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After RAM and SSDs, PSUs and CPU coolers are next in line for price hikes
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this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2026
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This increase is due to the cost of copper and tin shooting up. Copper is up 45% over the past year. Coolers are basically nothing but copper. Copper is hitting record highs due to much larger economic pressures too large for a Lemmy comment. So like if you want to find untapped copper vein and start a mining company then yeah you can lower the price but that's about the only way right now.
I looked around a bit more after this site wouldn't load and it seems like you are ahead of me, you hit the real reason.
Raw material costs seems to be the primary problem.
Most coolers are aluminium actually.
Heatsink fins are aluminum. Heatpipes are usually copper. I'm sure we'll start seeing even less copper and more aluminum.