Scavenger scores 14900KS PC with 64GB of DDR5 for less than the cost of RAM alone — $2500+ machine sells for just $600

A pawn shop PC worth $2,500 bought for just $600

(Image credit: u/uneektnt on Reddit)

While us mere mortals are stuck facing the aftermath of the AI boom with soaring DDR5 prices and dwindling inventories, a chance hunter on Reddit has bagged possibly the best deal we've seen in a while. A fully-fledged, high-end custom gaming PC with all the bells and whistles — including, most importantly, 64 GB of DDR5 RAM — that would cost at least $2,500 to build right now. Our lucky buyer? They got it for just $600 at a pawn shop, and that's negotiated down from $750!

This win was posted by u/uneektnt on the r/pcmasterrace subreddit, where they unwittingly hoped it's "decent enough for some games," not knowing the beast they'd just acquired. Specs-wise, we're looking at a Core i9-14900KS processor, the best consumer chip Intel has made to date (yes, it beats Arrow Lake). That's paired with Nvidia's RTX 4070 Ti Super, a proper 4K-capable GPU that churns through 1440p-Ultra gaming like butter.

Got this beast at the pawnshop today from r/pcmasterrace

If that weren't already crazy enough, the PC also came with 64 GB (32GB x 2) of T-Force Delta RGB 6000 MT/s memory that's sitting at a casual $689.99 on Newegg right now — so, the entire PC was cheaper than just the cost of the RAM. To put that into perspective, this exact same kit cost less than $200 a few months ago. Aside from RAM, storage has also seen massive surges but, unfortunately, u/uneektnt didn't disclose that info, though we can at least see an M.2 SSD mounted in the pictures.

Taking to PC Part Picker, kitting out a similar system turned up a value of about $1,800 without a GPU, which we left out since most RTX 4070 Ti Super variants are overpriced right now. Generally, street pricing for this card floats around the $800 mark, and the cheapest we could find was a $979 PNY model. Regardless, you're looking at over $2,500 of parts that this lucky buyer was able to snag for almost one-fifth of its worth.

With that, the duology is complete: both a PS5 and, somehow, a high-end PC are cheaper than 64 GB of DDR5 RAM. Even if memory prices weren't in a doozy, this is an incredible deal that would've cost at least twice as much in routine times. It also serves as a nice contrast to a previous story where someone traded 192 GB of memory for an RTX 5070 Ti, which is a worse deal than it sounds.

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Hassam Nasir is a die-hard hardware enthusiast with years of experience as a tech editor and writer, focusing on detailed CPU comparisons and general hardware news. When he’s not working, you’ll find him bending tubes for his ever-evolving custom water-loop gaming rig or benchmarking the latest CPUs and GPUs just for fun.

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bolweval

Man, nice score!
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Moonstick2

Where does the article writer get the idea that this was in Portugal from? The currency's marked up in $ not Euros. I couldn't find anything in the thread or the user's handle mentioning it (though I didn't look exhaustively), and the ¿Quieres un mejor precio? is Spanish not Portuguese (according to Google). Seems more likely it was some US pawn shop in a heavily Spanish-speaking area?
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ezst036

When people do not know what they have is usually where you can make these sorts of scores. It's a story in the news every six months or so someone discovers some long lost painting from a "great". Barn finds of old rare short-production-run cars. Etc
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SkyBill40

Needle in a haystack find right there. Good on him for sure; bad on the seller for being ignorant in the worst way.
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Shiznizzle

This beats those "found a 1080 TI" in a dumpster story by far. This is a steal considering DDR5 prices.

I am gonna hold off buying a MOBO till the new year. Retailers will be choking on their own goods at that point since nobody can buy DDR5. I almost plonked down 200 pounds for a mobo today and had second thoughts. I have the memory for AM5 so just need the rest now. I am in no rush
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abufrejoval

Moonstick2 said:
Where does the article writer get the idea that this was in Portugal from? The currency's marked up in $ not Euros. I couldn't find anything in the thread or the user's handle mentioning it (though I didn't look exhaustively), and the ¿Quieres un mejor precio? is Spanish not Portuguese (according to Google). Seems more likely it was some US pawn shop in a heavily Spanish-speaking area?
I'll happily go along with believing that the Portugal connection is entirely fabricated!

Handwriting on the price quite clearly indicates the US, because a 1 in Europe generally 'wears a hat' top-left, often going so low that most people from the US mistake if for a 7, which is why sevens in Europe are usually crossed at the stem to counter that misconception (conversly, to me a US 7 often appeared like a 1...).

And both "¿Quieres un mejor precio?" and "Podemos negociar" are excellent Castellano (what most of the planet mistakes labels 'Spanish', yet is just one of at least four major languages spoken in Spain), and certainly not Portuguese, which is most closely related to Spain's north-western Gallego.

While from my experience ever more Portuguese are quite capable of speaking rather excellent 'Spanish' or Castellano (at least in a business context), the two languages have grown quite apart from a common Romance root. Interestingly, the opposite isn't true, very few Spaniards seem to speak Portuguese and that to me somehow reflects the situation between German and Dutch, even in terms of how the sounds have shifted and differ in both cases.

Mutual intelligence is mostly a matter of shared interests, a few beers (or a couple of finos) generally close the gaps.
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JamesJones44

Moonstick2 said:
¿Quieres un mejor precio?
As a close to fluent Spanish speaker this translates to "You want a better Price?". The little I know of Portuguese doesn't line up for this sentence. This is most definitely Spanish, not Portuguese.

Seems more likely it was some US pawn shop in a heavily Spanish-speaking area?

Another clue is the "Podemos Negociar" sign below the computer. It's "we negotiate" in Spanish. With the English word "deals" above. So I think the theory on Spanish speaking area of the US or near US boarder Mexico, like Tijuana makes sense.
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abufrejoval

JamesJones44 said:
Another clue is the "Podemos Negociar" sign below the computer. It's "we negotiate" in Spanish. With the English word "deals" above. So I think the theory on Spanish speaking area of the US or near US boarder Mexico, like Tijuana makes sense.
Apart from "we can negotiate", I guess the most important bit is that it says "1 of 2": so there was, at least at the point the picture was taken, another identical system!

I'd hazard to conject it's long gone...
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