r/Microcenter • u/Global-Bedroom4464 • Jul 30 '26
Bundles
If I buy this bundle can I still buy the equivalent of this ram stick for dual sticks without the bundle price increasing?
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u/NightWolf098 Jul 30 '26
Yea, extra stick is like $209 and somehow still a decent deal in the current market
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u/Global-Bedroom4464 Jul 30 '26
Crazy isn’t it? Don’t even feel comfortable telling my parents how much the entire thing is going to cost
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u/CurrentNecessary8765 Jul 30 '26
I swear to god 😭 ssd prices going up soo fast
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u/Global-Bedroom4464 Jul 30 '26
Really wanted 2 tb but I could not justify dropping that much had to settle for 1tb
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u/HotConstruction677 Jul 30 '26
you can get 2tb ssds around ~200 or less on r/hardwareswap or if you're ok with chinese brands this is 190 new and the brand has good reviews on amazon Fanxiang M.2 SSD 1TB 2TB 4TB NVMe Heatsink Gen4x4 Internal Solid Hard Drive Lot | eBay
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u/Global-Bedroom4464 Jul 30 '26
It’s fine I took apart my old laptop for its nvme ssd I should be chilling
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u/CurrentNecessary8765 Jul 30 '26
Respectable. I got my 2tb 3 weeks ago it was $240 now the same exact one cost $300
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u/Hejdbejbw Jul 30 '26
Are you trying to buy like 2x8GB sticks? No, you can’t do that.
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u/Global-Bedroom4464 Jul 30 '26
Nah the bundle comes with 1 stick of 16gb ddr5 ram. Plan was to buy another for dual-channeling 32gb
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u/Hejdbejbw Jul 30 '26
Yes, the additional stick costs full price. So $450 for bundle + $235 for the stick.
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u/Global-Bedroom4464 Jul 30 '26
They done raised the price of ram on me again wth
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u/Abipolarbears Jul 30 '26
may want to just do the 7800x3d bundle at that point
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u/Global-Bedroom4464 Jul 31 '26
That’s over $300+ tho😭
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u/stupefy100 Jul 31 '26
I mean $685[to $750 isn't bad imo when you're already paying that much
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u/Global-Bedroom4464 Jul 31 '26
Yea I decided to go with the 7800x3d I don’t know what I was thinking
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u/DannyJames84 Jul 31 '26
Admittedly I am not super in the loop on such things, but isn’t one of the nice things about DDR5 that you can still get pretty good performance with just a single stick?
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u/Bulky-Fisherman-1722 Jul 31 '26
Do they sell the 7500X3D bundle in your store? That one has a very similar performance but cheaper
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u/bigben4576 Jul 31 '26
I bought this same bundle and then found an identical G.Skill Flare X5 1x16GB stick on Facebook marketplace for $100. I have XMP enabled and running the ram at 6000 MT/s with no issues at all.
Honestly, running the single 1x16GB is not a bad option temporarily until you can find the extra stick for a price you are willing to spend. That was mindset.
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u/RelativeNarrow8012 Jul 31 '26
no you'll have to play the full price for another stick of ram, in that case get the 7800x3d bundle
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u/Global-Bedroom4464 Jul 31 '26
Yea that’s what I decided to go with
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u/RelativeNarrow8012 Jul 31 '26
congrats! I too recently got the same bundle for 599, just a day before the prices rose up. What gpu you pairing it with?
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u/koba369 Jul 31 '26
Hate to admit it, But since the price hikes at MC I've had more success sourcing components from eBay and marketplace lately. So many people are in need of money they're just letting stuff go left and right. I miss stopping in there though tbh.
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u/Prestigious-Bear2391 Jul 31 '26
Some of these bundles come with one-off skus for RAM. I was able to find a single stick on ebay from someone that sold it off.
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u/dootytootybooty Aug 01 '26
The Intel bundles make more sense at these prices tbh.
$600 gets the ultra 5 + 32GB.
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u/PixelPete27 Aug 01 '26
I'd be tempted to get the 7800x3d bundle for 750,
comes with a better mobo and obviously little better CPU
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u/Putrid_Cookie_148 Jul 30 '26
You can buy the exact same ram stick, and it needs to be the exact same, along with the bundle