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Building a PC in 2026 is a daunting prospect thanks to a massive AI price crunch on SSDs and RAM, but if you know where to look, you can still build a decent gaming PC without blowing your whole budget on 32GB of DDR5. Right now, at Newegg, you can get 32GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5 for the relative price of just $240 when paired with an Asus ROG Strix motherboard, in this $639 bundle . That's a saving of $245 on the list price of this RAM, and crucially it's a lot cheaper than the $369 going rate for RAM right now.

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The Asus ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming Wi-Fi motherboard has a list price of $399, so subtracting that from the overall cost of the bundle means you're paying a relative price of $240 for the RAM. It's certainly not 2025 prices, but this is the new norm for RAM, unfortunately.…