These prebuilt PCs are about to cost more due to rising RAM prices
- Rising RAM prices are affecting prebuilt PC manufacturers, including CyberPowerPC, Maingear, and Skytech Gaming.
- The price of RAM has surged by 500% globally, while SSD prices have risen by 100%, impacting the cost of building gaming PCs.
- CyberPowerPC plans to adjust its pricing across all systems on December 7th due to the increased costs.
- Maingear CEO Wallace Santos is warning customers that prices may continue to rise and lead times may increase as stock becomes constrained.
- Customers are advised to “shop now” if they need a memory or storage upgrade, as shortages are expected to worsen in the coming months.
The skyrocketing price of RAM is trickling down to custom PC makers, including CyberPowerPC and Maingear. On Wednesday, CyberPowerPC announced that it plans to adjust the pricing across all of its systems on December 7th, as reported earlier by PCMag.
“Recently, global memory (RAM) prices have surged by 500% and SSD prices have risen by 100%,” CyberPowerPC says in a statement posted on X. “This has had a direct impact on the cost of building gaming PCs since 10/1/25.”
Meanwhile, Maingear is trying to stave off price increases for as long as it can. “I anticipate that the prices will continue to rise and then we will eventually have to increase our lead times as stock and allocation becomes constrained, but we are in constant communication with our vendors and will delay these increases for as long as we possibly can,” Maingear CEO Wallace Santos tells Wccftech.
The price of RAM has fluctuated greatly over the past month as AI companies buy up more RAM and data storage for their sprawling data centers. Some physical stores have resorted to pricing the components at market prices, not unlike how seafood restaurants sell the catch-of-the-day. CyberPowerPC predicts that the “price increases will be temporary,” and will go back down “when market conditions change.”
Maingear CEO Wallace Santos tells Wccftech that customers might want to start “shopping now” if they need a memory or storage upgrade. Though this may seem like another way to boost sales for Black Friday, Santos appears to be genuinely warning of an increased shortage, and says the PCs he’s selling this Black Friday have been “sheltered from these price increases.”
Skytech Gaming, another company that specializes in prebuilt and custom PCs, said in a post on Facebook that it’s “getting hit with RAM price increases too,” though it’s unclear whether these changes are impacting the prices listed on its website yet.