gone soon after the store opened.

I think the Team sticks were around $280 and the Gigabyte were $330 (5200 C40)

 

[lyonwonder]

Maybe motherboard makers ought to do what Intel did early in the Pentium 4-era 20 years ago with RDRAM and bundle their DDR5 boards with DDR5. It's fortune Intel had the foresight to include DDR4 support in Alder Lake's memory controller, otherwise motherboard manufacturers would be contemplating something like this.

 

[Hotrod2go]

Out of 3 popular online retailers in Australia - PC case gear, Centrecom & MSY; only 1 of them has 1 kit of DDR5 available & its Centrecom. This after my post in this thread from 1 Dec.
Glad I didn't go down the DDR5 route when upgrading recently.

 

[Spicedaddy]

Newegg Canada has some in stock (supposedly), selling for 1.5X the MSRP and forcing you to buy a crappy motherboard with it.

They can keep it, I'll wait for a retailer that doesn't scalp their merchandise.