Memory pricing stopped behaving normally during 2026. The three companies that make DRAM have redirected wafer capacity toward high-bandwidth memory for AI accelerators, and a bit of that memory consumes roughly three times the wafer area of a bit of DDR5, so consumer supply tightened sharply. Module prices rose by most of a doubling inside a single quarter, and the reference figure a percentage discount is measured against moved with them.

That changes what a good buy looks like. Cost per gigabyte across comparable kits is a more useful number than the size of the reduction, one validated kit is worth more than a plan to add modules later, and heatspreader height still decides whether a kit clears the cooler. Evetech ships memory from Centurion, reaching the major centres in one to three business days and regional addresses in three to five.