also to give an idea how bad this is, check the historical pricing

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/q7LdnQ/kin...f560c30bbek2-32
in a 2 year period, this particular ram kit was sold for $110 usd but is now $289 so doubled in pricing in some places.

But we mostly buy local, so i just gave an example from shopee.

I bought around august 2025, prices was still ok then. But this November 2025 things went to hell.
so unless you have no choice to buy ram, you should refrain and wait it out. not good time to buy right now 

not only DDR5. even DDR4 price is double now.
last time i bought 64GB DDR4 3200MHz ~ RM451.
now it become ~ RM1151

DDR4 still got "life" thanks to intel late going all in during DDR5.
im using crucial pro DDR4. so for the next 2 slot, i plan to use the same crucial pro. try to mix with existing ram (2x8GB), unable to boot.

yes, but alderlake still support ddr4 right? if im not mistaken, at that time many techtuber suggest to stay with DDR4. 

run at JEDEC as Dell does not support XMP.
thats why i plan to buy the same series and capacity, to max it to 128GB. too late already.

graphic card prices also affected because of it 

u want to seek refuge with the slower ddr5 kits, those got jacked up as well 

i see pc partpicker price history and my recent purchase in august. so barely escaped 

bought 2 kits. 1 for my truenas and another for desktop pc. so i'm good for many years now 
malaysia is also doing the AI stuff including providing power for it

planning to build a new pc soon-ish. just wondering if the RAM prices here are also affected or not

even if u wanted to get a slower ram thinking u can get better prices, seems that wont save u much either.

if u really really need to upgrade, then just cough up the money (what choice do u have?). if not, i dont know how long u will need to wait. a while back, ram prices were high for quite a long time, and only many many years later did prices become saner again. so i sus it will be like that, or maybe not. problem is the AI data centers to be blamed for this 

may want to test ur ram that no issues. 24 hours? or 3 days? should be more than sufficient. the default 4 pass test is not long enough for a proper test 

actually i found this kingston with my motherboard very good

KINGSTON FURY BEAST 32GB (2X16GB) 6000MT/s DDR5 CL30 AMD EXPO RAM - KF560C30BBEK2-32

MSI MAG X870 Tomahawk Wifi
In the reviews this combination of motherboard and ram kit was very stable. I even put setting to tightest no issue. But i kept it at 6000 mhz.

For bios i also did undervolt with PBO enabled. all cores undervolt -20 (-30 was instant crash. but -20 stable for many months no issues even during loads. tested with OCCT and the other benchmark)

that said the wifi drivers for this msi motherboard including the NIC ethernet 5g is BAD. so i can't recommend this particular motherboard to others 

i did a dump log, i specifically flagged the qualcom fastconnect drivers for the motherboard wifi causing bsod crash after waking from sleep.

at one point i managed to get it to work without crashing, with the driver installed.

but now it's back to crashing after i removed old drivers causing errors in event viewer (different drivers, not the wifi). So after that, the wifi drivers starts bugging out again. a bit frustrating 
bluetooth still works at least. for wired, i bought an addon card for sfp+ 10g, i use fiber to my switch. So i bypass the bad 5gbe realtek nic.

the particular motherboard also doesn't do x8 and x16 for the spare pcie slots. so i had to buy a sfp+ pcie x4 that worked on this motherboard. I tested a sfp+ pcie x8, that didn't work.

some people said the X870E for this tomahawk is more stable, but i donno, since i don't have it.
anyway as for ram, on hardware unboxed they did a bunch of testing comparing how well ram ran on those motherboards. this x870 tomahawk got the ddr5-8000 expo validation to pass. I don't use 8000 but they did the test saying it would work with this motherboard, so thats how well ddr5 would work with it is what i meant.

oo this motherboard people also complained aboit the audio dac being not the best. but i use edifier usb speakers which uses it's own internal dac, so that's how i bypassed that particular issue. i heard though that the latest realtek audio drivers solved whatever audio issue it had. i just didn't confirm it myself.

after 7 hours, my 32GB DDR4 stick got 106 errors.

planning something but after seeing those ram prices, might as well build am4 and wait until it goes back to normal. might not be able to recover so fast since all storage are at low stock will take years to

my ram timings is tightest. the youtuber said do that. i did and seems stable so i left it at that. i'm using the expo profile for the OC. so i think profile 1? 6000 mhz

its a single 32GB stick. run each test one stick at a time.
2nd stick pass.
Dell UEFI did not have any ram setting, so it run on jedec speed of 2933MHz.

it work fine since december 2024. in uefi, no option to setting RAM speed at all.

for anyone wondering.

i'm fine with the expo 6000 MT profile setting and also set to tighest (if tightest cause bsod u need to adjust. for me apparently it was fine).
u need a motherboard that can support ddr5 8000 and is STABLE. mine based on hardware unboxed is, but i got the 6000 since the bang for buck build said that was what to get so i did