Fuck ai
Holy shit
Every time I decide to upgrade my damn computer something like this happens, come on i7-5820K, just a little longer, the prices will drop any time now…
Planning to upgrade my I7-4790K for a while now… First the GPU shortage and now this…
I got 2x32 GB for 200 € in April. Seems okay for something I am going to use for 10 years again. It was a i7 4790K to Ryzen 9 7900X transition.
At those prices I will just remember things myself, thank you.
Yeah, pencil and paper is back!
Won’t someone pop this dastardly bubble? 🤬
Maybe the bubble pops you sooner. 😔
I just hope that the power plants get built then AI collapses so we get cheap power.
I think companies would rather commit seppuku than producing cheap electricity.
I’d take the seppuku too, both preferably
I needed a 32gb kit of ddr4 about 18 months ago… $80
I needed a 32gb kit of ddr4 last week, $160!!! Wtf! Okay… Let’s click order and if it drops I can just return it…
Checked this morning, $225!!!
Holy fuck!
Bought a 2tb SSD last week, $199. Checked prices this morning… $225
Looks like DDR6 is due in 2027, so DDR5 prices will start to fall in 2-3 years when all the AI bros move over to DDR6 instead.
It might be sooner, but that would mean the AI bubble popped.
Meanwhile, here I am on a PC that’s less than two years old with DDR4 in it. Works fine for my needs.
DDR4 prices also nearly doubled
I’m genuinely considering putting some cash aside in case the AI bubble does pop so I can load up on cheap PC parts if they start dumping them lol
Not really, shortage in one category spills over to the next ones as well
Got it. Buy PS5, harvest memory.
Could you actually do this? I assumed it would all be some weird proprietary hardware that wouldn’t work in a regular computer setup but I’ve never really read up on it.
I’m out of touch WRT hardware, but it looks like the PS5 uses something called GDDR memory. Your standard desktop or laptop most likely would use DDR. I’m not familiar with GDDR, though I’m guessing just based on the letters that it helps run graphics; still, it probably would not work with your tower or notebook.
I’m sure someone else in the thread can provide a more informed answer.
You also have DIMM, SODIMM, RDIMM and others which have different pinning.
The Trump Trombone.
Wow, I just went back and checked. I spent $215 for 64GB of RAM last year. I should’ve bought more!
A PS5 currently costs less than £300. I can’t even get 32GB of RAM for that, let alone a GPU or any of the other parts.
PC gaming is dead for now. The only affordable way is Steam Decks and similar.
Man I’m so tired of these skyrocketing prices over everything. Memory, GPUs, car parts, groceries, insurance… fuck. Eating us alive.
I’m glad I opted to start at 64GB ram on the PC I built about a year ago. Compared to the other parts like CPU and GPU, it felt relatively cheap to bump it up from 32GB.
Wondering if I should pull the trigger on more storage though… Don’t really need it right now but eventually I’ll probably need some.
If you don’t have immediate needs, I’d wait.
The AI payments will dry up and factories won’t know where to put it.Ah too late lol, ended up grabbing a 990 pro 2tb for $200 CAD. Looking around online, there seems to be a bunch of retailers at that price, though mostly the brick and mortar ones. I kinda thought they might be slower to react to quickly moving prices than the more specialist places (I got it from Staples).
The price sounds almoat reasonable to me.
Afaik it hovers around that price anyway the last time I looked at it.
I was literally looking prices to upgrade from 32 to 64GB last month. And i was, nah 120€ is too much, I’m ok for now. 320€ today and still climbing…
I talked myself out of upgrading to 64gb six months ago when I still could have grabbed 32gb of ddr4 for like $80… Kicking myself over that decision
In moments like this I always wonder if I should temporarily make my PC unusable by reselling the component that’s overpriced.
Then wait out the shortage and buy 4x as much RAM then x)
Almost did it with my GPU during covid.
If you’re in the USA I would wait until the dickhead in charge is gone or else you might wake up to find he told Taiwan to eat his ass and charge 600% tariffs on all goods coming from them.
I mean its a joke, but how unlikely would it be really?
I’m in Europe, so if anything that would benefit us x)
