Prebuilt PC maker CyberPower said Wednesday that it will be raising prices after the Black Friday holiday sales season, a response to the stratospheric price hikes in the PC memory market.
Experts have said recently that the best time to upgrade your PC is right now, as AI hyperscalers gobbled up the supply of DRAM and SSDs like teenagers at Thanksgiving dinner. CyberPower said that it’s feeling the pinch, too.
“Recently, global memory (RAM) prices have surged by 500% and SSD prices have risen by 100%,” CyberPower said in a post on Twitter.com. “This has had a direct impact on the cost of building gaming PCs since 10/1/2025. As a result, CyberPowerPC will begin price adjustments on all systems on Dec. 7, 2025.”
The PC builder didn’t say on what systems it would adjust prices, or what those price adjustments would be. Retailers have already seen sharp price increases in both the expiring DDR4 and current DDR5 memory, enough that some retailers are treating RAM like a high-end steak and refusing to quote anything but a “market” price.
There is some hope. “We hear your concerns! We will always aim to give you the best value for your gaming PC needs. Price increases will be temporary, rest assured they will adjust back accordingly when market conditions change,” the company said in a followup post, as noted by Tom’s Hardware.
So far, other PC makers haven’t followed suit and indicated that price hikes are arriving. But we’re already starting to see PC makers try to reconcile holding prices while dealing with increasing component costs: Framework for example, is halting the sale of standalone RAM.
With Black Friday and Cyber Monday around the corner, experts have told PCWorld to keep an eye out for deals where items like software and subscriptions are bundled with hard-to-find components like memory and graphics cards as a way of “increasing” the value. PCWorld editors are monitoring the best desktop PC deals like hawks, though, and the same goes for the best SSD deals, too.
Still, grab what you can get while you can get it. So far, the consensus still seems to be that it’s bad… and will be getting worse.
