The RAM price was already inflated at that time, and the same kit is now £800, but in October or earlier last year I'd have saved possibly the cost of the CPU/GPU on the whole thing, but now it's be about the cost of a CPU/GPU more expensive.
On a side note for anyone not aware, 9950X3D isn't the best choice for pure gaming, 9850X3D is cheaper and marginally better, also I went with 2 sticks of RAM kit, 4 sticks is much harder to run at the advertised speed (6000) which is actually an overclock.
Im a dev and a linux user/gamer hence my choice of CPU/GPU.
I don't really want to run my RAM that slow which is why I'll probably stick with two sticks.
I commented because someone thought that $4K was the going price for 128GB of RAM, which is way too much even with the demand crunch.
In January I was forced to upgrade an ancient Intel NUC, by replacing it with an Arrow Lake H based ASUS NUC. The complete system with 32 GB DRAM and 3 TB SSDs has cost EUR 1200, including VAT sales tax.
The distribution of the price was like this:
Barebone mini-PC: 41%
32 GB DDR5 SODIMMs: 26%
2 TB PCIe 5.0 SSD: 24%
1 TB PCIe 4.0 SSD: 9%
Before 2026, for so small amounts of memory its cost would have been much less than the rest of the system.